Jacob Elordi has detailed the punishing behind-the-scenes reality of shooting the last, gut-wrenching moments for his character Nate Jacobs on Euphoria, describing how enduring days sealed inside a coffin—complete with prosthetics, a fake tongue, and a live snake—became one of the toughest stretches of his career.
Jacob Elordi opens up on the “Euphoria” finale shoot
The Australian actor spoke about the ordeal during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he sat down with the show’s weekly guest host and Euphoria co-star Colman Domingo.
Elordi addressed the series’ controversial end for Nate Jacobs, explaining that the story wraps up in the season finale with a terrifying death. Nate is buried alive and bitten by a rattlesnake, a sequence that viewers watched unfold with dread and shock.
What it took to film the coffin and snake sequence
Rather than dwelling only on the emotional impact of Nate’s fate, Elordi focused on the physical challenge of filming it, walking through what the set-up looked and felt like.
- He said he was “locked in a coffin” for two straight days, wearing prosthetics and a fake tongue.
- He added that he couldn’t see out of his eyes while in the rig.
- He recalled that the person in charge later placed snakes into the coffin, turning the setup into a truly intense endurance challenge.
Rattlesnake vs. boa constrictor: the creature details
Even though the scene is built around a rattlesnake, Elordi clarified that a boa constrictor was also part of the filming. He said he wasn’t overly worried once he understood what was involved.
- Elordi explained that the production used a rattlesnake, but that a boa constrictor was involved as well.
- He insisted he was “fine with it,” sharing that the animal didn’t act the way many would expect.
- He described the snake as having a calm temperament—“very docile” and “very sleepy”—and said it seemed more comfortable curling up than being aggressive.
- He said he kept trying to encourage the animal to be active for the scene, but it kept settling down at his feet.
He also explained the logistics of how the snake was introduced: once it entered through a tube, it quickly found a warm spot and settled in.
“He jumped down the tube, and he sort of slithered down, and then he found a little warm spot,” Elordi said.
Colman Domingo’s reaction and Elordi’s joke about “torture”
After hearing the details, Domingo admitted he never would have agreed to shoot under those conditions.
“No, I couldn’t do that,” he responded.
Elordi then leaned into the irony of Nate Jacobs finally receiving some audience sympathy—though, as he put it, it came in a painful way. He joked that Euphoria creator Sam Levinson seemed to bring him right back to suffering.
Laughing, Elordi quipped that Levinson “brought me back to torture me,” adding that the experience felt like weeks of intense physical conflict.
“It was just six weeks of me getting beaten by a seven-foot guy,” he said.
