“Shows get reshot every day.” In conversation with VF, theweeknd discusses his rise to fame, his relationship to his own persona, and what really happened behind the scenes of TheIdol. 🔗:
Even at the peak of his success, the heights Tesfaye ended up climbing looked unlikely. “I thought ‘Blinding Lights’ was gonna be a flop,” he said. “No one’s around to judge me,” he sings, but the dread lurks just below the surface. A pointedly goofy dance challenge on TikTok in 2020 spurred a run to becoming the number one Billboard song of all time. Tesfaye thought it provided an entry point for fuller excursions into his catalog.
It’s tough, having seen about 15 minutes of the show across a few scenes and trailers, to read its tone. Sennott’s comic acting in particular might point to a top note of horror movie camp. Taylor and Tesfaye both said that the show is funnier than has been let on, and Depp said, “What makes it work is its sense of humor.”
Questions of consent and misogyny circled Tesfaye’s work more often at the beginning of his career. Pitchfork’s review ofotherwise glowing, wondered “whether these are real-life tales or imaginative storytelling—you want to think the latter, but ultimately the anonymity makes it seem more disturbing.
“I know it’s easy for people to be like, Oh, he wanted to be the star,” he continued. He insisted that the show remains grounded in Depp’s perspective as the lead and that he’d always written it that way—and that he didn’t want to play her counterpart until Levinson and others convinced him.
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