season 2, Cal Jacobs (Eric Dane) goes on quite the journey, as audiences learn more about his past and watch him completely unravel in the present.
Essentially, Cal is “becoming undone,” the 49-year-old actor tells ET as he opens up about the character’s alcohol-fueled meltdown, his toxic relationship with his son, Nate (Jacob Eldori), and wearing another prosthetic penis for the series.
While Cal has been slowly unraveling this entire time, it wasn’t until episodes 3 and 4 (both written and directed by creator Sam Levinson) that he completely loses it – with things ending “in epic, dumpster fire of a way,” Dane says of his epic meltdown.
He adds, “I didn’t know where it was going, but it certainly made sense to me.” Before things take an incredibly dark turn, episode 3 (“Ruminations: Big and Little Bullys”) opens with a surprisingly heartfelt, if not heartbreaking flashback to Cal’s high school days as a teenage wrestler (played by Elias Kacavas) and the son of an overbearing father who loves nothing more than spending time with his best friend, Derek (Henry Eikenberry).
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