Lily-Rose Depp will at all times have Sam Levinson‘s again.
The actress is constant to defend The Idol co-creator after he obtained backlash in 2023 for the controversial HBO sequence, which noticed Depp play Jocelyn, reverse Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s Tedros. Levinson additionally created Euphoria, starring Zendaya.
“I believe the factor that sucked about that was to have folks speaking shit about Sam [Levinson], who is a good buddy of mine and any person that I contemplate household,” she lately advised host Josh Horowitz on the Pleased 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 great folks, so unbelievable, so sort, and actually sort of took me beneath their wing in a manner.”
The Nosferatu star continued, “The one factor that was upsetting about that entire time interval was folks speaking negatively about [Sam] as a result of the issues that they mentioned about him, significantly, as a filmmaker, simply couldn’t be farther from the reality than from, no less than, my expertise working with him. In order that sucks. You simply by no means wish to hear folks speaking shit about your buddy.”
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 mentioned that whereas she loves her character and the sequence, they “at all times knew it was going to be controversial,” including that she’s “concerned with that sort of work.”
“Individuals are at all times gonna make their very own opinions of issues, and so that you simply must 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 to this point out of my consolation zone, in essentially the most lovely manner, and it gave me a lot development that I’ll at all times look again on that as one of the particular instances of my life.”
Depp added, “I believe we have been additionally, like, pushing society’s buttons deliberately a bit bit, in a manner, and naturally, it was obtained in the best way that it was, but it surely’s OK. … It’s lovely and I wouldn’t have modified something about it.”
The Wolf actress, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, shared the same sentiment in June 2023 amid the present’s premiere, saying, “I don’t suppose any of us have been concerned with making something that was going to be, you already know, 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 revealed an exposé alleging that the sequence went “wildly, disgustingly off the rails” following the departure of unique director Amy Seimetz.