Riley Keough has named Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin as a few of her reference factors for her characterisation of the title character in Amazon Prime Video’s Daisy Jones And The Six.
Keough defined that she checked out males for inspiration for Daisy Jones as she felt just like the present’s protagonist was “forward of her time” for a frontwoman in a band within the Nineteen Seventies.
“I used to be like, ‘I’m not going to solely take a look at ladies; I need to take a look at Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix’. I pulled affect from males as a result of I felt like Daisy was forward of her time, by way of how open and the way prepared she was to enter an area and be assured. I feel that was actually arduous for ladies to do,” she instructed Porter.
“I watched so many movies of [singers] in that period to get a way of their actions. There wasn’t the liberty there may be now for ladies, and that’s evident in how they behaved on stage. It was way more restricted within the Nineteen Seventies, so I struggled with that as a result of my physique actions are so inherently of my technology.”
Keough additionally mentioned the style through which she needed to painting Daisy’s substance abuse. “As a result of that is one thing I’ve skilled in my household,” she defined, “I needed the moments through which you see Daisy’s habit to not really feel glamorous; to guarantee that these moments had weight to them; that we’re seeing the humanity behind the closed doorways of what individuals are perceiving to be glamour.”
The actress additionally revealed that the variation of Taylor Jenkins-Reid’s bestselling ebook was meant to be filmed in 2020, however was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We ended up having a yr to rehearse and be taught our devices, and we turned a reasonably legit band [over Zoom],” recalled Keough. “I used to be like, ‘Wow, I can’t consider we’re enjoying reside and we all know what we’re doing’. We didn’t should faux the boldness in ourselves – it was genuine. In hindsight, a month or two of rehearsal [as originally planned] would have achieved nothing for us. It will have been plenty of pretending.”
Some followers of the present observed an Easter egg within the second episode of the present referencing Keough’s grandfather, Elvis Presley.
