Lily-Rose Depp will all the time be on Sam Levinson’s facet.
After the co-creator of The Idol confronted criticism in 2023 for the contentious HBO sequence during which Depp performed Jocelyn alongside Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s Tedros, the actress remains to be standing up for him. Zendaya starred in Euphoria, which Levinson additionally produced.
“I feel the factor that sucked about that was to have folks speaking shit about Sam [Levinson], who is a superb buddy of mine and someone that I think about household,” she lately informed host Josh Horowitz 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 great folks, so unimaginable, so type, and actually sort of took me beneath their wing in a approach.”
The Nosferatu star continued, “The solely factor that was upsetting about that entire time interval was folks 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. So that sucks. You simply by no means need to hear folks speaking shit about your buddy.”
In The Idol, Depp’s struggling pop singer character, Tedros, a nightclub proprietor and modern cult chief, enters a sophisticated romance. After only one season, the HBO sequence was cancelled.
They “all the time knew it was going to be controversial,” Depp added, including that she’s “thinking about that sort of work,” though she loves her character and the sequence.
“People are all the time gonna make their very own opinions of issues, and so that you simply need to 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 discovered a lot, I used to be pushed thus far out of my consolation zone, in probably the most stunning approach, and it gave me a lot development that I’ll all the time look again on that as some of the particular occasions of my life.”
Depp added, “I feel we have been additionally, like, pushing society’s buttons deliberately slightly bit, in a approach, and naturally, it was obtained in the way in which that it was, but it surely’s OK. … It’s stunning and I wouldn’t have modified something about it.”
