Euphoria Season 3 began filming in early 2025 after several delays. The third and final season is said to follow the main characters' lives after high school. Recently, during a Deadline interview, Maude Apatow, who plays Lexi, Cassie’s younger sister and Rue’s childhood best friend, teased about her character in Season 3.
When asked to describe her character in one word, Apatow quipped,
"Ambitious."
Laughing, she further added:
"Yeah, she is going for it."
More on this in our story.
Euphoria Season 3: Maude Apatow describes her character in the upcoming season
The previous season, which premiered in January 2022, ended with Lexi’s play. The play showed major events from the lives of the teenagers. From their friendships to their struggles, through Lexi’s perspective.
Apatow’s Lexi is one of the important characters in the psychological teen drama. She struggled with self-confidence in the previous 2 seasons, which she tried to break away from with her high school play. Her recent comments come as exciting news for her character.
As per her comment, Lexi, in Euphoria Season 3, might not be the self-doubting character that we have seen previously. The word “ambitious” suggests that she might have begun her journey toward making her dreams come true. Furthermore, there are also rumors that Lexi might be working on a late-night series in Season 3.
Although no such narrative is confirmed yet, Apatow’s comments hint that Lexi’s storyline will be about her breaking away from her shell and striving to fulfill her ambitions.
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More about Euphoria Season 3
Euphoria Season 3 is expected to release in 2026 on HBO. Zendaya will be reprising her role as Rue for the final season. Maude Apatow, Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney, Eric Dane, and Jacob Elordi will also be seen in the series.
The previous season ended with Sweeney’s Cassie and Demie’s Maddy fighting on stage during Lexi’s play. Furthermore, it also showcased Elordi’s character, Nate, reporting his father to the police. While Rue was still struggling with her addiction and trying to be sober.
In Season 3 of the HBO series, a time jump will be introduced to depict the lives of the teenagers as adults. While talking to the Hollywood Reporter in 2022, Zendaya shared how excited she was to see where her character would end up after high school. She wants to explore Rue’s difficult sobriety journey in the later years of her life after high school.
She stated:
"I think it’ll be exciting to explore the characters out of high school. I want to see what Rue looks like in her sobriety journey, how chaotic that might look."
She further added:
"But also with all the characters, in the sense where they’re trying to figure out what to do with their lives when high school is over and what kind of people they want to be."
Keep reading Soap Central for more updates on Euphoria Season 3.