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Redeeming Love and Euphoria Star Eric Dane Loves Playing the “Misunderstood” Villain
Eric Dane is a foul man in two productions proper now — and he is f*cking good at it. In the event you’re on Twitter, you understand Dane’s character, Cal Jacobs, on Euphoria is public enemy primary. And should you make it to the movie show quickly, you will additionally hate his character, Duke, in Redeeming Love. Each of Dane’s roles entail males overcompensating for his or her masculinity in a manner that degrades and punishes girls. In actual life, he is fairly humorous and carefree. POPSUGAR spoke to Dane about taking over darkish characters and having compassion for them.
“It is a number of enjoyable enjoying the dangerous man. You get to do all these actually mischievous sort of amoral, heinous [things and] discover these behaviors and never must cope with real-world penalties,” Dane shares, later saying with fun, “Oh, it is enjoyable to be dangerous.”
Because it pertains to Redeeming Love, the 49-year-old actor performs a pedophile who grooms younger ladies into prostitution. “On this specific movie, [Duke] is the dangerous man. He’s a foul man. He’s a rotten human being. . . I used to be a bit repulsed by the character, not the story clearly, however the character and the context of the story and who he was. And I attempted all the pieces I might to not do that,” he admits, including that he in the end took on the position as a result of he loves director D.J. Caruso and the remainder of the solid.
“I believe this character was drunk on his personal energy, and it ended up being his demise ultimately.”
He provides, “I believe this character was drunk on his personal energy, and it ended up being his demise ultimately. He felt like he was untouchable. He felt like he type of ran the city. And it ended up biting him ultimately.”
In relation to being the dangerous man, Dane says he prefers “antagonist,” giving his characters extra depth. “I additionally similar to to throw across the phrase misunderstood,” he says. “Euphoria is a complete completely different ball of wax. I believe Cal’s a bit . . . He is a bit extra difficult than that.” Euphoria episode three goes extra into element about his character’s backstory. Cal is unlikeable within the current day, however the suppression of his sexuality and strict upbringing resulted in him repeating the cycle. Do I perceive Cal extra? Sure. Do I sympathize with him? Let’s not go that far.
