The Weeknd has responded to the backlash in opposition to his debut tv sequence after a Rolling Stone report alleged that the manufacturing is a “shitshow.” The explosive exposé, revealed Wednesday, included 16 nameless sources, lots of whom detailed a tumultuous artistic course of and questionable rewrites and reshoots on the set of HBO’s The Idol.
“@RollingStone did we upset you?” the Weeknd tweeted.
The “Die for You” singer shared a clip from the present of his character Tedros with Jocelyn (costar Lily-Rose Depp) speaking to a personality performed by Dan Levy. Within the clip, Levy, presumably enjoying a publicist or agent, encourages pop star Jocelyn to be featured in a Rolling Stone cowl story.
“Rolling Stone? Aren’t they slightly irrelevant?” Tedros stated.
Jocelyn then means that the journal is “slightly previous its prime,” with Tedros including, “No one cares about Rolling Stone.” Tedros additionally opens his telephone to check the journal’s 6 million Instagram followers with Jocelyn’s 78 million.
BuzzFeed Information has reached out to Rolling Stone for touch upon the tweet and the clip.
Based on Rolling Stone’s piece, many on the set claimed the Weeknd and co-creator Sam Levinson — finest identified for creating Euphoria — overhauled the erotic drama in a controversial course after the ousting of director Amy Seimetz, who reportedly employed a “feminist lens.”
In a assertion to BuzzFeed Information on Wednesday, HBO stated it’s excited for followers to see the sequence following a artistic shift that the creators felt was “in the very best curiosity of each the manufacturing and the forged and crew.”
“The creators and producers of The Idol have been working exhausting to create one in every of HBO’s most enjoyable and provocative unique applications. The preliminary strategy on the present and manufacturing of the early episodes, sadly, didn’t meet HBO requirements so we selected to make a change,” HBO stated in a press release to BuzzFeed Information. “All through the method, the artistic staff has been dedicated to making a protected, collaborative, and mutually respectful working surroundings.”
One supply instructed Rolling Stone that the Hollywood satire turned “the factor it was satirizing.”
One other supply described the brand new artistic imaginative and prescient for the sequence as “any rape fantasy that any poisonous man would have within the present — after which the lady comes again for extra as a result of it makes her music higher.”
Representatives for the Weeknd, Levinson, Depp, and Seimetz haven’t responded to BuzzFeed Information’ requests for touch upon the report and HBO’s assertion.
