There’s no such thing as bad press, especially in France, which meant that on Monday at 10:30 p.m. Depp put out her own statement, writing that Levinson was “the best director I have ever worked with” who “hires people whose work he esteems and has always created an environment in which I felt seen, heard, and appreciated,” perhaps referring to another layer atop the mille-feuille of Levinson-related drama: the press surrounding Barbie Ferreira’s early departure from Euphoria and her co-star Sydney Sweeney’s comments about asking Levinson for fewer nude scenes.
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“It went from satire to the thing it was satirizing.”īoth stars leapt to The Idol’s defense: Tesfaye tweeted a clip from the series in which his character calls Rolling Stone “a little irrelevant,” explaining in a recent Vanity Fair cover story that he thought the article was “ridiculous” and that he “wanted to give a ridiculous response to it.” He also claimed that Seimetz, who has yet to publicly comment on any of this, left the project due to scheduling issues. The things that we subject our talent and stars to, the forces that put people in the spotlight and how that can be manipulated in the post-Trump world,” explained one crew member.
“What I signed up for was a dark satire of fame and the fame model in the 21st century. In March, a bombshell report from Rolling Stone alleged that the show had, at Tesfaye and Levinson’s behest, evolved from a story “about a woman who was finding herself sexually” to a story “about a man who gets to abuse this woman and she loves it.” Reportedly, Tesfaye felt the show was heading too much into a “female perspective,” and as a result, the show had devolved into a “rape fantasy” - “sexual torture porn” that dialed up the nudity and disturbing content. In April of 2022, after shooting nearly 80 percent of the show at a rumored budget of $75 million, director Amy Seimetz dropped out of the series, and HBO announced it was refining The Idol’s “vision” by “adjusting its cast and crew.” Sometime thereafter, Levinson moved his entire family into Tesfaye’s Bel Air mansion, where he reshot the entire thing. the Weeknd, Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, and producer Reza Fahim, and starring Tesfaye as an enigmatic cult leader sinking his claws into Lily-Rose Depp’s disgraced pop star - has been threatening to eclipse the project ever since it was announced all the way back in 2021. The dramatic, yearslong metanarrative surrounding the show - co-created by Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. We are republishing it on the occasion of the series’ premiere on HBO.īefore the Monday night premiere of The Idol at Cannes, nobody had actually seen the HBO series, but everyone had formed an opinion on it. This article originally published during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Like: Is Sam Levinson and the Weeknd’s new HBO show starring Lily-Rose Depp actually “sexual torture porn,” or nah?
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