Did Sam Levinson Use BLACKPINK’s Jennie Kim Stardom Just To Gain Viewership For The Idol?

BLACKPINK’s Jennie Kim role in The Weeknd and Sam Levinson’s ‘The Idol’ is limited, with Rolling Stone reporting that she barely got air time and an inconsequential story arc. She is set to play a bisexual character in HBO’s upcoming “The Idol” series.

Jennie’s role got limited to “three or four lines an episode,” and Levison “didn’t let her say much.” Her job “was to sit there and look pretty, basically.”

Check out social media reaction to the news.

jennie literally being the only reason i was going to tune into the idol…someone pls send me all her clips with context clues. im not about to waste hours of my life knowing how sam levinson loves to unecessarily elongate runtime and think hes doing something pic.twitter.com/wo3uEcazrY

— bloom 🕊 (@gardeniablooom) March 1, 2023

we need to free jennie and get her a show where she’s the lead because sam levinson needs to be st*ned

— ً (@bIinkshit) March 1, 2023

https://twitter.com/privekaeya/status/1630997617911156736?s=46&t=nPFl55WlJ3lv9i6TQwe5sQ

Sam levinson casting jennie in a sad excuse of an hbo series branding it as his “biggest get” just as a ruse directed towards the general public and fans who support her. took advantage & used her for clout and exposure knowing damn well kpop stans would eat it all up. he’s SICK!

— ✿ (@jenniesrare) March 1, 2023

If Jennie doesn't have the screentime that she deserves, I will just see her scenes posted by people. F U Sam Levinson

— Bossbi*chᴼᴬ (@itglobalgirl) March 1, 2023

Rolling Stone reported earlier today that the production delays on ‘The Idol’ were caused by Sam Levinson taking over as director and scrapping the nearly-finished project to rewrite and reshoot it. 

Levinson reportedly increased “the disturbing sexual content and nudity to surpass that of Euphoria.”

One of the proposed scenes involved Lily-Rose Depp carrying an egg in her vagina & if she broke or dropped the egg, The Weeknd’s character would refuse to “rape” her.

Levinson ultimately scrapped Amy Seimetz’s approach to the story, “making it less about a troubled starlet falling victim to a predatory industry figure and fighting to reclaim her own agency and more of a degrading love story with a hollow message.”