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Sam Levinson Reveals How The Weeknd IS and IS NOT Like His Character, Tedros, on ‘The Idol’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The Weekend's character Tedrose on a hit show, The Idol,
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  Speaker 2: might be the villain of twenty twenty three and at
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  Speaker 2: the very least a slippery, skanky guy. And Sam Levinson,
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  Speaker 2: who created the show at the Weekend, revealed in a
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  Speaker 2: new feature on Max the recipe they used in concocting Tedros.
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  Speaker 2: He says, we were in the Weekend's house talking it through,
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  Speaker 2: imagining the character of Tedros, and I said, imagine you
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  Speaker 2: still have all the dreams that you have with what
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to do in life in terms of music
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  Speaker 2: in your career, all the aspirations, but imagine you have
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  Speaker 2: none of the talent. That's who this character is. A
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  Speaker 2: new episode of The Idol hits Max on Sunday that's
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  Speaker 2: direct from Hollywood.