# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJULd_tNiYq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30211781-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-06T14:22:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

TheWeeknd’s film nerdiness is his most personally endearing trait. Before he became one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, the singer born Abel Tesfaye was a homeless teenager in Toronto who found temporary solace in the aisles of a local boutique movie rental store called Queen Video. Through cinema, Tesfaye learned how to create a world: his visual identities, from his groundbreaking early mixtapes to his diamond-selling present, have a depth that goes beyond your average pop star’s eras. His jump to feature films felt inevitable, but also promising.⁠
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Hurry Up Tomorrow, his first feature-length due in theaters May 16, is that leap. A companion piece with the 2024 album of the same name, the psychological horror-drama stars Tesfaye as a fictionalized version of himself who’s sent into a mental tailspin after losing his voice onstage (this is based on a real event in 2022 when Tesfaye was forced to end a show in California when he was suddenly unable to sing). The film is co-written by Tesfaye with Reza Fahim, who helped script HBO’s somewhat unfairly reviled The Idol, and Trey Edward Shults. The 36-year-old Shults is the director behind Krisha, It Comes At Night, and Waves, independent hits that helped establish A24 as a cultural force.⁠
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Read jjjoorrddaannn’s interview with Tesfaye and Shults at the link in bio.⁠
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📸 Andrew Cooper via Lionsgate⁠
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#TheWeeknd #HurryUpTomorrow #TheIdol hurryuptomorrowmovie

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