The Weeknd has responded to the backlash towards his debut tv collection after a Rolling Stone report alleged that the manufacturing is a “shitshow.” The explosive exposé, printed Wednesday, included 16 nameless sources, a lot 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 taking part in a publicist or agent, encourages pop star Jocelyn to be featured in a Rolling Stone cowl story.
“Rolling Stone? Aren’t they a bit irrelevant?” Tedros mentioned.
Jocelyn then means that the journal is “a bit previous its prime,” with Tedros including, “No person cares about Rolling Stone.” Tedros additionally opens his cellphone 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.
In keeping with Rolling Stone’s piece, many on the set claimed the Weeknd and co-creator Sam Levinson — finest recognized for creating Euphoria — overhauled the erotic drama in a controversial route after the ousting of director Amy Seimetz, who reportedly employed a “feminist lens.”
In a assertion to BuzzFeed Information on Wednesday, HBO mentioned it’s excited for followers to see the collection 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 among HBO’s most enjoyable and provocative unique applications. The preliminary method on the present and manufacturing of the early episodes, sadly, didn’t meet HBO requirements so we selected to make a change,” HBO mentioned in an announcement to BuzzFeed Information. “All through the method, the artistic workforce has been dedicated to making a protected, collaborative, and mutually respectful working atmosphere.”
One supply advised Rolling Stone that the Hollywood satire grew to become “the factor it was satirizing.”
One other supply described the brand new artistic imaginative and prescient for the collection 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.
