Emotionally charged musical performances are at the heart of Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins' 2019 novel from Reed. This fictional 1970s oral history of a Fleetwood Mac-esque band was acquired by Reese Witherspoon's production company Hello Sunshine before it ever hit shelves, so it was only natural that its musical appeal would be transferred from the page to the screen. is always crucial. But are the cast of Daisy Jones actually singing in the TV adaptation, released March 3?
Lily Keough and Sam Claflin play lead singers Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne. However, both actors have openly admitted that they are not exactly musicians.
According to People magazine, Keough said during a panel discussion that she "lied" during her audition "and told them (she) could sing." Even though she is Elvis Presley's granddaughter, she was hesitant about continuing his legacy in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
"I listen to music, my whole family is musicians, I've been to a lot of places in the world, been on tours and stuff like that," she explained. "But I've never really done that myself. So for me, it's more about my personal relationship with playing music, which is fun."
Claflin also told Variety that he wasn't comfortable in the music field. “For the first time in my life I walked into a studio and was in front of a microphone and people were looking at me in a fish tank,” he said. “I sang ‘Your Song’ by Elton John.” Horrible. "
Despite their misgivings, Keough and Claflin were cast and received immediate professional support. "[Clavlin] would get on Zoom, pick up his guitar, and work with a vocal coach," executive producer Lauren Levy Neustadter told Vanity Fair. "It was non-stop. He literally turned into Billy and Riley did the same thing."
Her husband, Daisy Jones showrunner Scott Neustadter, told Entertainment Weekly that without the extended pre-production practice period, a byproduct of lockdown, the show "looks like It will be very different.” "We would have involved a little more movie magic ... but in this particular case, they were really doing all of those things," she said.
Even the on-screen band members with more musical experience - like Suki Waterhouse, who plays Karen - described the challenges of landing the role. "I was in my apartment wearing a wig and got a really wonky keyboard or something from the local Target," Waterhouse told Us Weekly in 2021. "I was there all Christmas. Study, study, study... This is the hardest I've ever tried to get something in my life. "
Clearly, their efforts paid off. Entertainment Weekly reported that before filming, the Neustadters had the fictional band perform a very real live concert for Prime Video employees and their families. "We got to a point where we were like, 'Wow, I can't believe we can do this whole scene without screwing anything up,'" Keough said. "There was a time in the beginning where we thought we were going to have to fake a lot of this stuff. The fact that we were able to actually do that — we impressed ourselves."
In addition to watching the band's work on the show, you can now listen to the entire Aurora album on Spotify.
