Fair warning: This story contains minor spoilers from the second episode of HBO's "The Icon," named "Twofold Dream," presently spilling on Max.
In the event that that intimate moment toward the finish of Episode 2 of HBO's "The Symbol" made you self-conscious, then, at that point, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye achieved his objective.
Tesfaye, who co-made "The Icon" with "Happiness'" Sam Levinson, talked with GQ after the scene, which includes his personality Tedros verbally enticing pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), ignited discussion on the web.
"There's nothing provocative about it," Tesfaye told GQ. "Anyway you're feeling watching that scene, whether it's distress, or you feel gross, or you feel humiliated for the characters. It's that large number of feelings amounting to: this person is in far over his head, this present circumstance is one where he shouldn't be here." In the scene, Jocelyn strips for Tedros on her bed as he shoots physically realistic orders that are excessively express to rehash in this article.
"The sex, it's so greedy," Tesfaye proceeded. "Particularly in Episode 2. 'Greedy' is the main word I can imagine [to depict it]. [Tedros] can't trust he's there. He falls off like such a failure. Those minutes are the humankind that you track down in a mental case, the fatal flaw."
In the series, which debuted the second of its five episodes on Sunday, Tesfaye plays a religion like club magnet who goes after a weak pop symbol attempting to make new music after the passing of her mom wrecked her field visit. "You take a gander at him, and this is a score — Jocelyn may be the greatest score he's at any point had. It's impossible to miss," Tesfaye says of Tedros. "He's indulging, he strolls into this house checking out like, 'Goddamn, am I way over my head? This can be the greatest work I've at any point finished.'"
Tesfaye added of his personality, "He's disgusting, a mental case — why gloss over it? … There's nothing truly strange or spellbinding about him. What's more, we did that intentionally with his look, his outfits, his hair — the person's a douche. You can see he thinks often such a great amount about what he resembles, and he assumes he looks great. However at that point you see these peculiar snapshots of him alone — he practices, he's determined. Furthermore, he really wants to do that, or he doesn't have anything, he's wretched. Which is valid for a many individuals who are completely out of place, put into these situations."
Episode 2 of "The Symbol" drew around 800,000 watchers, down 12% from the primary episode. However immediate review on the series is down, deferred survey of Episode 1 following multi week has dominated that of "Elation" and "The White Lotus." "The Symbol" airs Sundays on HBO at 6 p.m. PT and is accessible to stream on Max.
