'There's nothing sexy about it ... the guy's a douchebag' (via toofab)
"Even the sex, it's so gluttonous. Especially in episode 2," he added."'Gluttony' is the only word I can think of [to describe it]. He can't believe he's there. He comes off like such a loser. Those moments are the humanity that you find in a psychopath, the chink in his armor."
Tesfaye said"there's nothing really mysterious or hypnotizing" about his character, noting that everything about his appearance was intentional."We did that on purpose with his look, his outfits, his hair -- the guy’s a douchebag. You can tell he cares so much about what he looks like, and he thinks he looks good. But then you see these weird moments of him alone -- he rehearses, he's calculated. And he needs to do that, or he has nothing, he's pathetic.
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