♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ JACOB ELORDI:
I play Nate Jacobs, who is,
I suppose on the surface level, this kind of ultra-violent,
obnoxious jock-type. And he's kinda just like this
really frightened little boy,
in an enormous, aggressive body. You're a strong man, Nathaniel,
and you have an iron will. I've always admired that in you
because someday it will lead you
to greatness. (ROARING) When I was, uh,
developing the character and putting it all together, I have this journal,
and his father was, like, the centerpiece
of the entire journal. I had this-- this big photo
of Eric Dane in the middle of the book and then I would sort of form
everything around it. Y-- You see
at the start of episode two from an incredibly young age,
Nate has been obsessed with sort of,
his dad's secret life and it's kind of formed
everything about him. Y'know, he has no idea
what a normal family
is supposed to look like. I guess Jules is kind of like
the ultimate threat. In a very literal sense
she is the thing that has been plaguing
his life, essentially, since he's been
watching these tapes, so literally,
she is physically the problem. Um, and then also she kind of
poses a threat to masculinity, and to order,
and to everything that is
conventional and straight. So I think Jules is...
is terrifying to him. All right, let's fucking go! JACOB: When we were doing
football practice, I talked to
the quarterback coaches that sort of
talked me through it and they told me that when
a quarterback is on the field, they look at the line-up and if someone
from the other team moves over there, they-- their brains go
into overdrive, and they know-- Like, they'll shuffle someone
from there to there. Like, they're always, like,
staying ahead of it, and they're always
sort of proactive, and I kind of took that
into everything that... that-- that Nate does. I would sort
of play all the scenes, and play everything as if it was like...
it was like a football game, as if there was something
that... he was just like trying
to stay ahead of everything and it was... It was kind of
like chess pieces. Anyone ever tried to hurt you,
I'd kill them. You're like
the sweetest guy ever. I think the thing with Maddie,
what is really interesting, he's incredibly vulnerable
when he's around her. She is this part of his life... She's kind of like
this safe place, and then
when it got taken away from him, it almost feels like
the ultimate betrayal. The sort of--
The power complex with him and girls comes from that thing
of needing to win, and needing to be strong
and if he can... If he can dominate them
and if he can own them, then he can
keep everything in order and he can keep it the way
that it's supposed to be, which is straight and...
d'you know what I mean? And conventional
and, like, if he can keep it
down those lines... then everything will be okay,
and he won't end up
like his dad. So when things
don't go that way is when he starts to get, like,
super aggressive and-- and-- and super angry. <i> ♪ Oh! ♪</i> -I'm gonna hurt you.
-No, no, no, no. Yeah. And you're not
gonna press charges, because if you do
you're gonna go to jail for a lot longer than I will. -Please.
-Depending on what I do to you. I think, sort of, deep down, what he's really
looking for is-- is... is for the freedom to, like,
to be able to-- to... to be like-- to be like Jules,
to be like... everyone else. The freedom
to be able to let it go, and sort of not have this...
this crushing burden that's sort of weighing him down
all the time. I think his, like... ultimate thing
that he would be looking for would be for someone to tell him
that like, that it's okay. ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES, ENDS) ♪
