Despite the controversy round Sam Levinson‘s The Idol, Lily-Rose Depp has nothing but praise about her time working with the show’s creator.
The actress lately defended Levinson after he acquired backlash for the short-lived HBO drama, noting that he “always knew it was going to be controversial” as he’s “interested in that kind of work.”
“I think the thing that sucked about that was to have people talking s— about Sam [Levinson], who is a great friend of mine and somebody that I consider family,” she stated on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I’m super close with him and Ashley [Levinson] — his wife who’s a producer on the show — and they are such wonderful people, so incredible, so kind, and really kind of took me under their wing in a way.”
Depp added, “The only thing that was upsetting about that whole time period was people talking negatively about [Sam] because the things that they said about him, particularly, as a filmmaker, just couldn’t be further from the truth than from, at least, my experience working with him. So that sucks. You just never want to hear people talking s— about your friend.”
In 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, turning into concerned with self-help guru Tedros (The Weeknd) and his cult.
Lily-Rose Depp in HBO’s ‘The Idol’
HBO
“I love that character and I love that show,” stated Depp. “People are always gonna make their own opinions of things, and so you just have to be steadfast in your conviction of, like, ‘I know why I’m doing this,’ and I know why I did that. That was a period in my life where I feel like I learned so much, I was pushed so far out of my comfort zone, in the most beautiful way, and it gave me so much growth that I will always look back on that as one of the most special times of my life.”
Depp stated, “I think we were also, like, pushing society’s buttons intentionally a little bit, in a way, and of course, it was received in the way that it was, but it’s okay. It’s beautiful and I wouldn’t have changed anything about it.”
The Idol‘s cancelation got here after in depth reshoots following the departure of director Amy Seimetz, as revealed by Deadline in April 2022, and a decreased order taking its whole variety of episodes to 5. By the time the ultimate episode aired, the overwhelming sentiment across the present was adverse.