How ‘Daisy Jones’ Stars Riley Keough, Camila Morrone and Suki Waterhouse Are Changing the Narrative for Women in Hollywood
variety.comDaisy Jones and the Six” does the opposite — the women are a unit. “From Disney movies that came out when we were tiny, that’s what we were seeing,” says Riley Keough, who portrays rockstar Daisy Jones in the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book, which flipped that trope on its head.
It was that reason why I chose the women of “Daisy Jones and the Six” for our Women of Awards Season issue. Keough, Suki Waterhouse and Camila Morrone aren’t in competition.
Even their characters, three independent women fighting for success and love, weren’t in competition — and two were in love with the same man. “Even though they both wanted the same thing, it never made either character put the other one down.
There was just kind of this love and admiration,” says Morrone, who portrayed the Camila Dunne, the wife of Billy, the lead guitarist and singer of the fictional band in the series, the Six. “I think Daisy had all the qualities that Camila could never have and can never compete with.
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