{"id":136603,"date":"2025-01-04T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/lily-rose-depp-defends-sam-levinson-after-the-idol-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:57:30","slug":"lily-rose-depp-defends-sam-levinson-after-the-idol-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/lily-rose-depp-defends-sam-levinson-after-the-idol-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily-Rose Depp Defends Sam Levinson After ‘The Idol’ Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tDespite the controversy round Sam Levinson<\/a>\u2018s The Idol<\/a><\/em>, Lily-Rose Depp<\/a> has nothing but praise about her time working with the show\u2019s creator.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress lately defended Levinson after he acquired backlash for the short-lived HBO<\/a> drama, noting that he \u201calways knew it was going to be controversial\u201d as he\u2019s \u201cinterested in that kind of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the thing that sucked about that was to have people talking s\u2014 about Sam [Levinson], who is a great friend of mine and somebody that I consider family,\u201d she stated on the Happy Sad Confused<\/a><\/em> podcast. \u201cI\u2019m super close with him and Ashley [Levinson] \u2014 his wife who\u2019s a producer on the show \u2014 and they are such wonderful people, so incredible, so kind, and really kind of took me under their wing in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDepp added, \u201cThe 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\u2019t 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\u2014 about your friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the 2023 sequence, which was canceled after one season<\/a>, 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<\/a>) and his cult.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLily-Rose Depp in HBO\u2019s \u2018The Idol\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI love that character and I love that show,\u201d stated Depp. \u201cPeople are always gonna make their own opinions of things, and so you just have to be steadfast in your conviction of, like, \u2018I know why I\u2019m doing this,\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDepp stated, \u201cI think we were also, like, pushing society\u2019s buttons intentionally a little bit, in a way, and of course, it was received in the way that it was, but it\u2019s okay. It\u2019s beautiful and I wouldn\u2019t have changed anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Idol<\/em>\u2018s cancelation got here after in depth reshoots following the departure of director Amy Seimetz<\/a>, as revealed<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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