“The Idol” actor Jane Adams has three alternative words for “feminists” who proceed to consider that the ladies of the controversial HBO series, including star Lily-Rose Depp, were exploited during filming:
“Go f–k yourself.”
Rumors that the series was unseemly “torture porn” stem from a Rolling Stone article published before “The Idol” even premiered.
“What’s amazing to me isn’t any one’s listening — I’ve not seen that before in all my days, such a dogged ‘We refuse to vary the narrative,’” Adams, 58, recently told Vanity Fair. “I especially wish to say to all of the feminists, ‘Go f–k yourself.’ All these women that I’m working with are talking about their experience, and also you’re not listening. You’re not listening!”
Thirteen people allegedly related to the project claimed that the show got a dark, misogynistic twist when star and co-creator The Weeknd tapped “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson to reimagine it.
“It was like every rape fantasy that any toxic man would have within the show — after which the girl comes back for more since it makes her music higher,” one anonymous source told the publication.
Nonetheless, Depp, Adams and actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph have all expressed otherwise because the show — which streams on Max — continued to face criticism from viewers.
“The Idol” told the story of Jocelyn (Depp), a troubled pop star, who tries to get her profession back on the right track when she meets a sleazy, controlling night club owner named Tedros (The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye.)
Adams portrayed Nikki Katz, a money-hungry record-label executive who — spoiler alert — gets a lap dance from one in all Jocelyn’s latest eccentric friends within the season finale.
“I really like the show,” Adams doubled down with Vanity Fair. “Nowadays, to certain people, you almost need to apologize if you dislike something or you like something. I don’t really care anymore. That’s one advantage of being a gray-haired lady — it’s almost such as you get a license to not care.”
She later added: “Free speech is the license to offend, period, full stop. The funniest stuff, to me, goes to offend a gaggle of individuals irrespective of what you do.”
HBO declined to comment when contacted by The Post.
The Post also reached out to a representative for Adams for comment.
Depp most recently defended the show to Vogue Australia, claiming that its infamous sex scenes are “vital” and “intentional.
She also maintained that the environment on set was a “really secure, creative space.”
“I’ve never felt more respected and more secure on a set, truthfully,” Depp said. “And I feel the trust that all of us built with one another, you and I, and Sam and I, and Abel and I, that may only make for a extremely safe-feeling set.”
Randolph told Variety that her on-set experience was nothing like what was described within the Rolling Stone article.
“There have been long hours. But every show is that way,” she of the one detail that was “absolutely 100% true.”
“I didn’t feel like I used to be being abused over the hours. There wasn’t anything out of the extraordinary or abusive or crazy,” she added.
HBO has yet to announce whether “The Idol” will get a second season.
