Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough for the New York Times; Under the Bridge Premiere Photos
📸 Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough photographed by Amy Harrity for The New York Times pic.twitter.com/IFH7XfCcvo
- Lily Gladstone Updates (@LilyGUpdates) April 20, 2024
Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough were interviewed by the NY Times for their new Hulu miniseries Under the Bridge, about the real life Reena Virk murder.
• Neither Lily or Riley are surprised by teen girls being capable of extreme violence.
• On female violence, Lily is more blunt, Riley is more forgiving:
GLADSTONE: I remember having an awareness of how girls will fight to the death, and boys just fight until they feel better. Girls scratch. They pull hair. They kick. They bite. They go at it until there’s intervention.
KEOUGH: But again, it’s case by case. It could be to impress the cool girl in school, or it could be that something’s going on at home
📸 Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough photographed by Amy Harrity for The New York Times pic.twitter.com/tbVdIyJu1y
- Lily Gladstone Updates (@LilyGUpdates) April 20, 2024
• Both were asked what they were like as teenagers:
LILY GLADSTONE: Whenever I meet anybody from high school, “Oh my God, you’re the same person” is pretty much what I hear. That version of Lily really built the foundation for who I am now. She had this sense of where she wanted to go. She cracks me up a little bit. Riley, I get the sense that you had a lot of energy, though I don’t want to say you were ever too much to handle because you don’t really have that vibe.
RILEY KEOUGH: Well, my parents would have said differently.
GLADSTONE: Mine, too. They say there’s a reason I’m an only child. But I feel like if I was your teacher, I would have been like, ‘She’s going to do some pretty awesome things.’
KEOUGH: I needed that teacher. I would say that I was always very sensitive and kind. The kids that maybe didn’t have friends, I always wanted to sit with. I had that instinct. But I had a wildness in me, too. I’m an adventurous spirit. I wasn’t a teenager who was a very big problem or anything. I just loved life and I wanted to experience it all.
• Lily was drawn to Under the Bridge because Riley was involved. [Book author Rebecca Godfrey handpicked both Keough and Gladstone for their roles, she would pass away from cancer in 2022, weeks before filming began]
• They discuss Columbine and listening to music like Marilyn Manson during that period and the judgement of that during the panic in the 90s, when the Virk murder took place.
• Lily was drawn to the fictional Cam because she was a First Nations character, and the murder occurred by tribal land.
• Producer Quinn Shepherd previously told Indiewire Rebecca's characterization came from Rebecca's own journals/investigation notes during the period of the crime, and Rebecca working with the producers for three years before her death.
• Riley gets affected by the locations she shoots at, and Lily notes Riley was cold all the time. Riley agrees it affected her performance.
• Both Riley and Lily believe in rehabilitation and reconciliation for crime.
GLADSTONE: Even if a person’s worst action doesn’t necessarily define them, worst actions do define the world for everyone else.
• Do you think that the girls you were would be proud of the women that you are now?
KEOUGH: I’m proud of Lily!
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