How can a showrunner be so capable of both the worst and the best? How to explain the abyss that separates the excellent first season’Euphoria of a second season poor or worse, of the indigestible The idol ? Sam Levinson’s way of working – or rather, his annoying tendency to do so stealing your colleagues’ work is one possible answer.
Petra Collins: the real name behind the Euphoria aesthetic
Remember: We learned in June that director Amy Seimetz originally wrote and directed The idol. After his abandonment of the project, the details of which are still very vague, Sam Levinson and The Weeknd, who judged Seimetz’s version “too feminist”, had taken over the reins of the series. The latter was finally shortened and discontinued after just one season, denounced unanimously by the press and the public.
On September 12, a user posts with the name bethany revealed that It wasn’t the first time a woman had been ousted and made invisible from a project that included Sam Levinson recovered all the profits and recognitionwith HBO’s complicity.
The young woman on Twitter posted a message by the Canadian artist Petra Collins. At 30, the photographer and cinematographer is followed by a million people on Instagram. For this reason he publishes sublime photos in which neon lights illuminate the female models and give off a powerful dreamlike sensation. A quick look at his works is enough to be impressed the resemblance to the aesthetics ofEuphoria. There’s a reason for this, and it’s as dramatic as it is revolting.
Petra Collins explained that Sam Levinson told her having written a series based on his photos, offering to direct it. The photographer then moved to Los Angeles and worked on the series for five months. He explains that he has “I imagined a whole world for Euphoria “. However, at the end of these months of work, HBO he told her she wouldn’t get hired after allclaiming that it was “too young.” At that point the artist thought the series would be abandoned altogether. Only a year later, when she left home, did she realize that her work had been stolen:
“A year later, leaving these rooms, I came across a billboard that was a perfect copy of my work. I started crying, I was so shocked. »
“I was devastated about it aesthetics is what I have built my whole life. Now I have to change it because that went mainstream and was stolen from me. The worst thing is when people who know nothing about this story come and tell me that the series looks like my photos. »
For the moment neither Sam Levinson nor HBO have reacted to Petra Collins’ statements.
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