Cover story Soulful With Riley Keough
It is a truth universally acknowledged (in Hollywood, anyway) that an actor in want of a part is sometimes required to lie. “We will say we can do many things that are not on our résumé,” nods Riley Keough over Sunday breakfast at a Los Angeles hotel. “When they [the casting directors of Amazon Prime’s Daisy Jones & the Six] asked, ‘Can she sing?’, I was like, ‘Just tell them yes, and I’ll figure it out before Monday!’” Prior to auditioning for the title role in the hotly anticipated TV adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel, which chronicles the escapades of a fictional rock band in the 1970s, the most singing Keough, 33, had done was humming around the house. However, to play Daisy Jones, the band’s formidable flame-haired frontwoman, she would have to do more than just sing; she’d have to learn how to belt. “I called my agent and I was like, ‘I don’t know how to get my voice to do that,’” she recalls, moving the dictaphone closer to her to offset how softly spoken she is. “They said, ‘Try singing a Lady Gaga song and see what happens’ – and I was like, ‘Sing Lady Gaga? Are you out of your mind?!’ I sat in my car and cried because I was like, ‘I can’t do it’. I hated not being able to do it.”
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