New nepobaby just dropped! At least, that’s what folks online are saying after Dylan Gere, son of Golden Globe winner Richard Gere, appeared on Euphoria season 3 as Dylan Reid. Here’s what you need to know about his character and acting career.
Gere has kind of been on the third season of the HBO series this whole time—just kind of in the background. Dylan is an actor in-universe and one of the stars of L.A. Nights, the nighttime soap opera that employs both Lexi as a writer’s assistant and Maddy as a talent agent. (It kind of seemed like Lexi had a crush on him. Regardless, making a suggestion for one of his scenes did help her career.)
In the penultimate episode of the show, Maddy sets Dylan up on a date with Cassie to get her OnlyFans career back on track. After the two of them have sex, Cassie posts an explicit-ish photo to Dylan’s Instagram, tags herself, and then hides his phone. Her subscriber numbers go through the roof.
Personality-wise, Dylan seems nice enough. He genuinely likes Cassie and apologizes to her for what happened with her brief experience on L.A. Nights. He’s wearing a hat from the clothing brand Praying with “violence and movies and sex on TV,” a.k.a. lyrics from the Family Guy theme, on it. That’s fun, right? While he does accidentally scoop Nate’s finger into a glass of ice water and take a sip or two, he doesn’t even notice. He seems to be just a pawn in Euphoria season 3’s many wild storylines.
Did Sam Levinson cast young Gere as a reference to his father’s films Pretty Woman, Unfaithful, and/or Runaway Bride? It’s probably not that deep, but maybe. It is kind of a wild 90s coincidence that the other guy Cassie cheated on Nate with this season for clicks and subscribers, influencer Brandon Fontaine, was played by a Wahlberg.
While he appears in hundreds of Getty Images, the actor—who is sometimes credited by his full government name: Homer James Jigme Gere—does not have public social media. This is the actor’s first television role, but he’s already booked another that’s kind of major. Later this summer, you’ll see him in Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ autofiction horror novel The Shards. (That’s a terrifying sentence to me, but the show will absolutely have fans.) The FX series also stars Kaia Gerber, Igby Rigney, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell, and Wes Bentley. When it does finally come out, you can say you knew Gere when!
