Bethenny Frankel Defends The Weeknd’s Sleazy Character In The Show, Says “Viewers Are Making Lily-Rose Depp And Him These Villains…”
The Weeknd’s sleazy character in ‘The Idol’ has been defended by Bethenny Frankel. Outspoken ‘Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis’ star Bethenny, 52, says there are scores of males in Hollywood identical to 33-year-old singer’s cult-like nightclub boss Tedros in HBO’s new shock present, which stars Lily-Rose Depp, 24, and has been hammered by critics for every little thing from its intercourse and nudity to appearing and a joke about Jeffrey Epstein’s underage victims.
Bethenny mentioned in a TikTok amid the continuing backlash towards the sequence and Tedros’ obsession with BDSM intercourse with Lily’s character Jocelyn: “There are 50 sleazy, sleazy Hollywood guys like (Tedros) that I bear in mind from dwelling in LA. It’s completely real looking, so what are we doing?”
Bethenny Frankel informed followers to recollect the present is a “fiction story” and viewers don’t must debate whether or not its content material is “empowering or not empowering”.
Bethenny Frankel added: “(Viewers are) making Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd these villains. It’s a fiction story! Don’t watch it! Like what occurred to everybody? All the things’s imagined to be rinsed? And there aren’t any fictional characters anymore? Has everybody misplaced their f****** minds? OK, you don’t just like the present, don’t watch it. Suck your thumb, get a pacifier and shut the f*** up!”
The Weeknd – actual title Abel Tesfaye – has been labelled a “comically unhealthy” actor within the present, which has additionally been branded as “torture p*rn”.
Abel lately defended his “douchebag” character and mentioned the criticism of ‘The Idol’ was “very a lot anticipated.”
He informed Selection: “We’re enjoying with genres with this present, we’re doing precisely what we needed to do.
“And none of this can be a shock. I’m excited for everybody to look at the remainder of the present.”
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