Riley Keough for Harper's Bazaar Australia
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Riley Keough speaks to Harper's Bazaar Australia to promote her mom Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown (we're doing ONTD book club right now on it!).
On her mother's book becoming a miniseries or movie: “I don’t have any plans [to produce it], but if someone came along and had a great idea for one, I wouldn’t say no. Right now, I’m just sort of letting it be what it is.”
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• Her husband, stuntman Ben Smith-Peterson, is Australian and they fell for each other while doing reshoots on Mad Max: Fury Road. While going on an impulsive road trip to meet his family (they had only been hanging out for a week), she saw him exit a gas station and thought "I think I’m going to have kids with this person." The couple would marry a year later in 2015 and now have a two year old daughter.
• On being asked by her mother to help with her memoir a month before her death, and finishing the book for her: "She, I think, ultimately got to this point where she was like, Why am I writing a book? Who cares? She was pretty insecure and didn’t particularly like talking about herself … I said, ‘I’ll help you finish it’. And then she passed away. So, it felt like this duty that I kind of needed to do for her. When someone passes away there’s all these sort of unfinished things, and the book happened to be one of them."
• She hopes the book helps people, like Lisa Marie wanted: "The reason she wanted to write a book was so that someone could read it and relate, or feel less alone in the world, and experience what they’ve gone through. I hope that people can relate to the humanity within the story. It’s a story about family and addiction and love and loss and all of these things that are very normal human experiences - set in a world that is, you know, unique."
• On taking up singing after doing Daisy Jones & the Six: "If opportunities arise where someone wants me to sing, I’ll sing, but I don’t think I could write music. I’m not a songwriter. Maybe had I started singing when I was young, maybe I would feel differently. But at this stage, it’s just sort of like a hobby."
• Riley's production company Felix Culpa has around 20 projects currently in development, including a biopic about Australian conservationist and filmmaker Valerie Taylor.
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