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Why The Weeknd Made the Bold Decision to Shoot ‘The Idol’ in His Own Home · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, well the buzzer over
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Speaker 1: the Weekend's upcoming TV show, The Idol co created with
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Speaker 1: you for his show runner Sam Levinson.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't be any bigger. So when the two of them
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Speaker 2: watched what they'd shot for the first season and realized
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Speaker 2: they wanted to reshoot nearly all of it, you might
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Speaker 2: think HBO would simply throw money at them to make
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Speaker 2: sure they got it right, but costs had to be
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Speaker 2: kept under control even for a show of this magnitude
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Speaker 2: and inspiration struck during a meeting at the Weekend's la home,
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Speaker 2: Sam Tell's w magazine, If we're going to reshoot from
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Speaker 2: the beginning, I knew it had to be for less money.
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Speaker 2: At Abel's house, looking around at the forty thousand square feet,
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Speaker 2: I said, it's stunning here. You can't buy production designs
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Speaker 2: like this. What if we shoot it here? Able to
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Speaker 2: put down a drink and said, do you have insurance?
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Speaker 2: I said yes, He said, I'm okay with it. They
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Speaker 2: even built a studio in the basement so the Weekend
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Speaker 2: and producer Mike Team could work on the score while
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Speaker 2: he wasn't on camera. The Idol It's HBO Max Sunday.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.