Eric Dane talks about letting years of Cal Jacobs' fermenting toxic masculinity culminate in one powerful piss.
It was inevitable that Cal Jacobs ( Eric Dane ) would reach a breaking decimal point onthis seasonofEuphoria . On top of shield a lifetime ’s worth of shame and anger , he found himself catch in the crosshairs of the double life that he ’s kept from his family . Now that he ’s aware that the tape of his violent encounter with the underaged Jules ( Hunter Schafer ) is out of his hands , and his Word Nate ( Jacob Elordi ) disappointed him by failing to remedy the position , Cal began to desperately wrestle ascendance over the billet himself . All that end up getting him , though , is stick up by teenage drug dealers and pushed to the edge .
After render and failing ( like father , like son ) to salvage his reputation as a ostensibly perfect suburban dad , Episode 4 break all there was left for Cal to do was to at long last accept his indistinguishability and , apparently , pee all over the entryway of the Jacobs ' sign of the zodiac in front of his sept . " I thought it was brilliant . I could n’t wait for the scene , " Eric Dane recalls when he first say the script for the episode , style " You Who Can not See , believe of Those Who Can . "
The golden Cal Jacobs here and now comes after a night of unreasonable imbibition that forces him to face his past tense and who he is read/write head - on . ( Episode 3 , " musing : braggart and Little Bullys , " also revealed the extent of his repression and deeply lonely life story . ) After drink at home and belittling Nate , who he bizarrely calls " the big swinging dick , Mr. Big Balls , " he drives under the influence to a bar where his good friend from gamey school Derek ( Henry Eikenberry ) admitted that romantic feelings between them were mutual . He ’s overwhelmed by his emotions , due to both the leaden crapulence and the fact that he has n’t been back to the billet in 20 - some years — the last time he was at that Browning automatic rifle was the night before he find out that his then - girlfriend , now - wife , Marsha was pregnant . After dancing with a vernal human , who he fantasizes is Derek , and attempting to pick a wrestling match like the two might ’ve done in their teens , he gets kick out , only to drive home and continue his aggressive behavior by letting it rain once he walks in the door .
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" It was fun and relinquish [ filming the view ] , " says Dane . " I tried to stay as present as I could so I could keep it as loose as it could be . " And he emphatically did keep it loose : Cal literally walks in circles , wee all over the hardwood story , and has to be told by Marsha ( Paula Marshall)multipletimes to put his penis aside once she make out out of her room and retrieve him .
Being one of the only other people in the scene , Jacob Elordi says , " It was one of those time where I just stood there and this man came through the door , and from the fucking get , it was like you had to stand back and see because he had it by the fucking orb and just move through it . "
so as to develop for the view , Dane enjoin he spent all day mouth to Elordi , Marshall , and Zak Steiner ( who plays Aaron Jacobs ) , who were " super supportive . " Although the scene is hysteric — especially with lines like , " I ’m a man . I ’m an creature . I ’m a motherfucking Rottweiler , " which he says after he’smarked his territory — it ’s ultimately about a adult male plead to his family to empathize how alone he feels , and admitting to himself what an dreadful mortal he ’s become . Of course , he does n’t do so graciously — pointing out his nipper ’s flaws , pick them for not letting him exhibit any emotion , and just generally being filthy — but it ’s sure as shooting Cal Jacobs like we ’ve never seen him before .
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After they wrapped shooting the scene , Elordi say , " I went home and I called my mum and I was like , ' I am pretty sure I just witnessed one of the great functioning of our time ' … I sat back and was like , ' I think today I ’m incredibly favourable to have stood here and seen that fall out in front of me . ' " Even now , he ’s still not over Dane ’s functioning . " It ’s something I ’ve thought about from the whole time of year . There ’s a duet scenes I ’ve thought about , but this one you ’re watch something special , and that ’s a material treat . "
In a show likeEuphoriathat always leaves you aghast , it ’s by all odds a standout moment , right up to when Cal calls the puddle he ’s left something his kids can remember him by and allege , " You dickwads can draw straws and see who cleanse it up , " before walk out the doorway . After years of bottle up his impression , an uncapped energy radiate throughout the panorama — culminate into one powerful , toxic piss .
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