Here's how HBO's 'The Idol' became one of TV's most controversial shows—before it even aired
, Seimetz’s version was originally centered around “a troubled starlet falling victim to a predatory industry figure and fighting to reclaim her own agency.” Thedirector had completed around 80% of the series, and around $54 to $75 million had been sunk into the project, the publication reports. But the story alleges that the production was troubled from the start, held up due to multiple script rewrites, reshoots, and other sorts of delays, on top of “near-impossible expectations from HBO.
Crew members told the publication that Seimetz was “set up to fail” and that they felt bad for her. One person who worked on the project told, “Amy was doing her best in an impossible situation, but she was going to lose this no matter what. Honestly, I think HBO handed her a sh-t stack.” Seimetz was already signed on for an acting gig in Netflix’s DC Comics show.
supported the claim that Tesfaye was to blame for the restructuring and wanted to “tone down the cult aspect of the storyline and pivot into something else entirely, dropping the ‘feminist lens’ through which the show was being told as a result.
The response to this video was largely negative. One person quote-tweeted the tweet and wrote, “Mind you, all Rolling Stone did was publish an article on the clearly toxic workplace environment Sam Levinson created so your shade is misguided Mr. Tesfaye.” Another person responded by saying, “Not only is this a hall of fame terrible way to respond to an exposé about you, but the scene shows these two supposedly Hollywood-savvy Instagram model characters turning down a magazine cover which is… not realistically what Hollywood-savvy Instagram models would do.”Rolling Stone
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