The idol : a sordid love affair with Lily-Rose Depp
After House of the Dragon AND The Last of Usthe next HBO series that could make an impression is called The idol. This is the new creation of Sam Levinson (Euphoria) with in the cast Lily Rose Depp as a pop singer and The weekend as a club owner in Los Angeles. A long-awaited program, but which we have already been able to take a look at with several trailers. Promotional videos that promise a sulphurous and critical show on the world of celebrities, the relationship with the image, the superficiality of the stars, etc. All following, according to HBO, “Hollywood’s sordidest love story“.
So there is a long wait The idol but an article by RollingStone has cause for concern. The US outlet says multiple sources said the production was chaotic, with a number of script rewrites following a change in the creative team.
A significant change of vision
RollingStone thus remembers that in April 2022 the director Amy Seimetz, after shooting about 80% of the series, had been thanked of HBO for that Sam Levinson can take complete control The idol. The creator’s goal would therefore have been to get away from a “too feminist show“ offer a “sexual content and nudity that more closely matches (and even surpasses) his hit series EuphoriaWhich is surprising when you are expecting something that is aimed precisely at partially criticizing the use of nudity to sell, as evidenced by one producer:
I subscribed to a dark satire on 21st century celebrities and role models (…) It went from a satire to what rightfully needed to be criticized.
The article goes even further by highlighting the last-minute addition of sequences that weren’t foreseen in the initial scenario. scenes”Disgusting” and issues that would characterize the character played by Lily-Rose Depp in the process of report the rape from the protagonist played by The Weeknd, believing that this was the reason for his success.
It became a fantasized vision of rape like any toxic man on the show would, with the woman asking for more because she thinks it makes her music better.
Several sequences in this spirit would have been proposed without being transformed at the end. That doesn’t stop one team member from claiming that Sam Levinson turned this production into “sexual torture porn“.
HBO and The Weeknd react
Finally, the entire article rests on the opposition made between Amy Seimetzan initially hired female director with a vision of her own and her understudy Sam Levisson with dubious vision. Following this article, which paints a dire portrait of the creator and overall output of The idol, HBO has contradicted these claims by Rolling Stones. In a statement, the channel said that “the creative team is committed to creating a safe working environment, cooperative and respectful. Last year the team made some creative changes that were in the best interests of both the production and the cast and crew.“.
For his part, The Weeknd responded to these allegations with a tweet addressed directly to RollingStone. Ironically, he asks if it upset them, as he adds an extract of The idol which rightly mocks the American media.
For their part, neither Amy Seimetz nor Lily-Rose Depp have spoken. However, the actress seemed to support the series through her account instagram. For our part we can only judge the series when it will be broadcast, but HBO has not yet indicated a date.
Source: Cine Serie
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