The Weeknd opened up about his upcoming HBO musical drama The Idol in a brand new profile on Tuesday (Could 16).
Sitting down with Self-importance Truthful, the “Blinding Lights” singer in any other case often called Abel Tesfaye defended the forthcoming collection after Rolling Stone reported manufacturing had been marred with controversy, the ousting of unique director Amy Seimetz and an entire overhaul of the primary season requiring intensive reshoots.
“I assumed the article was ridiculous. I wished to present a ridiculous response to it,” he mentioned within the interview, pointing to his tweet responding to the story with a clip from The Idol by which his character, Tedros, questions, “Rolling Stone? Aren’t they slightly…irrelevant?” To punctuate the dig, The Weeknd cheekily captioned his tweet with a direct message to the journal, tweeting, “.@RollingStone did we upset you?”
Additional, Tesfaye insisted there was no scandal when it got here to changing Seimetz together with his co-creator Sam Levinson as director. “I really actually liked working with Amy,” he mentioned, “and I’m positive she’s studying all this being like, ‘Why am I being thrown into this?’” As a substitute, he chalked up the behind-the-scenes swap to scheduling conflicts and manufacturing timelines, nonchalantly including, “Reveals get reshot on daily basis … What are you gonna do? These are the trials and tribulations of it, and that’s what the present is about.”
The Idol, which stars Lily-Rose Depp as a mononymous pop star named Jocelyn and Tesfaye as her egotistical producer and mentor Tedros, is ready to premiere on the Cannes Movie Pageant later this month earlier than its huge premiere on HBO and MAX June 4. The present can even characteristic the likes of Suzanna Son, Rachel Sennott, Dan Levy, Troye Sivan, Moses Sumney, Jennie of BLACKPINK and extra.
Learn extra from The Weeknd’s Self-importance Truthful interview about The Idol right here and take a look at his cowl shot beneath.
