Look at them now! Following the important acclaim of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six, Prime Video introduced the compelling characters to the small display screen in a restricted collection starring Riley Keough, Sam Claflin and extra.
“It read like a movie or television show with back in time, but also had this great documentary footage angle too,” government producer Reese Witherspoon advised Today in February 2023 about why she was immediately impressed by the variation. “You got to see people talking about their life in a way that built this mystery.”
The novel, which hit bookshelves in 2019, adopted the whirlwind rise of a fictional Seventies rock group and their lead singer, Daisy Jones (Keough. The puzzle items advised all through the story reveal the thriller behind their eventual breakup.
For the Sweet Home Alabama star — and Reid, who can also be a author and producer on the collection — discovering the proper forged for the collection was crucial in bringing every part to life, beginning with titular character Daisy Jones herself.
“Riley came on really early. I think we all thought it was going to be really hard to find Daisy Jones because she’s this really larger-than-life character,” the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo creator defined to the outlet. “And then Riley showed up and immediately (we were) like, ‘Oh, there she is. She is Daisy Jones.’ I might have written the book for her and not have known it.”
When it got here to romantic lead Billy Dunne, nevertheless, Reid advised Today that discovering an actor who may match up with Keough’s depth was a problem.
“It took a little while to find that person. And I firmly believe that the reason for that was that we were just waiting for Sam Claflin,” Reid shared, including that she was shocked at how effectively the chemistry labored between the complete forged.
“I didn’t see that coming. Not because I didn’t think that it was possible, but because I don’t think I’ve seen chemistry quite like this before,” she stated. “It’s really beyond what I could have imagined.”
When it got here to taking the story from paper to the display screen, showrunner Scott Neustadter knew the transition can be seamless because of the approach Reid had crafted the narrative.
“I always knew that an oral history would lend itself well to a mockumentary or documentary sort of situation,” he advised Time in March 2023. “Early on, that helped make it a fairly seamless translation; later, we realized that a lot [of the book] is allusions to moments, things that she said or he said, but you might be missing the actual scene of what happened. So we got to invent those scenes from scratch —entire moments that we got to write from beginning to end, which isn’t always the case with an adaptation. It afforded us so much fun and so many kinds of opportunities for drama will hopefully deepen the story.”
Neustadter nonetheless had the problem, nevertheless, of determining what labored finest for TV —and that meant increasing sure characters’ tales whereas chopping others out utterly. In one of many greatest modifications from the novel, The Six’s bassist, Pete, is erased completely, with the band at all times having 5 members (plus Camila, portrayed by Camila Morrone, Billy’s girlfriend and eventual spouse).
“When you adapt things for television, changes inevitably happen,” he shared. “The Pete character serves a function in the novel, but he doesn’t have much to say, he’s not the most dramatic. We knew if we were going to cast Pete, the actor might want more to do. It felt like eliminating Pete enabled us to do more with the characters that we had in the ensemble, which was already a pretty big group of people.”
In lieu of Pete, viewers are given a much bigger look into the lives of extra minor ebook characters like Teddy Price (Tom Wright) and Simone Jackson (Nabiyah Be), Daisy’s finest good friend.
“We wanted to explore what it meant to be a queer Black woman in the world in that moment in time,” he defined to Time. “What would have to be compromised, what would have to be hidden? And especially in the world of disco, which is so much about freedom and expression, that dichotomy was very interesting to us. We also really wanted to make sure that she was her own character, not someone whose only function was guiding Daisy’s story. That was really important to everybody.”
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