"I’ve had my eye on Anton’s work for some time,” says Tesfaye. “We hired him during the Starboy tour to do some visual content for the screens and ever since then I was always curious to see what he can do with a complete project. When I was writing the concept of a ‘character’ losing his mind in Vegas… I kept thinking about his style and how I felt he would be the right person to execute the vision.”

Soon enough, that character took on a life beyond that first video, and Tammi was there every step of the way. "After we did ‘Heartless’ I started falling in love with ‘The Character,’” writes Tesfaye. “I wanted to see him on screen more and I could see that Anton wanted to shoot more of me playing him. We had so much footage left from ‘Heartless’ that it was heartbreaking to cut some of it out. So I quickly wrote a continuation: ‘What happens after he throws up?’ Anton fell in love with the story and we were on our way.”

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