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Euphoria fans were sent into a frenzy as Sydney Sweeney posed and smouldered for the camera in the new trailer for the HBO show’s third series.
It comes four years after the second season of the hit programme, which stars the likes of Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Maude Apatow, Colman Domingo and Sydney.
Viewers have long been waiting to catch up with the characters and, on Monday, HBO finally dropped the trailer for what’s to be expected from series three.
It left fans hot under the collar as Sydney, 28, who plays Cassie, was seen posing in a red bikini as her character does some risque modelling.
‘Poke the a** up,’ Maddy, played by Alexa, 35, can be heard encouraging her as Sydney poses for a seductive snap on the back of a poolside lounge chair.
Posing on her hands and knees, she’s seen bending back and forth as she locks eyes with the camera, held by Maddy.
It’s not the only saucy pose struck by Sydney in the trailer, as later she is seen looking down the camera lens draped in what appears to be just an American flag.
She gives a wink to the camera as the close-up showcases her bright make-up.
Elsewhere, only the silhouette of her body is visible as she is seen shaking her hips and splaying her legs in front of a bright white screen.
The trailer has teased much of the drama to come for Euphoria’s troubled characters, including Zendaya’s drug addict teen character, Rue.
This time, she is seen sitting in a police interrogation room while she is asked if she has ‘ever been to Mexico’ by two officers.
While she shakes off the question, footage then shows Rue walking through streets in Mexico before being asked to smuggle balls of white powder by swallowing them whole and returning to the US.
It looks as though her antics will be catching up with her, as she’s later seen being pulled over by a police car, as a voice rings out: ‘I can see you’re a good kid in a bad situation.’
The trailer then cuts to Rue breaking down in tears in the interrogation room.
Elsewhere, Hunter’s Jules is seen meeting up with a string of older men – including Cal Jacobs who is played by the late Eric Dane, who passed away in February at the age of 53 from ALS.
Wuthering Heights star Jacob appears to be missing out on his marital bliss as Nate alongside new wife Cassie as, after they tie the knot, he learns she and his ex-girlfriend Maddy are working together.
Meanwhile, shots show him battered and bruised, suggesting he’s been in a nasty fight, as well as his home being broken into.
In the preview – which has a five-year time jump – the real estate agent-turned-convict Cal donned a dapper suit and unexpectedly reunited with transgender sex worker Jules.
Dane’s closeted character slept with the then-teenager at a motel during the very first episode of Euphoria, and the resulting video of their sexual encounter became blackmail material throughout the first two seasons.
Cal and Jules’s reconnection appears to happen during the lavish wedding of his son Nate to his high school sweetheart, Cassie.
During the reception, an intimidating man is seen threatening the bride and groom: ‘I used to be your husband’s friend. I’m gonna make him his worst f***ing nightmare.’
Nate is later seen screaming, ‘I’m trying to do a good thing!’ after getting attacked during a home invasion.
It was him who called the police on Cal, who was arrested in the second season finale and, considering the average sentence for felony child pornography in California is three years in state prison, Cal could easily be out by season three.
But the trailer is dominated by Zendaya’s Emmy-winning turn as regretful drug addict Rue Bennett, who has dangerous dealers and assassins pursuing her.
‘In the beginning, we had to make a choice about who we were and what we wanted,’ Rue said in the voiceover.
‘But what we didn’t realise was how far we were willing to go. After all these years, have we finally gone too far? I’ve done a lot of evil, and I never really thought about it. In the end, no matter who you are or what you want, we all answer to God.’
Sam Levinson’s fuelled drama also welcomed newcomers Sharon Stone, Rosalia, Marshawn Lynch and Kadeem Hardison in the new season.
Dane had already lost the function of his dominant right arm when he shot his Euphoria scenes in April last year.
‘I’ve shot already. It’s good,’ the Actor Award winner told E! News in June.
‘I’m going to ride this till the wheels fall off. It keeps me sharp. It keeps me moving forward, which is super important right now.’
Back in 2022, Dane predicted to Variety: ‘There’s gonna be redemption. I mean, that’s the trajectory he’s on… I would think moving forward, there would be some healing between [Cal and Nate].’
The San Francisco-born star’s autobiography My Book Of Days: A Memoir In Moments is scheduled to hit shelves November 3, and he was ‘working on the manuscript right up to’ his passing.
Available for $32 presale, Dane’s memoir is ‘told through a series of “days” that each illuminate a defining experience or emotional truth’ as well as the ‘”future days” that would come after he was gone’.
Proceeds will likely benefit the Countdown star’s two daughters – Billie, 16, and Georgia, 14 – with Rebecca Gayheart, with the couple having called off their divorce in 2025 after seperating in 2018.
The GoFundMe page set up by family friends to ‘provide stability now and in the future’ for Dane’s children is still receiving donations, with the total on Monday reaching $490,010 from a $500,000 goal.
The 54-year-old widow is listed as the beneficiary.
On average, ALS patients live two to five years following their first symptoms, but FDA-approved medications and physical/speech therapies might slow down the progression of the disorder.
The Kabul actor famously got his big break portraying plastic surgeon Mark ‘McSteamy’ Sloan from 2006–2021 on the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy.
Euphoria returns to HBO on April 12 and is available to stream on Sky and NOW in the UK.
