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  • Juno Temple and Riley Keough on Growing Up But Remaining “Rising Stars”

    Juno Temple and Riley Keough on Growing Up But Remaining “Rising Stars”

    In Reunited, Awards Insider hosts a conversation between two Emmy contenders who have collaborated on a previous project. Today, we speak with Riley Keough, who stars in Daisy Jones & the Six, and Juno Temple, who appears in Ted Lasso. They previously worked together on the 2012 indie horror film Jack & Diane.

    “Do you remember the phone in the toilet and the rice, the whole thing?” Juno Temple asks Riley Keough with a smile moments after we sign on to a Zoom.

    “Oh, my God, didn’t we put it in quinoa?” Keough replies, with a laugh.

    Drunkenly dropping your phone into a toilet at a bar and then hoping the grain gods can save it from an early death was just one of the many rites of passage the two actors shared when they lived together in New York when they were in their early 20s. At the time, they were filming the 2012 indie horror film Jack & Diane, in which they play, as Keough puts it, “lesbian werewolves,” or two women who fall into an obsessive love with each other.

    More than 10 years later, they’ve both grown up, and their careers have grown as well. Temple has just wrapped up her third and most likely final season of Ted Lasso, playing scrappy publicist Keeley Jones, while Keough transformed into a ’70s rock star for the breakout hit limited series Daisy Jones & The Six.

    Both currently in Los Angeles for a bit—though Temple says she’s “very transient right now” and will soon be back in the UK—the pair of good friends reflect on their transformative shows, what it’s like to let go of a part, and why they’re finally looking for grown-up roles.

    Vanity Fair: When did you first meet?

    Riley Keough: Was it in our apartment? We were living together for the film we were doing in an apartment. I feel like I just met you there.

    Juno Temple: I think you just had your hair cut and dyed.

    Keough: It was the first time I’d ever cut my hair in that way because my hair is really important to me, and so it was a real crazy thing. I think we just met in the apartment — which is crazy, to put two people in an apartment to live together who’ve never met.

    Temple: You walked me through my first panic attack. Literally, I thought I was dying and you were like, “No, you’re not. It’s okay. I know what this is.”

    Keough: I’m like, “I get this every day.”

    How would you two describe where you were in your acting careers at that point?

    Keough: Well, Juno was much more established than I was at the time. I think this was the third movie I’d ever done.

    Temple: I remember that you had just booked Mad Max: Fury Road before coming out there, and you were supposed to go do it straight after and then it kept getting pushed, right?

    Keough: Yes. I’d maybe done a couple jobs before this movie. And Juno was a proper established indie queen, I think.

    Temple: I don’t remember that, but I definitely had said yes to anything and everything and wanted to work all the time, which I still I do. I love work so much.

    This was around the time you started landing on “Rising Star” lists, wasn’t it Juno?

    Temple: That was after Killer Joe. That, for me, was really a gamechanger in how people saw me as an actress. And that Rising Star Award, kind of coincided with that — which again, is a decade ago — [I’m] still rising. [Laughs]

    Keough: I know. I think that all the time when I’m like, “I’ve been hearing this for fucking 15 years.”

    Temple: Even one when Ted Lasso came out. Someone emailed me something saying a link to IMDB’s top people to watch. I was like, “I’m in my thirties.”

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  • Riley Keough Finds Her Voice

    Riley Keough Finds Her Voice

    What was that audition process like?

    I had to act first. Well, I think I simultaneously had to send in an acting audition and also something of me singing. I sent like a little voice note, I think of me and my husband singing together. And my voice was very soft. It was by no means like a powerful singing video. And they kind of said, “This is great, but Daisy needs to be able to really sing.” I think at the time they were looking at professional singers. So I sent another video in, but I was kind of hitting this wall where I was thinking that I wasn’t capable of doing what they needed in terms of vocal performance. They said she needs to belt. I didn’t know, literally, how to do that with my voice. So, I was sitting in the car and my agent was like, “just try and sing the Lady Gaga song ‘Shallow.’” And I was like, “you don’t just, like, bust out Lady Gaga.” So I was sitting in the car and I pulled over and just tried, and it just sounded so bad. It just sounded so horrible. And I sat there and I started crying because I was just so frustrated. It wasn’t even just about getting the role. It was that I’m not gonna be able to do something that I had an idea that maybe I could do, if I put work in. 

    I sat there and I was just kind of feeling sorry for myself, and then I said I’m going to get a vocal coach and really give it a chance. So I went to a coach and I worked with him over the weekend. And then I went home and all of a sudden, “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd came into my head. I think in hindsight it was just in my key. So I went back again and I was able to belt for the first time. 

    Because of your performance in the show, I assumed that you had a long history with singing, obviously with your family legacy and music. Would you say that it’s because of your family’s legacy that music is something you shied away from on purpose, or was it just because acting was more of your interest?

    I don’t think I shied away from it on purpose. From as far back as I can remember, I was just obsessed with movies and acting, and writing and I wanted to direct. I don’t think I really thought about it. I loved music, but it wasn’t something that I felt drawn to in the same way that I did with film.

    You talked to my colleague about how when you were actually in production, it was sort of a really tough time for you personally and dealing with some autoimmune stuff. Did you ever think about backing out of the project?

    I had lost my brother while we were sort of on pandemic hiatus. We were supposed to film a few months later, and at the time I was like, “I don’t think I’m able to perform well or give anything.” But then it pushed again, it pushed like six months. I kind of went, “okay, well maybe this happened for a reason.” And that push also really helped us with our music and our instruments and our singing because we ended up having a year to rehearse. So in many ways it felt like it came exactly when it was supposed to. I also have some autoimmune issues, so I was really struggling. But I just decided to do it. And I think there was something about this project that was really joyous and different. Typically, I’ve done darker, more serious work and, and I really felt like I needed to do something that felt like I needed to do something that felt like a fun experience at this point in my life.

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  • Riley Keough Was Born in the Spotlight. Now She’s There on Her Own Terms

    Riley Keough Was Born in the Spotlight. Now She’s There on Her Own Terms

    There’s something amusingly meta about watching Riley Keough watch a Fleetwood Mac performance. The real band’s influence on Daisy Jones & the Six, in which she stars as the titular Stevie Nicks–esque singer, has been well-documented. But Keough was surprised to learn that one of the group’s original members has, in fact, acknowledged her series.

    The day before our Zoom call, Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham—whose relationship with Nicks inspired the characters of Daisy and Billy Dunne (played by Sam Claflin)—posted a TikTok alluding to renewed chatter about their breakup. Buckingham posted a clip from a 1997 performance of “Silver Springs,” a searing kiss-off song Nicks wrote about Buckingham. “I heard we’re talking about that ’97 ‘Silver Springs’ again,” he wrote. 

    When I alert Keough to this all-important development, she immediately pulls the video up on her laptop. “I need to see this right now,” she says. “I’m wasting our interview because I need to see if this is fake news.” Keough watches the TikTok with delight, smiling in a dazed way before commenting beneath the video with three simple words: “Yes we are.”

    The fact that Buckingham felt the need to give Daisy Jones a nod is proof of the show’s impressive reach. Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel, the Prime Video series has hit number one on the streamer; its accompanying album, Aurora, featuring the cast singing fictional ’70s hits, peaked at number one in the US on iTunes. It’s undeniably the biggest role of Keough’s career thus far—and a moment that she’s referred to as “cosmic.” But stepping into a spotlight that she’s tried to shirk most of her life took a concerted effort, Keough tells me.

    The 33-year-old actor is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley and the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley. By the time she reached high school, she had called both Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage stepfathers. “I grew up with a family that was very much in the public eye, and my childhood was really intense in that way, especially in the ’90s and early 2000s,” Keough says. “It was probably similar to what the Kardashian kids experience now—not being able to go out the front of buildings and having to sneak around and not being able to do…” She trails off. “Just a lot of attention, not being able to do normal things. I really started to appreciate normal things in life—being able to go to the coffee shop and sit there.”

    As an adult, Keough has largely evaded the nepo-baby conversation (and dissection of her personal life) by acting in indie projects, including American Honey and Zola. (One of the glaring exceptions is 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, through which she met her Australian stuntman husband, Ben Smith-Petersen. The two now share a newborn daughter.) “I didn’t actively make choices that were obviously going to change my life,” she says. “I was always trying to navigate how I can perform and also have this thing that’s really special to me, which is being able to do normal things in the world. Subconsciously I was always operating this way, avoiding things that felt…I don’t know, that would change that for my life.” 

    Daisy, with its built-in fan base and tangential ties to her musical pedigree, seems like it would have totally derailed the plan. But in the last five years, Keough says, she gave herself freedom to say yes. “I did know that Daisy Jones was going to be a big show. I just stopped caring as much about the outcome,” she explains. “Ultimately, it was just something that in my soul I felt like I needed to do. I also felt like I wanted to do something that would bring joy to my life. I’ve been through a lot in life prior to Daisy, and I just wanted to be in a space at work that felt like fun and not heavy, and dark, and serious. And the environment of that show was all of those things.”

    Embracing Daisy also meant learning to sing and play instruments, which the cast did via virtual band camp during a pandemic-induced delay. The fruits of Keough and the cast’s labor are on full display in the season finale, where Daisy Jones & the Six perform their final concert in Chicago. Wearing a vintage gold Halston cape, an homage to Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman,” Keough’s Daisy sings like she knows it’s the last time. These live performances were filmed over a week of overnight shoots in New Orleans, where Keough and her cohort would sing until the sun rose. “It was totally chaotic, but it was the moment we’d all been waiting for,” she says, adding, “There wasn’t a part of us that felt like we were actors anymore.”

    LACEY TERRELL

    Keough’s emotionally charged performance includes loads of heated glances at Claflin’s Billy. At one point in the finale, a newly relapsed Billy tells Daisy that they can “be broken together” because his wife, Camila (Camila Morrone), has left him. But after 10 episodes’ worth of self-destructive behavior, Daisy declares, “I don’t want to be broken”—a moment of agency not afforded to the character in Reid’s book. 

    “She just very simply doesn’t want this for herself anymore—especially not this way, not the way that he’s coming to her. It’s not that version of Billy that she’s in love with. She’s in love with all of Billy, but she’s mostly been around him sober,” Keough explains. “So seeing that this is what she’s bringing out of him doesn’t feel good to her. It’s a moment of power for her to go, I’m going to walk away from this.”

    Daisy’s substance abuse, which Keough has said she approached with particular sensitivity “because this is something I’ve experienced in my family,” is exacerbated by both her untenable dynamic with Billy and the crippling lack of love she’s received from her mother.

    Motherhood is a major preoccupation for Daisy across the final episodes. She wards off having children for fear of inflicting the kind of trauma Daisy experienced upon them. Then, after a crushing phone call with her absentee mother in the finale, Daisy shouts, “Next time you wanna hear my voice, how ’bout you try the fucking radio.” 

    “I didn’t experience it personally, but I’ve seen [that mother-daughter dynamic] with a few people in my life. And it’s totally heartbreaking,” Keough says. “Some people are lucky to have mothers that are very nurturing and loving, and some people aren’t. That is a place of great wound, when either parent isn’t showing up in the way that the child wants them to. It is supposed to be the one person who loves you no matter what. And so when you don’t experience that, I could see how that could turn into, Well, I’m not lovable because the one person who’s supposed to love me more than anything in the world doesn’t. Not to say I don’t think her mom ever loved her, but it’s a very complicated relationship and woman.”

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  • ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’: All the Biggest Changes From Book to Series

    ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’: All the Biggest Changes From Book to Series

    Many of the weeds, including discussions of Daisy’s billing with the Six, have been removed in the TV adaptation. In the book, she officially joins the Six after performing an acoustic set of her songs with Eddie before a live audience, including a Rolling Stone reporter. That journalist, Jonah Berg, will later write a cover story with the headline, “The Six That Should Be Seven,” and insist that she “belonged in the band” (more on that storyline in episode six). But the series has Daisy’s admittance into the band sealed with Camila’s permission, telling her at a party that the band is “a family—we’ll take care of you if you take care of us.”

    Track 5: Fire

    How Karen and Graham Get Together

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    In the show’s fourth episode, Graham makes the secret crush he’s long been harboring for Karen known by kissing her at a party. While she initially laughs off his advance, in the fifth episode Karen grows jealous of Graham’s romance with a Barry Manilow-loving woman named Caroline (Olivia Rose Keegan) and is awakened to her true feelings for him. Karen makes the first move in the novel, asking Graham on the phone one night: “How come you’ve never made a move on me?” He says, “I don’t take shots I know I’ll miss.” She replies, “I don’t think you’ll miss, Dunne.” 

    Track 6: Whatever Gets You Thru the Night

    The Role of That Rolling Stone Reporter

    The book version of Rolling Stone’s Jonah Berg (played in the series by Nick Pupo) takes an interest in covering the band much earlier, writing an article that plays a key part in making Daisy and the Six one musical entity. In the series, Jonah is called in to write a puff piece about the group by producer Teddy Wright. The focus of his piece, however, becomes simmering tensions within the band and between Daisy and Billy. Eventually, Billy spills details about Daisy’s addiction to avoid the publication revealing how his own rehab stint prevented him from being present at his first daughter’s birth, a story Daisy tells the reporter herself. Similar events take place in the book, but occur much later in a second Berg piece tied to Aurora’s release.

    The Songs, They Are A-Changin’

    Much of the sixth episode is devoted to the creation of Aurora, Daisy Jones and the Six’s album. With the exception of “Please,” most of the fictional songs proposed for Aurora in the book have been scrapped or significantly altered.  “Impossible Woman,” Billy’s impassioned plea to Daisy about her sobriety, becomes “More Fun to Miss;” “The Canyon,” Graham’s lost ode to Karen, doesn’t factor into the series. The lyrics to “Regret Me” are also different, although the song remains. 

    Mick Riva Is Missing

    There is a Taylor Jenkins Reid universe, wherein the author includes nods to fictional characters from her previous novels in each new work. In Daisy, Mick Riva, a fictional singer first introduced in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, attends Daisy’s wild party at Chateau Marmont, which she throws instead of attending the Six’s recording session. Shortly after Mick shows up, an extremely intoxicated Daisy takes a dip in the pool with all of her clothes on and later cuts her bare foot on glass. This scene is recreated in the series, but Mick is nowhere to be seen. 

    Billy and Daisy’s First Kiss

    A major point of contention—and inspiration for Daisy’s scorched-earth song “Regret Me”—is a kiss (or lack thereof) with Billy. In the book, the pair’s lips barely graze during a songwriting session before Billy shuts Daisy down. The series has them actually pull the trigger and passionately kiss during a contentious recording session for “More Fun to Miss,” Billy’s blistering song about Daisy. In fact, everything about the increasingly charged Daisy-Billy-Camila love triangle is far more pronounced on screen than in the book. Billy says in the novel that “there was this unspoken thing between Camila and I,” adding, “in some marriages you don’t need to say everything that you feel.” But Camila more pointedly tells Billy at episode’s end: “If you love her, if you ever do, that is when this ends.”

    Camila and Eddie

    However subtle, there is reference to potential infidelity on Camila’s part in the book, when she has a long lunch with her high school prom date. “She was gone four hours,” Billy recalls in the novel. “No one eats lunch for four hours.” But in the show, it’s bass player Eddie with whom Camila shares a few stolen moments. “There’s a moment where Camila talks about going out and seeing an old friend. And you don’t know exactly what that means because the book is told in the style of an oral history, you don’t ever know exactly what happened,” showrunner Will Graham told Vanity Fair. “So in the show we had to find answers to those things that felt satisfying and real, but also hopefully are surprises and fun for the fans.”

    Track 7: She’s Gone

    imone’s Queer Identity

    As already established, Simone plays a much larger role in the series than the book. This includes examination of her sexuality in episode 7, which shows Simone’s musical career taking off in New York City clubs—and the ways her romance with Bernice could complicate her career. “In the first conversation I had with Taylor, I said, ‘What would you want to see more of in the show that you didn’t get to do in the book?’ And she said more of Simone,” Graham, who directed episode 7, told Vanity Fair. At the end of the episode, Daisy even uses Simone’s identity against her in a particularly heated moment, asking, “Are you in love with me? Is that what this is?”

    Daisy’s Marriage

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  • How Showrunner Will Graham Made ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Feel Like Home

    How Showrunner Will Graham Made ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Feel Like Home

    With each new installment of  Daisy Jones & the Six, showrunner Will Graham finds himself on social media, perusing fan Twitter threads and soaking in the reaction to his latest Prime Video series. “You spend years building a house, and you have no idea if anyone’s going to want to move in,” he tells Vanity Fair on a recent Zoom call. “Then fans move in and make it their own, and move around all the furniture, and ask questions about why this is on the wall. But they live there, and it’s such an incredible experience.”

    It’s that very investment that makes Daisy Jones equally fun and terrifying, says Graham, who also executive produces the series and directs episode seven.

    Adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel about a Fleetwood Mac-esque ’70s rock band, the author gave Graham, as well as cocreators Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, free rein. “Taylor said from the start, ‘Look, in order to be good, the show is going to have to be its own thing,’” Graham says. “So what was important to her was that we not change the characters, which none of us ever wanted to do because that’s why we’re here anyway.”

    When shaping Daisy, the enigmatic lead singer brought to life onscreen by Riley Keough, Graham looked to some of the most adored—and analyzed—women in music. “Daisy’s really struggling with the nature of her own genius, and in part she needs Billy (played by Sam Claflin) as kinetic energy to get her to really sit down and write the songs that she’s capable of writing,” Graham says. “What she has to do to really face her own voice and become the full artist of Daisy Jones the same way that Stevie Nicks did is a fascinating story.”

    In the show’s seventh episode, where Daisy retreats to Greece after a bruising Rolling Stone story, Graham used Joni Mitchell as a blueprint, reading about “moments where she really wanted to throw herself into romance and fans, and then moments where she sort of retreated to her land in Canada and had to run away from people for a bit.” 

    But most of episode seven belongs to emerging disco queen Simone Jackson (Nabiyah Be), a relatively minor character in the novel that bursts to life in the series. “In the first conversation I had with Taylor, I said, ‘What would you want to see more of in the show that you didn’t get to do in the book?’ And she said more of Simone,” Graham says. The showrunner, who identifies as queer, reveled in the opportunity to explore how disco was born from predominantly Black and queer spaces. “We really wanted to give Simone a joy that she finds in these clubs and in the music. She’s someone who’s been looking for her voice, and she finds her community—she falls in love with someone and finds herself as an artist all in the same moment.”

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    Graham was able to recreate this communal atmosphere when filming the episode’s final scenes on the Greek island of Hydra. While shooting club scenes that were meant to take place in New York, production worked to fill the scene with real queer extras. “We reached out to the African immigrant communities in Athens and had this amazing experience on set where basically a lot of them were saying, we don’t have this place in real life,” Graham says. “So making those sequences became a real parallel to the show of people finding a safe space. It was really emotional.”

    Exploration of a found family is a theme in Graham’s work, including his TV reimagining of another beloved title, A League of Their Own. He and cocreator Abbi Jacobson centered their version of the story on queer, racially diverse women. “I love to write about people who care about something more than they care about themselves,” Graham says. “That’s also very often true of queer people. We don’t always have a choice, right? But writing about people who are obsessed with something bigger than themselves in a sense means you’re writing about crazy people who would do anything for baseball, or do anything for music, which is incredibly fun.”

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  • Riley Keough Texted Austin Butler “Good Luck” Before the Oscars

    Riley Keough Texted Austin Butler “Good Luck” Before the Oscars

    Elvis star Austin Butler didn’t bring home the Oscar for best actor, but that wasn’t for a lack of support from the Presley family.

    Riley Keough, granddaughter of Elvis Presley and daughter of the late Lis Marie Presley, attended the Vanity Fair Oscar party Sunday—and there was one person she couldn’t wait to run into. “I’m excited to see Austin,” the actress said, before revealing the duo had already interacted earlier that day. “I texted him this morning and said good luck, and I’m so happy I’ll see him tonight.”

    Butler broke out as a bona fide movie star thanks to his performance as the King in director Baz Luhrmann’s best picture-nominated biopic Elvis. Having won multiple prizes in the leadup to the Oscars, the 31-year-old actor was viewed as one of the frontrunners for best actor. In the end, The Whale star Brendan Fraser emerged victorious on Sunday night.

    “Playing Elvis made me think about the fact that you can have seemingly everything and yet still feel empty,” Butler previously told Vanity Fair. “You can have all your dreams come true and still be searching for something deeper and feel very alone. You experience a ton of public love, then you’re back in a silent room.”

    Keough, at least, was far from alone when she walked the blue carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. She was joined by a few of her costars from the new Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones & The Six, with Suki Waterhouse even interrupting her interview live—“just because I love you so much,” she told Keough.

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  • What Shows Should You Stream This Spring?

    What Shows Should You Stream This Spring?

    I’m at that point in life where I’m re-watching my favorite comfort shows for the zillionth time because nothing else is on. All of the shows I watch aren’t currently airing, and quite frankly, I’m bored. I can essentially quote New Girl word-for-word now because of this agonizing lull.

    And while Zooey Deschanel is never the wrong choice, I’m already counting down the days until I have something new to watch. There are plenty of good shows in existence, but when it takes Euphoria three years to create a new season…times get tough.

    Luckily enough for me – and the rest of the world – there have been a few recent announcements that have restored my faith in the streaming service gods. The TV networks have seen me re-watch Ted Lasso for the umpteenth time and decided it’s finally time to give me a new season. We can collectively release a sigh of relief.

    HBO Max, Apple TV+, Netflix, and more have been slowly announcing their upcoming shows for spring 2023 and I’m finally feeling better. I can feel myself being released from the grip of excessive reality television as we speak. I’ve even been watching countless re-runs of Degrassi (which is Drake at his best, by the way).

    If you’re feeling a little uninspired, underwhelmed, and burnt out from browsing Hulu’s main page for a show to stick out – same. But there’s hope on the horizon. Here are the best shows to stream this spring across all platforms:

    Ted Lasso – Apple TV+, March 15

    With 40 Emmy nominations and 11 wins, the accolades speak for themselves.
    Ted Lasso follows Jason Sudeikis as the title character throughout his time coaching AFC Richmond soccer as an American football coach. With lovable characters like Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), it’s hard not to become obsessed with the show.

    Everyone loves a good underdog story, and this one is no exception. This season’s dilemma? How will Coach Nate coaching Rupert’s team affect AFC Richmond’s future?

    Succession – HBO Max, March 26

    Another huge contender at the Emmy’s: HBO Max’s Succession. It’s a drama series reminiscent of the Murdaugh family, with Logan Roy (Brian Cox) heading the media conglomerate Waystar Royco. Although his retirement is ever-looming, his children Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Shiv (Sarah Snook) are constantly competing for a spot at the head of the table.

    Viewers go insane for the relationship between Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) and Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), but season four is going to be explosive considering all of the children are in their “Reputation Era” of sorts.

    Quarterback – Netflix

    Netflix just announced they’re releasing
    Quarterback, which follows three QBs in the NFL during the 2022 season. Patrick Mahomes (Kansas City Chiefs), Marcus Mariota (Atlanta Falcons), and Kirk Cousins (Minnesota Vikings) were mic’d up each game and are now giving fans the most intimate look into the season.

    Since there are a little under 200 days until we see the next snap of a football,
    Quarterback will be a great placeholder. Fans of the game will have a chance to see some of the league’s most exciting quarterbacks in action like they’ve never seen before.

    You – Netflix, March 9

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvwvHrtL1xY

    It feels like Penn Badgley becomes the most viral person on the internet whenever a new season of You premieres. The newest installment of the Netflix series has been divided in two parts. The first is out now, and the next comes out March 9.

    We are finally seeing Joe get a taste of his own medicine. In a Knives Out-style who-dunnit, Joe is surrounded by a group of rich elite in England and someone is out to get him. With rising stars like Lukas Gage (Euphoria, White Lotus), I’m anticipating big things from part two.

    Outer Banks – Netflix, February 23 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0w8iL2vS04

    Brace yourselves. Soon everyone will be back trying to mold themselves into a John B derivative. Outer Banks is back for another season of rewriting The Goonies and us eating it up. Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Rudy Pankow, Drew Starkey, Madison Bailey, and Jonathon Daviss will take up our social media from here on out.

    Netflix knows they have a grip on the TikTok community with this show, so I can only imagine there will be lots of thirst-trap-worthy clips, a run-in with the police and the Kooks, and a plethora of bandanas tied around the neck. The Outer Banks, paradise on Earth.

    Daisy Jones & The Six – Amazon Prime Video, March 3

    If you know me, you know I’ve been anticipating this show for almost a year now. One of my favorite books of all time by Taylor Jenkins Reid has been turned into an Amazon Prime miniseries. If you’re a fan of Fleetwood Mac and 70’s rock and roll, this show will give you your fix.

    With a star-studded cast featuring Riley Keough (Elvis’ granddaughter), Suki Waterhouse, Sam Claflin, and Camila Morrone, I expect nothing less than excellence. Keough and Claflin play TJR’s version of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, as the show follows the tumultuously talented band looking back on their prime years.

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  • Riley Keough Skips ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Event Amid Trust Dispute With Grandmother Priscilla Presley

    Riley Keough Skips ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Event Amid Trust Dispute With Grandmother Priscilla Presley

    By Paige Gawley‍ , ETOnline.com.
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    Riley Keough sat out of a recent promotional event. Following Lisa Marie Presley‘s death, and amid a battle over her trust with Priscilla Presley, the 33-year-old actress opted not to attend an event for her upcoming show, “Daisy Jones & the Six”.

    Riley herself revealed that she wasn’t at the London gathering by sharing pics of her co-stars’ night out on her Instagram Story. One post was from Camila Morrone, and featured the model posing alongside Suki Waterhouse.

    “Karen & Camila take London,” Camila captioned the post, referencing her and Suki’s characters in the upcoming Prime Video series.

    Riley shared the post on her Instagram Story and referenced her own character, writing, “Meanwhile, Daisy has FOMO.”


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    Josh Whitehouse also documented the evening, sharing a shot of himself with Camila, Suki and Sam Claflin.

    “Great night celebrating the upcoming release of ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ in London last night with these absolute beauties — what wonderful company I keep,” he captioned the pic. “Thanks for such a great night and so much more to come!”

    Riley shared Josh’s post on her Story, and reacted to the photo with a heart emoji.

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    Photo: Instagram/ RileyKeough

    While Riley did not attend that particular event, she has been promoting “Daisy Jones & the Six” in the wake of her mom’s death. In fact, the actress joined TikTok and shared a giggle-filled post with Sam to do just that.

    Personally, though, Riley has been dealing with an ongoing battle over her late mom’s trust. Following Lisa Marie’s death on Jan. 12, her rep confirmed to ET that Graceland, the former home of her father, Elvis Presley, would go to her three daughters: 33-year-old Riley, and 14-year-old twins Harper and Finley.

    It later came to light that Riley and her brother, Benjamin (who died in 2020), were named co-trustees of Lisa Marie’s trust in 2016. However, Priscilla is contesting “the authenticity and validity” of Riley’s appointment, claiming that “there are many issues surrounding” it.

    Amid the legal challenge, Joel Weinshanker, a Managing Partner at Elvis Presley Enterprises, spoke out in favour of Riley maintaining her trustee role in the wake of Lisa Marie’s death. In a follow up statement to ET, Priscilla spoke out about the situation.


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    “There is an individual that bought their way into the family enterprise that is trying to speak on behalf of our family. This person is not a representative of Elvis or our family,” she said, without sharing whom she was referring to. “Please allow us the time we need to work together and sort this out. Please ignore ‘the noise.’ As I have always been there for Elvis’ legacy, our family and the fans, I will continue to forge a pathway forward with respect, honesty, dignity, integrity and love.”

    Later, a source told ET that Keough and her grandmother “aren’t communicating at this time.”

    “It has been a very tense and heartbreaking few weeks for both Riley and Priscilla,” the source said. “Riley has been mourning the loss of her mother and is heartbroken to have to deal with a trust dispute with a family member. Priscilla is adamant that she has a valid case and that she will prevail in court.”


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    The source added that while “they are both gearing up for court, Riley would prefer to settle this dispute privately.”

    “She is heartbroken that this has turned into a public matter and knows her mother would never want this. Riley is very stressed at the moment and has been trying to keep a positive attitude and outlook ahead of her new series coming out,” the source said. “Her daughter and husband have been keeping her in good spirits.”

    “Daisy Jones & the Six” will premiere March 3 on Prime Video.

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  • Riley Keough’s Husband Reveals Birth of Daughter at Lisa Marie Presley’s Memorial

    Riley Keough’s Husband Reveals Birth of Daughter at Lisa Marie Presley’s Memorial

    Sunday was a day of extreme emotions at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. Friends and family gathered to pay tribute to Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley who died suddenly earlier this month at the age of 54. But during the service, Ben Smith-Petersen revealed that he and his wife, Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough, had just given birth to a daughter.

    Smith-Peterson read a letter written by the 33-year-old Logan Lucky and The Terminal List star, which said in part, “Thank you for showing me love is the only thing that matters in this life. I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me, the way you loved my brother and my sisters.” Page Six confirmed with representatives that the couple has, indeed, welcomed a daughter.  

    Ben Smith-Petersen is an Australian stuntman, and he and Keough met on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road in 2012. (He played the “Doof Warrior,” the guy who belted out power chords on the electric guitar while shooting fire out of the neck as Immortan Joe’s War Boys raced into battle.) The two have been married since 2015, and this is their first child, and also Priscilla’s first great-grandchild. 

    Lisa Marie’s last public appearance was just two days before her demise, at the Golden Globe Awards. She appeared on the red carpet with Austin Butler, the star of Baz Luhrmann’s biopic, Elvis, which was nominated for Best Picture—Drama category. Butler, winning the Best Actor—Drama prize, thanked the entire Presley family in his acceptance speech for “opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me. Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I’ll love you forever.”

    In addition to the Keogh and Smith-Peterson news, Lisa Marie Presley’s memorial saw tributes from Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, who read a poem, and musical performances by Alanis Morrissette, Axl Rose, and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins. Lisa Marie’s body will rest at Graceland alongside that of her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020. 

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  • Daisy Jones & The Six Inspired Trends To Catch Early

    Daisy Jones & The Six Inspired Trends To Catch Early

    In all my time on BookTok, there have only been a few novels that actually earned the hype. The algorithm crams book after book down your throat but then, surprisingly, you find one that’s well worth the wait. In this instance, I’m talking about Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

    I read this a few years ago and forced everyone in my immediate circle to do the same the second I turned the last page. From start to finish, it’s flawless. It’s a fictionalized epic based on the notorious drama behind Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac. It’s as if you interviewed the tumultuous, mystical band and they left nothing on the table.

    The book follows Daisy Jones, a mesmerizing artiste who was clearly born to be a star. It leads us through the 60’s along her inevitable rise to fame. Daisy had the looks, the voice, and the attitude — sleeping with rockstars and dabbling with drugs. At the same time, the band The Six led by the angsty Billy Dunne are taking off. When an eagle-eyed producer matches Daisy with The Six, the world is forever changed.

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    Cue the drama. The merger of Daisy Jones + The Six goes on to impact the music industry as their internal drama becomes public. The tale twists and turns until one final concert at Chicago’s Soldier Field signals the end of their time together.

    Now, years later, a rising journalist gets the chance to hear their sides of the story. It’s equal parts sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

    The story is so addictive it can’t be missed. So if you’re not a reader, you’re in luck. The upcoming TV adaption debuts on March 3, 2023 on Amazon Prime. The 10 episode miniseries is already garnering buzz with a promising cast.

    Riley Keough, daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis, will play the lead Daisy and Sam Claflin (Me Before You) will play Billy. Other notable names are Suki Waterhouse and Camila Morrone, who you may also know as Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex-girlfriend.

    I can already feel a 70’s-style resurgence on the horizon. This is Gen-Z’s Almost Famous, without a doubt. The way the TikTok community will never be the same after this miniseries premiers. I don’t even know if SHEIN has enough bell bottoms in stock for the trend-hungry consumers.

    Sometimes, you can sniff a trend from a mile away. Call me crazy, but I just know we are all going to obsess over the It Girls from Daisy Jones — just like we did with Euphoria. Get your record players out, here are the top trends Daisy Jones & The Six will reignite:

    A Curtain Bang Resurgence

    No one did curtain bangs and blowouts quite like the women of the 70’s. Whip out those Revlon blow dry brushes (or Dyson Air Wraps for the blessed) and cut your front pieces. We are aiming for bombshell hair and wispy bangs.

    Remember, blow dry the top parts and front pieces of your hair away from your face to get the utmost volume.

    The Bell Bottom

    Honestly, I live for bell bottom jeans. While the baggy jean look has reigned for months, sometimes I like a little shape in my jeans. I’m not talking about anything crazy like skinny jeans, but a fitted thigh is all I need.

    I guarantee you that every cast member of this show will at one point rock a pair…and I equally promise that every store will be pushing the 70’s favorite jeans by April.

    Band Tees

    I can totally see a revival of retro band tees coming back into Urban Outfitters. The oversized vintage-style tee is all the rage, so slap on a picture of the Rolling Stones logo and you’re in business.

    Nothing says “I’m with the band” quite like a vintage-inspired tee. This one from Urban is exactly what I’m talking about.

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    Record Players

    Remember that era in 2014 when everyone went out and bought a Crosley record player with Tumblr-recommended aesthetic records like The Neighbourhood and The 1975? I just have the weirdest inkling that we are on the cusp of roaming around record stores yet again.

    There’s no shame, my dining room wall is covered in vintage records I bought on a discount at my local record store. Bring on all the vinyl for me.

    Fur Vests

    Anything fur-lined really. A fur vest is the ultimate accessory for your weekend outfit. Seriously, I act differently when I wear a fur vest. Add a pair of sunnies and you’re a rockstar with other places to be.

    My personal rec is this Free People fur vest that’s perfect for literally any occasion.

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  • Lisa Marie Presley will be buried at Graceland next to son

    Lisa Marie Presley will be buried at Graceland next to son

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley will be buried at Graceland, the famed home of Elvis Presley that on Friday became a gathering place for fans distraught over her death a day earlier.

    The singer-songwriter’s final resting place will be next to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, said a representative of her daughter and actor Riley Keough. Elvis and other members of the Presley family are also buried at Graceland.

    Fans paid their respects at Graceland’s gates on Friday, writing messages on the stone wall, leaving flowers and sharing memories of Elvis Presley’s only child, who was one of the last remaining touchstones to the icon whose influence and significance still resonates more than 45 years after his own sudden death.

    Lisa Marie Presley, 54, died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized for a medical emergency.

    A singer-songwriter herself, Lisa Marie did not live in Memphis, where she was born. But she made trips to the city for celebrations of her father’s birth anniversary and commemorations of his death, which stunned the world when he was found dead in his Graceland home at age 42 on Aug. 16, 1977. She was in Memphis just this past Sunday, on what would have been her father’s 88th birthday.

    Angela Ferraro was among those on Thursday night who stopped by Graceland, where the trees in the front lawn were adorned by green and red lights. Fans took photos and left flowers at the front gate on the chilly and windy evening.

    Ferraro and her fiance drove 25 minutes from Olive Branch, Mississippi, to pay their respects. Ferraro said she was a fan of Elvis’ music and of Lisa Marie’s — the couple listened to Lisa Marie’s song “Lights Out” on the drive north to Graceland.

    “Elvis died young, and so did she. And her son, his passing was very tragic as well,” said Ferraro, 32. “It’s hard and it’s devastating.”

    Lisa Marie became the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Trust, which — along with Elvis Presley Enterprises — managed Graceland and other assets until she sold her majority interest in 2005. She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home.

    A representative from Elvis Presley Enterprises told The Associated Press that the mansion is in a trust that will go to the benefit of her children — she’s survived by three daughters. The representative did not have details on the timing of a funeral or burial.

    Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died. She was staying at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours before he died. When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.

    “I just had a feeling,” she told Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn’t doing well. All I know is I had it (a feeling), and it happened. I was obsessed with death at a very early age.”

    Lisa Marie visited Graceland in 2012 to attend the opening of a new exhibit, “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes,” a personal look that included her baby shoes — her birth, nine months exactly after Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s wedding, was international news — as well as her first record player and a small white fur coat.

    During an interview with the AP during that stop, she smiled when recalling the time spent with her dad. She said one of her favorite items was the key used to operate a golf cart because it helped her recall when she was alone with her father, riding around the neighborhood.

    “That was my life,” she said. “I carried it everywhere. It was never far from me or not on my person when I was a child. I hadn’t seen it in 35 years.”

    On Thursday, Sancelle Vance, 50, had taken the Graceland tour, which included a stop by Lisa Marie’s old swing set and the grave of her son.

    About an hour and a half later, Vance heard about Lisa Marie’s death; the mood at The Guest House at Graceland, the hotel where she is staying, became somber. Vance, who decided to stop in Memphis while moving from Mississippi to California, said it was “surreal” that she was at Graceland on the day Lisa Marie died.

    Kristen Sainato and her husband were visiting Memphis from Cleveland when she heard the news of Lisa Marie’s death on Thursday. She wore a black jacket with the well-known TCB lightning bolt (shorthand for taking care of business in a flash, a motto Elvis lived by) on the back as she described meeting Lisa Marie at a celebration of her father’s birthday. Sainato set down a bouquet of flowers at the front gate of Graceland, where one of two planes is named for Lisa Marie.

    “Those are for Lisa,” she said.

    She said Lisa Marie Presley was one of the last connections to her famous father.

    “Everyone is shocked over this. Why? Why did this have to happen?” Sainato said, wiping tears from her eyes as she stood in front of the stone wall that borders the home-turned museum. “She deserved a long, happy life.”

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  • Lisa Marie Presley – Daughter of Elvis – Dies At 54

    Lisa Marie Presley – Daughter of Elvis – Dies At 54

    Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, passed away Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest. This news comes only days after Lisa Marie and Priscilla – looking quite regal in black – attended the Golden Globes alongside Austin Butler and Baz Luhrmann for their roles in Elvis.

    Born February 1, 1968 at the height of Elvis’ popularity, Lisa Marie spent most of her life actively in the spotlight, even releasing three studio albums of her own. Her first album – To Whom It May Concern – proved her inherited musical prowess as she wrote the lyrics and co-composed all the melodies.

    Presley was married four times, including notable Hollywood stars like Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. She had two children in her first marriage to Danny Keough – Riley and Benjamin Storm. And twins from her marriage to Michael Lockwood – Finley and Harper.

    Steve Binder, Finley Lockwood, Baz Luhrmann, Austin Butler, Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, Riley Keough and Harper Lockwood

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    In 2020, Lisa Marie lost her son, Benjamin, to suicide. She then became a passionate advocate for mental health…even penning an essay for National Grief Awareness to raise awareness about the agony of losing a child. Her essay became a touchstone of comfort for the many parents who’ve lost a child to this insidious disease.

    As Elvis’ only child, Lisa Marie was the sole heir to Elvis Enterprises and Graceland – the Rock-n-roll mecca for Elvis’ many-many fans. When she finally was eligible to receive the inheritance, she turned it into the Elvis Presley Trust that funds Graceland as a tourist attraction.

    A complete philanthropist, she oversaw the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation (EPCF). Formed in 1984 by Graceland/Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc, the EPCF continues Elvis’ own tradition of generosity and community service by helping homeless families and providing rent-free housing, day-care, and other services for those in need.

    Lisa Marie also worked closely with the Oprah Winfrey Angel Network during Hurricane Katrina as well as the Dream Factory that helps children with life-threatening illness.

    Lisa Marie will be remembered for her talent, resilience, generosity, and love – another gem in the Presley name.

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  • ‘Under The Bridge’ Recruits Archie Panjabi, Along With Vritika Gupta, Javon Walton & Aiyana Goodfellow

    ‘Under The Bridge’ Recruits Archie Panjabi, Along With Vritika Gupta, Javon Walton & Aiyana Goodfellow

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    Hulu is adding four more to “Under The Bridge”.

    Deadline reports Emmy winner Archie Panjabi (“The Good Wife”) is being cast as a lead, along with Vritika Gupta (“American Halloween”), Javon “Wanna” Walton (“Euphoria”) and Aiyana Goodfellow (“Small Axe”) in “Under The Bridge”.


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    They join previously announced cast members star Riley Keough as well as fellow series regulars Izzy G, Chloe Guidry and Ezra Faroque Khan in the ABC Signature series.

    The limited series is based on Rebecca Godfrey’s 1997 novel of the same name which tells the true story of the disappearance of 14-year-old Reena Virk after she never returned home from a party. Seven teenage girls and a boy are accused of murdering the teen as unsettling truths are revealed about the true killer.

    Panjabi will play Reena’s mother, Suman Virk, a devoted Jehovah’s Witness who is trying to rein in her rebellious teenage daughter. Gupta plays teenage outcast Reena who is looking for a group of friends where she can fit in. Walton is cast in the role of Warren who is considered a role model at his school, but is secretly involved with the “Crips”.


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    Goodfellow is set to play a member of the CMC (Crip Mafia Cartel), Dusty, who is one of Reena’s only friends before her death.

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