Riley Keough is following in her famous grandfather, Elvis Presley’s, footsteps -- but on her own terms. The 33-year-old actress and her Daisy Jones & The Six co-star, Sam Claflin, sat down with ET’s Nischelle Turner to discuss their highly-anticipated Prime Video series.The series is an adaptation of the bestselling book by Taylor Jenkins Reid and stars Riley and Claflin as Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne, the talented, charismatic, and volatile lead singers of a rock band in 1970s California who rocket to fame and then suddenly, and inexplicably, call it quits.Although Riley is the granddaughter of rock legends, Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and the daughter of musicians Lisa Marie PresleyandDanny Keough, she told ET that she had to work hard on tapping into her own musical ability.«It's pretty amazing.

I think we really came from not being able to play anything on a guitar or sing really, to having a full record going out which is like it's crazy to us I think,» she said. «We had months of jam sessions, so we had months of rehearsals, so we were basically in band practice for, I don't know, a year.»Sam, who graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, also found challenges while filming for the series. «It was not only playing the guitar but singing whilst I'm playing the guitar, while also trying to move like I know what I'm doing and I've been doing this my entire life whilst also singing in an American accent, whilst also running on no food because I was trying to lose weight for the part,» he confessed.

The duo shared that they were both nervous when they first met with their singing coach together. «Up until then, it'd just been like me auditioning alone and him auditioning alone, and it was.

Riley Keough Talks Grandfather Elvis Presley's Legacy and Her Own Musical Journey in 'Daisy Jones' (Exclusive)

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