Cannes: Lily-Rose Depp, The Weeknd on Depicting the “Pornification” of American Pop Culture in Sexually Explicit ‘The Idol’
Depp, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and series director Sam Levinson dismissed reports of on-set turmoil in the making of the six-part HBO series. “It was completely foreign to me,” said Levinson, “but reading it I thought: ‘We are about to have the biggest show of the summer.'”
