The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp have responded to claims suggesting manufacturing on their TV sequence The Idol has been affected by issues.
On Wednesday, editors at Rolling Stone revealed a report by which 13 sources linked to the HBO drama sequence alleged the manufacturing was messy and chaotic, with spiralling budgets and capturing schedules.
Manufacturing went on hiatus in April 2022 after director Amy Seimetz dropped out of the venture, having filmed about 80 per cent of the present. Co-creator and co-writer Sam Levinson, greatest identified for his HBO drama Euphoria, was introduced in as director when filming resumed that Might and he reportedly rewrote and reshot all the present from scratch.
He reportedly scrapped Seimetz’s “feminine lens” method to the function, about Depp’s troubled pop star falling sufferer to The Weeknd’s cult chief, and made it right into a twisted love story that includes gratuitous nudity, express sexual content material, and depictions of abuse.
In response, the pop star, actual title Abel Tesfaye, shared an unseen clip from The Idol by which his and Depp’s characters Tedros and Jocelyn criticise Rolling Stone when their publicist suggests doing a canopy.
Within the clip, Tedros calls the publication “irrelevant” and insists “no one cares” about it, whereas Jocelyn says it is “previous its prime”.
Captioning the footage, the Blinding Lights singer, who makes his appearing debut within the present, wrote, “@rollingstone did we upset you?”
In the meantime, Depp got here to the defence of Levinson in a press release to a number of shops, calling him “the very best director I’ve ever labored with”.
“By no means have I felt extra supported or revered in a inventive area, my enter and opinions extra valued. Working with Sam is a real collaboration in each means – it issues to him, greater than something, not solely what his actors take into consideration the work, however how we really feel performing it,” she continued. “He hires individuals whose work he esteems and has all the time created an surroundings by which I felt seen, heard and appreciated.”
HBO officers additionally insisted, “All through the method, the inventive staff has been dedicated to making a secure, collaborative, and mutually respectful working surroundings, and final 12 months, the staff made inventive adjustments they felt have been in the very best curiosity of each the manufacturing and the forged and crew.”
A launch date for The Idol has not but been introduced.
