Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye has defended the uncomfortable intercourse scene in the newest episode of The Idol.
In Sam Levinson’s new HBO drama, the Cannot Really feel My Face singer makes his performing debut as creepy nightclub proprietor Tedros, who has seemingly solid a spell over Lily-Rose Depp’s pop star character Jocelyn.
Throughout Sunday’s episode, a fully-clothed Tedros sat making sexually express calls for whereas an almost nude Jocelyn writhed round on a mattress, moaning with pleasure. Many viewers discovered the scene awkward and gross, with GQ calling it “the worst intercourse scene in historical past”.
Defending the scene, Tesfaye insisted the viewers wasn’t supposed to search out it attractive.
“There’s nothing attractive about it,” Tesfaye advised GQ. “Nevertheless you feel watching that scene, whether or not it is discomfort, otherwise you really feel gross, otherwise you really feel embarrassed for the characters. It is all these feelings including as much as: this man is in approach over his head, this example is one the place he’s not speculated to be right here.”
Many social media customers have questioned why Jocelyn could be seduced by such a sleazy character, and Tesfaye confirmed that Tedros is designed to be “a douchebag”.
“He is despicable, a psychopath – why sugar coat it?” he added. “There’s nothing actually mysterious or hypnotizing about him. And we did that on function together with his look, his outfits, his hair – the man’s a douchebag. You’ll be able to inform he cares a lot about what he seems to be like, and he thinks he seems to be good. However you then see these bizarre moments of him alone – he rehearses, he is calculated. And he wants to do this, or he has nothing, he is pathetic.”
The Idol presently airs within the U.S. on Sundays.
