When actors play villains, they often end up seeing the story through their characters' eyes, which can get complicated when the character is a monster. Villains, after all, are the heroes of their own stories and have their own goals and challenges, but, unlike other TV villains, Euphoria character Nate Jacobs pretty much fits the description of a psychopath, as he can be abusive and physically violent, blackmailing, lying, expressing sociopathy, and displaying narcissistic rage in Euphoria.

But Jacob Elordi, who plays Nate, doesn't think that his character is an actual psychopath. Talking to TheWrap, Elordi said, "I think he's like an incredibly traumatized little boy," noting, "I just played off the circumstances of him being a victim of abuse, in a way." Elordi went on, "His dad physically hurts him, he mentally hurts him, he's messed up his whole interpretation of what it is to be functioning human being. So I didn't really come at it with any medical assessment of him, just a human being dealing with what it would be like [under] those circumstances."