The Weeknd now understands why your debut project as an actor, The idol, I have bad criticism.
The singer, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, said that “makes a lot of sense”, since the project was done in a hurry.
“Pandemic happened, the theaters are no longer one thing at that time, television is the new God,” said Tesfaye The guardianExplaining that the program was originally destined to be a film, but the situation after Covid forced him and the co -creators Reza Fahim and Euphoria’s master mind Sam Levinson, to turn it into a five -episodes show.
“It could have been great if I had a start, medium and final. It simply ended in the middle,” he said.
The idol, starring Lily-Rose Depp, Suzanna Son and Troye Sivan, was brutally criticized by experts and audiences equally.
The Weeknd continued and insinuated that the program also suffered due to the lack of passion in some cast members and the team, which were anxious because it concluded.
“The best films have the greatest possible singular voice, and all who work on it care as much as the director and the actors,” he said.
“People worried about that, sure,” he said about the idol. “But I think it reached a point where everyone tried to reach the finish line. You can’t force something. You just have to let it be, even if it is halfway.”
He also said that, although he was involved in the conception of the program, he had to mitigate him since he did not want to be difficult.
“[Because] Then I get “difficult”, and the worst that can be called in Hollywood is difficult, “he said.” It spreads “difficult”! “
“You have to pay your quotas,” he added. “But boy, did I pay my quotas”?
“And although you are looking at everything that is happening and is like, ‘I will have diarrhea at this time because my instincts are saying that things are disabled,’ you have to trust professionals, the system,” Weeknd shared. “You have to see it until the end. It was unfortunate.”
