“I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” the 33-year-old singer told the outlet.In the opening moments of Sam Levinson’s The Idol, red hot pop megastar Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp, Johnny Depp’s 23-year-old daughter) is commanded by a photographer to cycle through seven different emotions on cue. “I may be looking too deeply into this, but it was terrifying.”Īs a result, Tesfaye said that playing Tedros has impacted how he sees himself. “My theory is that I forgot how to sing because I was playing Tedros, a character who doesn’t know how to sing,” he said. The singer said the peak of how jarring the experience was for him was when he later lost his voice after filming the scene, which was shot during an actual Weeknd concert.
“It was tough to go from one head to another.” "I had to take off The Weeknd outfit, put on Tedros’ wig, shoot with Jocelyn, then go back to being The Weeknd,” he recalled to W. In an interview for W magazine last month, the “Can’t Feel My Face” singer said he may start going by his birth name and that he came to the decision while filming a scene at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles last fall. "The Idol" premiered on HBO June 4 and is available on its streaming platform, Max. "I’d be like, ‘He’s in his zone right now.’”
“Sometimes when Abel would get - I don’t want to reveal too much about where Abel’s character goes, but when he would be in full Tedros mode sometimes, I would steer clear of him," she described.
“I don’t think anybody went full method - nobody lost their minds,” Depp told Entertainment Weekly in a story published June 2, referring to the extent to which actors still carried their characters when cameras were not rolling.īut she did witness Abel Tesfaye, professionally known as The Weeknd, "in his zone." The "Earned It" singer co-created the show and plays Tedros, a sleazy club owner who takes aspiring pop star Jocelyn, played by Depp, under his wing. Lily-Rose Depp says seeing "full Tedros mode" was her cue to give The Weeknd space on the set of their new HBO series, "The Idol."
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