Riley Keough reveals how Lisa Marie Presley influenced Daisy Jones and the character Six

Riley Keough revealed how her mother, singer and actress Lisa Marie Presley, inspired her performance in the hit miniseries Daisy Jones and the Six.

Keough starred in the musical drama as the title character Daisy Jones, an aspiring musician who joins a rock band in Los Angeles during the Seventies.

Appearing at a literary event in London to promote Lisa Marie’s posthumous memoir From here to the Great Unknown — which recounts her upbringing as the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley — Keough shared that her mother was unable to attend the show before her death.

“Daisy Jones actually reminded me a lot of my mom – when I first read (the script), there were so many things (they) had in common,” Keough said.

“Her personality was similar to my mother’s, her life, her writing, not being taken seriously as a writer… So I really think she was a (huge) inspiration for that character, and unfortunately she never got to see her .”

Keough, 35, said she told her mother she would enjoy the show while filming it, but sadly died shortly before its release: “I told her it would remind her of herself. But she passed away two months before it was released.”

She said it was “really difficult” dealing with the aftermath of Lisa Marie’s death while also needing to promote the show, but found comfort in being around her friends and castmates: “Doing press with the band and Daisy Jones It was actually really fun and uplifting.

Released on Amazon Prime Video, the series received positive reviews from critics, who highlighted Keough along with his co-star, Sam Claflin, who played the band’s lead singer Billy Dunne.

It was also a hit with viewers and topped Amazon Prime Video’s most-watched list in the US within hours of its release. Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks, whose tumultuous relationship with bandmate Lindsey Buckingham is said to have inspired the original novel, also praised the series.

“At first it wasn’t really my story, but Riley soon became my story,” she wrote in a social media post. “It brought back memories that made me feel like a ghost watching my own story… It was very emotional.”

Keough eventually completed his mother’s memoir after her death, listening to recorded interviews and adding his own recollections of their family life.

In one chapter, she recalled her mother’s last conversation with her second husband, pop star Michael Jackson.

She said Lisa Marie realized she needed to end her relationship with the King of Pop after a near-disaster where the family’s private plane nearly crashed “in the middle of nowhere” while they were traveling to visit Jackson, who was on tour in South Africa. .

“(It) seemed like a bad omen for my mother,” Keough wrote.

Years later, Jackson called Lisa Marie: “He didn’t sound sober.”

“You were right,” Jackson told Keough’s mother. “Everyone around me wants to kill me.”

That was their last conversation, Keough wrote. “My mother was in London, writing a record, when Michael died. Later, my mother told Oprah that Michael always said he was afraid he would end up like her father.

“He was always asking my mother when Elvis died, how it happened, where, why. Michael said, ‘I feel like I’m going to end up the same way.'”

Meanwhile, Lisa Marie claimed that Jackson, whom she married in 1994 and divorced just over a year later, could be “very controlling and calculating.”

“He wanted me to have his children so badly and I didn’t,” she wrote. “I knew he wanted to be the sole caretaker of the children. Michael wanted to control things. He didn’t want maternal influence, or any other influence, really.

“I thought Michael would want me to have the kids and then dump me, take me out of the picture. I could read it like clockwork. I understood everything about him because all we did was open our souls to each other. I knew its nature.”

From here to the Great Unknown It’s out now.