Eli Roth’s Weird Euphoria Season 3 Cameo, Defined

Do not decide up any aspect hustles if you have not watched the season 3 premiere of “Euphoria.” Spoilers forward!

The third season of “Euphoria” is right here, and as followers meet up with acquainted characters like Rue Bennett (Zendaya), Maddy Perez (Alexia Demie), and Nate Jacobs (recently-minted Oscar nominee Jacob Elordi), they need to put together for some cameos. One in every of them occurs fairly early within the season 3 premiere — and because the credit inform us, the particular person behind this frankly unusual cameo is filmmaker and actor Eli Roth.

So how, particularly, does Roth present up? Straight away, we study that Rue is a drug mule for Laurie (Martha Kelly), the drug vendor she appeared to evade again in season 2. She owes Laurie a very staggering amount of cash and is at present bringing again luggage of illicit substances from Mexico for Laurie to promote to her prospects. (The sequence the place Rue … ingests these luggage is among the grossest issues I’ve seen on “Euphoria,” which is saying one thing on condition that this can be a fairly vomit-soaked present throughout the board.) Rue’s aspect hustle, although, is working as an Uber driver. Within the season 3 premiere, we see her driving round a rideshare buyer in a full Batman masks who complains, in a deep voice, about how Los Angeles is experiencing against the law increase. He then exits the automotive and joins a number of different costumed superheroes, together with Surprise Lady and Robin, on a busy Hollywood road.

Based on the credit, “Batman” is performed by Roth. Reviews did floor that he’d be becoming a member of the forged, nevertheless it undoubtedly looks like he is conserving his look small and unusual.

Once more, we realized again in October 2025 that Eli Roth would present up within the third (and perhaps remaining?) season of “Euphoria” alongside different stars like Natasha Lyonne, Danielle Deadwyler, and Sharon Stone, however this transient and admittedly weird cameo could be all we get from him — which is sensible, contemplating that Roth primarily works behind the digital camera. I described him as an “actor” earlier than as a result of, on a really technical degree, he is; apart from “Euphoria,” he is made cameos in his personal motion pictures like “Hostel” and ones directed by his buddy Quentin Tarantino. His most notable function was in Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” the place Roth performs a vigilante referred to as the “Bear Jew” who assaults Nazis with a baseball bat).

Roth is finest recognized, although, for writing, directing, and producing slasher and horror motion pictures like  “Cabin Fever,” “Thanksgiving,” and “The Inexperienced Inferno.” Most just lately he co-write and directed the 2024 adaptation of the massively in style online game “Borderlands,” which was a vital and business flop (although Roth has some concepts about what went mistaken with it).

Talking to Deadline about his look in “Euphoria” season 3, Roth mentioned that creator and showrunner Sam Levinson is a pal of his and he’d had “an unbelievable expertise” working with Levinson on his drama collection “The Idol.” The Batman cameo took place in a reasonably easy approach: “[Levinson] known as me and he mentioned, ‘I’ve bought one thing for you,’ so in fact I mentioned sure,” Roth defined. “I really like appearing for administrators that I actually respect.”

New episodes of “Euphoria” air Sundays on HBO and HBO Max at 9 P.M. EST.