2022 Rewind: Jacob Elordi Opens Up about Baring it all on 'Euphoria'

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Jacob Elordi joined his "Euphoria" co-star Sidney Sweeney in discussing the nudity on the hit HBO show.

Jacob Elordi appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Wednesday where the host joked that he's naked during most of his scenes. She then asked if he was consulted before filming the nude scenes, The Independent reported.

"You have no choice," Elordi responded. "Every scene is like, 'He sleeps with this person. He does this with this person naked.'"

He went on to add that the crew on set has been the same since the first season, so getting naked in front of them "is like getting naked in front of your family."

He added: "It's always weird." However, the Australian actor explained that "the nakedness comes with the territory of the character."

He went on to describe Nate Jacobs as "this ultra-masculine, macho jock. Those guys, I think, tend to go around pretty shirtless, so it's sort of OK."

He said he gets great support from the on-set intimacy coordinator, who he says is "like a second mother" and frequently checks in with them.

"She's like, 'Are you comfortable? Are you OK?' to the point where you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm fine,'" Elordi said.

On the show, Nate is a troubled high schooler in the midst of relationship troubles and family trauma. Spoiler alert: On the show's two-episode finale, his character was ridiculed for perhaps being closeted and, more tellingly, turned his father Cal (Eric Dane) over to the police for pedophilia. For some time, Nate knew his father was having sex with underaged partners – including Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schafer) – but protected him.

His relationship issues center on having broken up with Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie) and dating her best friend Cassie Howard (Sweeney) behind her back. When Maddy finds out, it leads to a rift between Cassie and her. He also breaks up with Cassie after seeing the way her sister Lexi Howard (Maude Apatow) portrays him in an autobiographical play performed at the high school.

In a Variety interview, Elordi opened up about his approach to playing Nate. "I don't see him as like the villain who comes in to ruin the hero's day. Everything he does is kind of relative to his own situation. Even when it comes down to Jules – it's because of his dad. If Rue is the protagonist, I don't see Nate as the antagonist. I think everyone's in their own trauma and fighting through something. And yeah, his means are fucking awful and terrible to watch. And sometimes the score makes him sound like a bit of a villain."

He also said he wrote a journal in which he created Nate's backstory. "I have journals and journals of information and stories that blend pieces of my life and made-up memories of his life, just in my own space and time."

He told Variety that he doesn't think of Nate in terms of his sexuality. "I always approach it in terms of family. I think the sexuality thing is born from his not having a relationship with his father, or not having the relationship he thinks he should have with his father and mother. The birth of everyone's sexuality, in a way, I think, is based off of one's relationship with their parents. So I think it's less about this kind of poppy social thing where everyone wants to be like, 'Is Nate gay? Is he this, is he that?' It's deeper than that. This is just a kid who needs a dad, but everything his dad is being is terrifying, so he wants to be the opposite of that."

For her part, Sweeney spoke out about a double-standard between the sexes in the way the media deals with onscreen nudity. //www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/sydney-sweeney-white-lotus-euphoria-b1997058.htmlIn an earlier Independent interview, she said there is "a stigma against actresses who get naked on screen."

"When a guy has a sex scene or shows his body, he still wins awards and gets praise. But the moment a girl does it, it's completely different."

She also discussed her comfort level with Sam Levinson, "Euphoria's" creator and showrunner, about the nudity. "(T)here are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, 'I don't really think that's necessary here.' He was like, 'OK, we don't need it.' I've never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show. When I didn't want to do it, he didn't make me."