The Weeknd now understands why his working debut project, The idol, Got bad reviews.
The singer, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, said it “makes a lot of sense” when the project was made in a hurry.
“Pandemi happened, theaters are no longer anymore at the time TV is the new god,” Tesfaye told The GuardianWhere he explained that the show was originally meant to be a movie, but after the Kovid situation forced him and co-creators Reza Fahim and Euphoria Mastermind Sam Levinson to make it a show of five episodes.
“It could have been fantastic if it had a beginning, middle and end. It ended right in the middle,” he noted.
The idol, which also co-starred Lily-Rose Depp, Suzanna Son and Troye Sivan, was brutally criticized by both experts and audiences.
The Weeknd continued and suggested that the show was also suffering because of a lack of passion with some members of the role crew and the crew who were eager after it was packing.
“The best films have as much of a unique voice as possible, and everyone working on it cares about it as much as the director and actors,” he said.
“People were interested in it, certainly,” he said of the idol. “But I think it came to a point where everyone was trying to get to the finish line. You can’t force anything. You just have to let it be what it is, even if it’s half baked.”
He also claimed that although he was involved in the show of the show, he had to tone it down as he would not come so difficult.
“[Because] Then I become ‘difficult’ and the worst thing you can be called in Hollywood is difficult, ‘he said.’ ‘Difficult’ is spreading! “
“You have to pay your quota,” he added. “But boy, I paid my quota.”
“And even if you look at everything going on and it’s like, ‘I want diarrhea right now because my instincts say things are off,’ you have to trust the professionals, the system,” shared The Weeknd. “You have to see it through until the end. It was unfortunate.”
