Actor Lily-Rose Depp says it was upsetting to see her friend and “The Idol” co-creator Sam Levinson being subjected to “negative” comments after the show premiered.
Depp starred in “The Idol” alongside singer Abel Tesfaye, better known by his stage name The Weeknd.
The HBO series, which arrived in 2023, courted controversy for its alleged sexually graphic content and glamorisation of toxic relationships. Levinson served as creator on “The Idol” alongside The Weeknd and Reza Fahim.
“I think the thing that sucked about that was to have people talking s**t about Sam, who is a great friend of mine and somebody that I consider family,” she said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
“The only thing that was upsetting about that whole time period was people talking negatively about (Sam) because the things that they said about him, particularly, as a filmmaker, just couldn’t be further from the truth than from, at least, my experience working with him. So that sucks. You just never want to hear people talking s**t about your friend,” she added.