The Weeknd aka Abel Tesfaye opens up about Mental Health Report by Mccallumj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Cinema's always kind of, for me, it's always kind of been my number one passion.
00:04And then, you know, I happened to sing and make music and kind of felt like a little detour,
00:12you know, a little cheat code to kind of get into this.
00:15And I always wanted to make movies, and I always wanted to make music with movies.
00:20So it's, during that journey, you always kind of hear and see the DNA of cinema in my albums,
00:27in my music videos, in my performances, in my stage.
00:32So it's always just been a part of me.
00:36The, it was always the third part, yeah.
00:40I didn't know what I wanted to say at the time, but I knew I was making some sort of saga.
00:46But that was more just for myself.
00:48I kind of wanted to establish that I wanted to make something that can end a story.
00:53And lo and behold, something actually happened to me that, you know,
00:58I felt like whatever I had in store, I had plans prior, threw it out the window
01:04and focused 110% on the story.
01:07I'm curious if there was any lessons that you learned from the Idol that you took into this project.
01:14Yeah, I mean, naturally you learned.
01:15That was the first thing we had ever done.
01:17And you always learn, you know, you're working with great, great artists at the time
01:21and still really close with everyone on set, from the set.
01:26But it was a learning experience.
01:28This felt a little bit, had a little bit more joy making it.
01:32It felt a little bit more personal.
01:34Idol didn't really feel like mine at the time.
01:37This one felt very much personal.
01:39And, you know, I'm saying this now, Trey really brought that.
01:43And Jenna, of course, brought the joy back in filming.
01:48I was juggling a million things at the time, you know, and I was on tour.
01:53Dealing with personal stuff as well, too.
01:55But that's happened before.
01:58I was able to still rely on my, you know, superpower.
02:03You know, I can go on stage and it's this cathartic experience with the fans.
02:08I can shut my world off for, you know, an hour and a half, two hours
02:12and just lose myself in my performance.
02:15And when it got to a point where it was affecting, the lines were blurring,
02:21you know, it was affecting my stage performance
02:24and it was affecting people spend a lot of money to come to these shows.
02:28You know, they spend money, they save up for a year.
02:31And it got to a point where, oh, my God, I can't give them what they want.
02:37My voice is failing me.
02:38And I knew at that moment I needed to sit down
02:41and figure out what was going on up there.