“My first response was: ‘But, what about Maddy?’” the actress recalled. In a Euphoria behind-the-scenes featurette, Sweeney recalled the first moment creator Sam Levinson told her about the “crazy” Cassie and Nate story line. Once at the party, the two proceed to hook up in the bathroom. Nate finds the inebriated Cassie in a gas station parking lot where he offers her beer and a ride.

Reeling from her abortion and subsequent split from Christopher McKay ( Algee Smith), Cassie gets drunk before a New Year’s Eve party which leads to a fight with her sister, Lexi ( Maude Apatow). Nate and Cassie start their love story in the season 2 premiere, which aired in January 2022. “You also feel like when your parents or any adult is trying to tell you what to do, you want to rebel against that, and she definitely wants to rebel and just be with Nate.”īy the end of season 1, the characters realize that they’re not good for each other and eventually break up. Despite what you see on camera - I know we show a lot of the toxic parts of the relationship - but there’s also been the good parts of the relationship,” Demie told THR.

“She doesn’t want him to go to jail - he’s her boyfriend. Amid their reconciliation, the pair had an extremely violent altercation in which Nate chokes Maddy.

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