diff --git a/src/Environment.php b/src/Environment.php
index da0438df39f..183b8c493e2 100644
--- a/src/Environment.php
+++ b/src/Environment.php
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ public function __construct(LoaderInterface $loader, $options = [])
         ]);
 
         $this->addExtension(new CoreExtension());
-        $this->addExtension(new EscaperExtension($this->getRuntime(EscaperRuntime::class), $options['autoescape']));
+        $this->addExtension(new EscaperExtension($options['autoescape']));
         $this->addExtension(new OptimizerExtension($options['optimizations']));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Extension/EscaperExtension.php b/src/Extension/EscaperExtension.php
index 3cb847beb64..6204fe77889 100644
--- a/src/Extension/EscaperExtension.php
+++ b/src/Extension/EscaperExtension.php
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 
 namespace Twig\Extension;
 
-use Twig\Environment;
 use Twig\FileExtensionEscapingStrategy;
 use Twig\Node\Expression\ConstantExpression;
 use Twig\Node\Node;
@@ -22,18 +21,10 @@
 
 final class EscaperExtension extends AbstractExtension
 {
-    private $escaper;
-    private $defaultStrategy;
-
-    /**
-     * @param string|false|callable $defaultStrategy An escaping strategy
-     *
-     * @see setDefaultStrategy()
-     */
-    public function __construct(EscaperRuntime $escaper, $defaultStrategy = 'html')
-    {
+    public function __construct(
+        private $defaultStrategy = 'html'
+    ) {
         $this->setDefaultStrategy($defaultStrategy);
-        $this->escaper = $escaper;
     }
 
     public function getTokenParsers(): array