{"id":22237,"date":"2023-06-12T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/lily-rose-depp-stands-by-role-in-the-idol-amid-more-torture-porn-accusations-against-show\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T22:01:47","slug":"lily-rose-depp-stands-by-role-in-the-idol-amid-more-torture-porn-accusations-against-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/lily-rose-depp-stands-by-role-in-the-idol-amid-more-torture-porn-accusations-against-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily-Rose Depp stands by role in &apos;The Idol&apos; amid more &apos;torture porn&apos; accusations against show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-06-12\" datetime=\"1686607307\" pubdate=\"\">12 June 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lily-Rose Depp is standing by her role in \u2018The Idol\u2019 after its shock second episode aired.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Lily-Rose Depp is standing by her role in \u2018The Idol\u2019 after its shock second episode aired<\/p>\n<p>Fans have again branded the HBO show \u201ctorture porn\u201d after the latest instalment in the series saw the 24-year-old actress\u2019 co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/the-weeknd\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Weeknd<\/a>, 33 \u2013 real name Abel Tesfaye \u2013 involved in an X-rated scene with a female character.<\/p>\n<p>Lily-Rose, daughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/johnny-depp\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,johnny-depp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnny Depp<\/a>, who plays singer Jocelyn in \u2018Euphoria\u2019 creator Sam Levinson\u2019s drama, has filled her Instagram stories with clips and trailers from episode 2, captioning one of them: \u201cEpisode 2, out now (heart emoji.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has also left the message she posted when \u2018The Idol\u2019 premiered at the top of her feed, which said: \u201cI can\u2019t put into words how I\u2019m feeling right now! This show and the people I was lucky enough to make it with mean everything to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShooting it was the most special experience I\u2019ve ever had, and I thank my lucky stars every day for the most beautiful little family we all built together. My idol fam you know who you are \u2013 I love you guys so much. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSam and Abel, thank you for letting me be your Jocelyn. I\u2019m still pinching myself that you picked me. Thank you for making my dreams come true, I love you both forever. <\/p>\n<p>\nCan\u2019t wait for you guys to meet our family\u2026. Xoxoxoxo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nShe has backed the show amid calls for her to be \u201cprotected\u201d after shooting her raunchy role in \u2018The Idol\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe show sees her singing superstar character Jocelyn suffer a breakdown and get caught up in the clutches of Tedros, a modern-day cult leader played by The Weeknd, who is also the show\u2019s creator along with Sam Levinson.<\/p>\n<p>\nA Hollywood insider told Page Six about their fears Lily-Rose could end up being typecast in X-rated roles in the wake of the show: \u201cLily has to be protected, that is the most important thing.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAside from the fact whether \u2018The Idol\u2019 is good or merely torture porn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother Hollywood production source told Page Six: \u201cShe\u2019s still so young and impressionable\u2026 she says she feels empowered, but she has two men in charge (The Weeknd and Sam) telling her what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nLily previously defended the show\u2019s explicit scenes and creator Sam against accusations he has turned his new drama into \u201ctorture porn and a rape fantasy\u201d, according to insiders who spoke to Rolling Stone for an expos\u00e9 featuring anonymous interviews with those working on the series.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said at the Cannes Film Festival about her rising singer star character: \u201cJocelyn is a born and bred performer \u2013 and I think that extends to every aspect of her life, not just her professional life\u2026 I also think that the occasional bareness of the character physically mirrors the bareness that we get to see emotionally in her.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI was given the privilege of being really involved in the creation of this character and the ins and outs of how she expresses herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/lily-rose-depp-stands-role-idol-amid-torture-porn-accusations-show-1380359.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 June 2023 Lily-Rose Depp is standing by her role in \u2018The Idol\u2019 after its shock second episode aired. Lily-Rose Depp is standing by her role in \u2018The Idol\u2019 after its shock second episode aired Fans have again branded the HBO show \u201ctorture porn\u201d after the latest instalment in the series saw the 24-year-old actress\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2177,2164,68,2163,2167,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-22237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-abel-tesfaye","9":"tag-jocelyn","10":"tag-johnny-depp","11":"tag-lily-rose-depp","12":"tag-sam-levinson","13":"tag-the-weeknd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}