Regardless of the controversy round Sam Levinson‘s The Idol, Lily-Rose Depp has nothing however reward about her time working with the present’s creator.
The actress lately defended Levinson after he acquired backlash for the short-lived HBO drama, noting that he “at all times knew it was going to be controversial” as he’s “involved in that form of work.”
“I feel the factor that sucked about that was to have individuals speaking s— about Sam [Levinson], who is a superb good friend of mine and someone that I take into account household,” she mentioned on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I’m tremendous shut with him and Ashley [Levinson] — his spouse who’s a producer on the present — and they’re such fantastic individuals, so unimaginable, so sort, and actually form of took me below their wing in a means.”
Depp added, “The one factor that was upsetting about that complete time interval was individuals speaking negatively about [Sam] as a result of the issues that they mentioned about him, significantly, as a filmmaker, simply couldn’t be farther from the reality than from, a minimum of, my expertise working with him. In order that sucks. You simply by no means need to hear individuals speaking s— about your good friend.”
Within the 2023 sequence, which was canceled after one season, Depp performed pop star Jocelyn, who returns to the limelight after a nervous breakdown pressured her to cancel her final tour, changing into concerned with self-help guru Tedros (The Weeknd) and his cult.
Lily-Rose Depp in HBO’s ‘The Idol’
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“I like that character and I like that present,” mentioned Depp. “Individuals are at all times gonna make their very own opinions of issues, and so that you simply should be steadfast in your conviction of, like, ‘I do know why I’m doing this,’ and I do know why I did that. That was a interval in my life the place I really feel like I realized a lot, I used to be pushed to date out of my consolation zone, in essentially the most lovely means, and it gave me a lot development that I’ll at all times look again on that as one of the crucial particular occasions of my life.”
Depp mentioned, “I feel we had been additionally, like, pushing society’s buttons deliberately a little bit bit, in a means, and naturally, it was acquired in the way in which that it was, but it surely’s okay. It’s lovely and I wouldn’t have modified something about it.”
The Idol‘s cancelation got here after intensive reshoots following the departure of director Amy Seimetz, as revealed by Deadline in April 2022, and a lowered order taking its complete variety of episodes to 5. By the point the ultimate episode aired, the overwhelming sentiment across the present was destructive.
