The Weeknd and Lily Rose-Depp get up close and personal in first trailer for HBO’s ‘sleaziest love story’ The Idol-Charlotte Manning-Entertainment – Metro

The first trailer for The Weeknd’s drama The Idol has been released by HBO Max, after the Canadian singer debuted it on tour this weekend. 

Promised to be ‘the sleaziest love story in all of Hollywood’, we’re already buzzing ahead of the music star’s upcoming TV project.

The show is ‘set against the backdrop of the music industry’ and ‘centres on a self-help guru and leader of a modern-day cult, who develops a complicated relationship with an up-and-coming pop idol.’

After the chart-topper debuted the clip during the opening night of his After Hours Til Dawn tour over the weekend, network HBO Max has now shared a glimpse with fans. 

They captioned the trailer: ‘From the sick and twisted minds of Sam Levinson and @TheWeeknd, starring Lily-Rose Depp.

‘#THEIDOL is coming soon to HBO Max.’

The pair get frisky in a recording studio (Picture: HBO Max)

The trailer has it all, showing characters taking drugs, stripping off, and getting frisky in the bedroom in snippets from the upcoming drama. 

In one tense moment, The Weeknd’s character is seen asking Lily-Rose Depp’s character: ‘Why don’t you just be yourself?’

Lily-Rose Depp stars as an up-and-coming pop star (centre) (Picture: HBO Max)

The Weeknd looks sharp in the new drama (Picture: HBO Max)

To which she replies: ‘Because there’s nothing about me that’s relatable .’

The minute-long clip continues with more of the same scandalous activity, before The Weeknd’s character asks his love interest: ‘Do you trust me?’, to which she replies: ‘Not really.’

There is a lot of stripping off in the trailer (Picture: HBO Max)

The Weeknd is one of the starring names in the cast (Picture: HBO Max)

HBO Programming EVP Francesca Orsi said: ’When the multi-talented Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye, Reza Fahim and Sam Levinson brought us The Idol, it was clear their subversive, revelatory take on the cult of the music industry was unlike anything HBO had ever done before.’

Fans will know Sam from his work on the teen drama series Euphoria, which he created. 

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He has since been nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for the series.

The Girlfriend Experience‘s Amy Seimetz acted as director on the series, which was filmed in and around Los Angeles.

The Idol comes to HBO Max later this year.

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