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21st January 2024
01:49pm GMT
With all of the hype around big-screen hits such as Saltburn and Priscilla, you would be forgiven for forgetting that Jacob Elordi still has unfinished business on the small screen.
The actor stars as 18-year-old Nate Jacobs on the HBO TV drama, which is expected to premiere in 2025.
While filming has yet to get underway, the 26-year-old has some reservations about reclaiming his role in season three.
When appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Elordi admitted that he feels his age may not make sense when playing Nate if filming doesn't get underway soon.
"I hope [filming is] soon, otherwise they're going to have to Benjamin Button me or something," he told the host.
"I'm going to have, like, a bad back, walking down the hallway."
The Saltburn star then discussed the speculation that season three will include a time-jump which will see the characters as adults, rather than as high school students.
"I'm assuming that we're going to have to go forward. Otherwise, it's going to seem like a weird bit."
Elordi will rejoin a cast of major names, such as Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Maude Apatow, Hunter Schafer, and Alexa Demi.
Sadly, his co-star, Angus Cloud, who played Fezo, lost his life last July.
Season two of the Sam Levinson-directed series ended after Lexi's (Apatow) play exposed her sisters and friends' real-life antics on stage.
Cassie, Lexi's sister, played by Sweeney, is reeling from her split from Nate and the demise of her friendship with Maddie (Demi), with the two coming to somewhat of a blow on stage after the play.
Nate's anger towards his father for his sex deviancy comes to a head after he departs from the East Highland auditorium and loads a revolver in his car.
While he finally receives an apology from his father, Cal (Eric Dane), for all the years of trauma he inflicted on him, Nate responds by pulling a gun and a flash drive on him.
He tells his father he is after 'revenge' for abandoning their family and for all of the sexual encounters and footage, taken without consent, and reveals he has it all saved on the drive.
Police sirens blare in the distance, and the season ends with Nate seeing his father taken into police custody.
Jules (Schafer) tells Rue (Zendaya) that she loves her following their fallout and Rue's intervention, with Rue responding with a kiss on her forehead, leaving viewers questioning their relationship going forward.
Elsewhere, Fezco's (Cloud) final scene sees him watch his brother, Ashtray (Jason Walton), killed by a S.W.A.T. team for the murder of Mouse (Meeko Gattuso), after suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach.
Fez and Faye (Chloe Cherry) are taken away in handcuffs, while his love note to Lexi sits, bloodstained, amongst the ruins of the house.
