Lily-Rose Depp will at all times have Sam Levinson‘s again.
The actress is continuous to defend The Idol co-creator after he obtained backlash in 2023 for the controversial HBO collection, which noticed Depp play Jocelyn, reverse Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s Tedros. Levinson additionally created Euphoria, starring Zendaya.
“I feel the factor that sucked about that was to have individuals speaking shit about Sam [Levinson], who is a superb good friend of mine and someone that I contemplate household,” she just lately advised host Josh Horowitz on the Completely satisfied Unhappy 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 unbelievable, so sort, and actually sort of took me below their wing in a manner.”
The Nosferatu star continued, “The one factor that was upsetting about that entire time interval was individuals speaking negatively about [Sam] as a result of the issues that they stated about him, significantly, as a filmmaker, simply couldn’t be farther from the reality than from, not less than, my expertise working with him. In order that sucks. You simply by no means wish to hear individuals speaking shit about your good friend.”
The Idol adopted Depp’s struggling pop star character, who jumps into a fancy relationship with Tedros, a nightclub proprietor and modern-day cult chief. The HBO present was canceled after one season.
Depp stated that whereas she loves her character and the collection, they “at all times knew it was going to be controversial,” including that she’s “enthusiastic about that sort of work.”
“Persons 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,” the Voyagers actress defined. “That was a interval in my life the place I really feel like I realized a lot, I used to be pushed thus far out of my consolation zone, in essentially the most stunning manner, and it gave me a lot progress that I’ll at all times look again on that as one of the vital particular instances of my life.”
Depp added, “I feel we have been additionally, like, pushing society’s buttons deliberately a little bit bit, in a manner, and naturally, it was obtained in the best way that it was, nevertheless it’s OK. … It’s stunning and I wouldn’t have modified something about it.”
The Wolf actress, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, shared an analogous sentiment in June 2023 amid the present’s premiere, saying, “I don’t suppose any of us have been enthusiastic about making something that was going to be, you realize, enjoyable for the entire household.”
Whereas the present’s promotional supplies leaned into its edginess, it was later met with unfavorable consideration when Rolling Stone printed an exposé alleging that the collection went “wildly, disgustingly off the rails” following the departure of unique director Amy Seimetz.
