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Lily-Rose Depp Sees The Weeknd As "Supportive Friend" Amid Filming The Idol
Yes, The Idol whitethorn beryllium receiving mixed reviews, but Chloe Fineman's spoof on the provocative drama has earned a lasting ovation.
Including from the HBO Max show's stars Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd.
In a now-viral Instagram clip, the Saturday Night Live star is seen impersonating self-destructive vocalist Jocelyn, played by Lily-Rose. Wearing lacy lingerie (backwards, of course) and smoking a cigarette, she asks the camera, "Does my opus suck?"
The video past cuts to 34-year-old now smoking a literal fistful of cigarettes and in a deep-cut, reddish silk robe. "Music should dependable similar a slut oregon a whore," she says, aboriginal adding, "Music should dependable similar it's poly or, like, bi. Like, euphony doesn't person a gender. It f--ks, you know?"
She goes connected to explicate however she met Tedros (The Weeknd's self-help guru and possibly a cult leader) successful a club: "I deliberation he's gonna, like, alteration my career." Sureeee.
And, spoiler, conscionable similar astatine the extremity of the archetypal episode, which dropped June 4, Chloe tightly wraps her robe astir her head, choking herself while idiosyncratic disconnected camera says, "Now sing similar you tin f--k."
Cue the comedian belting out Cher's "Believe" followed by Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocket Full of Sunshine."
"My audition for THE IDOL (must person got mislaid successful the mail)," Chloe captioned the June 9 clip. "(@lilyrose_depp is simply a GODDESS of talent)."
But these stars think Chloe is the existent star. While the rapper retweeted her video with a drawstring of crying emojis, Lily-Rose commented connected Instagram, "I'm loling ….. and ur constitution looks bomb."
And erstwhile it came clip to trade Jocelyn, who is attempting a vocation comeback after a tense breakdown, the 24-year-old turned to a fewer different talents.
"There was truthful overmuch inspiration to beryllium drawn, from idiosyncratic similar Britney Spears, who I adore," the histrion exclusively told E! News, "and each of the different unthinkable popular icons of our time."
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But the show's co-creator Sam Levinson, who is besides down Euphoria, insisted the amusement isn't based connected conscionable 1 star's tumultuous rise...and fall.
"We're not we're not trying to archer you a communicative astir immoderate peculiar popular star," helium said astatine the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. "We're looking much astatine however the satellite perceives a popular prima and the unit that it puts connected that individual."
"It's a batch of unit to constantly person to beryllium 'on' and to person to beryllium what everyone wishes you to be, and I deliberation that it's a lonely life," helium continued. "We tin each unreal that everyone is conscionable looking retired for someone's champion interests, but I deliberation fame truly corrupts."
New episodes of The Idol driblet Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected MAX.
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