Riley Keough for Elle UK; More Harper's Bazaar
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Riley Keough covers Elle UK to promote mom Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown (ONTD book club covered the book! Hit the Presley family tag!).
• Riley is a nepo baby: "I’m sure being Elvis’s grand- daughter has made it easier for me to get an agent, to have meetings and all this stuff, when I started out. I know there’s so much nepo-baby stuff at the moment [and] I certainly acknowledge that aspect of the privilege of coming where I come from. I’m not an idiot! I’m aware of privilege in an acute way."
• Mom Lisa Marie Presley’s life was a lonely struggle: "The most heartbreaking thing for me, growing up, was to watch this woman who I could tell so deeply wanted love and friendship, really struggle to find it. I think that’s really common at that level of fame. Being Elvis’s daughter is different to being other people’s daughters, I think. Not to say she didn’t have a few great friendships and relationships in her life - it just was always a struggle.’"
More excerpts and photos behind the cut.
• She felt she had a duty to finish her mom's book: "[I went] into this mode of needing to handle everything that’s not completed, and the book was part of that. There are all these things that are left undone when a person leaves, when they pass away. How could I not finish it for her? It felt more like a duty, I suppose. I just felt like something drove me to complete it for her."
• Mom Lisa Marie and dad Danny Keough were not thrilled she went into show business: "I felt like I was getting into something that could go terribly wrong. [My mum] would say to me: “If you’re going to do this, you have to be so good at what you do, or else nobody’s going to take you seriously, you’re not going to get any jobs and it’s going to be embarrassing,” You don’t want to be an embarrassing celebrity kid! She ingrained that into me and my brother so deeply."
• Keough became a certified death doula after brother Benjamin's suicide and wants conversations around death and grief to change: "I wish we could reframe it. Because I think the fear of death dictates people’s lives in a way that maybe they aren’t even aware of [...] I try to just stay open to whatever [grief] is. I’ve had that experience in grief where I’m like, “OK, now I’m feeling this way” - and then it changes. I don’t have anything figured out. I’m just going about my life as best I can, and trying to be humble and fluid within that. Things just change so much that I try to just ride the waves and surrender and find joy. Something I’ve experienced with discomfort is [that] the joy I feel about little things is really beautiful."
• Riley was a non-addict in a family full of addicts and says of trying to get people sober: "You can’t do anything. You can’t. And I think I spent so much of my life going, “OK, now I’m going to try this, now I’m going to try this”, and nothing worked."
• She hopes her mother's book connects with people: "I want what my mom wanted with this book: human connection, empathy. I think storytelling and sharing your story is incredibly powerful. In times where I’ve had hard moments, what helped me most is understanding that it’s a shared experience on this planet. And that most people are experiencing much more than you realise, every day. I think that brings strength to the self."
• Despite the tragedies in her life, she remains hopeful: "I think for me hope is a choice. And I am much more inspired by the idea of being hopeful, and I would rather live in that headspace. There’s so much evidence of beauty and magic in this world, too; it’s certainly hard, there’s a lot of suffering in this world - you turn on the television and you can watch it, or you can be living it. But I think that life is about both things. Hope is part of it and surrender is part of it and suffering is part of it. I think it’s accepting the complexity of life and why we’re here. We’re here to experience something complicated, not just one thing."
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Harper's Bazaar outtakes:
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• She's down for a Daisy Jones spin off.
• She doesn't see herself having a music career but she'll sing if an acting role requires it.
• She loves suburbia because she didn't have it growing up.
• She watches the fashion trends because her sixteen year old sisters are into that now.
• She shares what jobs nepo baby friends Dakota Johnson, Kristen Stewart and Zoe Kravitz would do at a dinner party.
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Riley Keough covers Elle UK to promote mom Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown (ONTD book club covered the book! Hit the Presley family tag!).
• Riley is a nepo baby: "I’m sure being Elvis’s grand- daughter has made it easier for me to get an agent, to have meetings and all this stuff, when I started out. I know there’s so much nepo-baby stuff at the moment [and] I certainly acknowledge that aspect of the privilege of coming where I come from. I’m not an idiot! I’m aware of privilege in an acute way."
• Mom Lisa Marie Presley’s life was a lonely struggle: "The most heartbreaking thing for me, growing up, was to watch this woman who I could tell so deeply wanted love and friendship, really struggle to find it. I think that’s really common at that level of fame. Being Elvis’s daughter is different to being other people’s daughters, I think. Not to say she didn’t have a few great friendships and relationships in her life - it just was always a struggle.’"
More excerpts and photos behind the cut.
• She felt she had a duty to finish her mom's book: "[I went] into this mode of needing to handle everything that’s not completed, and the book was part of that. There are all these things that are left undone when a person leaves, when they pass away. How could I not finish it for her? It felt more like a duty, I suppose. I just felt like something drove me to complete it for her."
• Mom Lisa Marie and dad Danny Keough were not thrilled she went into show business: "I felt like I was getting into something that could go terribly wrong. [My mum] would say to me: “If you’re going to do this, you have to be so good at what you do, or else nobody’s going to take you seriously, you’re not going to get any jobs and it’s going to be embarrassing,” You don’t want to be an embarrassing celebrity kid! She ingrained that into me and my brother so deeply."
• Keough became a certified death doula after brother Benjamin's suicide and wants conversations around death and grief to change: "I wish we could reframe it. Because I think the fear of death dictates people’s lives in a way that maybe they aren’t even aware of [...] I try to just stay open to whatever [grief] is. I’ve had that experience in grief where I’m like, “OK, now I’m feeling this way” - and then it changes. I don’t have anything figured out. I’m just going about my life as best I can, and trying to be humble and fluid within that. Things just change so much that I try to just ride the waves and surrender and find joy. Something I’ve experienced with discomfort is [that] the joy I feel about little things is really beautiful."
• Riley was a non-addict in a family full of addicts and says of trying to get people sober: "You can’t do anything. You can’t. And I think I spent so much of my life going, “OK, now I’m going to try this, now I’m going to try this”, and nothing worked."
• She hopes her mother's book connects with people: "I want what my mom wanted with this book: human connection, empathy. I think storytelling and sharing your story is incredibly powerful. In times where I’ve had hard moments, what helped me most is understanding that it’s a shared experience on this planet. And that most people are experiencing much more than you realise, every day. I think that brings strength to the self."
• Despite the tragedies in her life, she remains hopeful: "I think for me hope is a choice. And I am much more inspired by the idea of being hopeful, and I would rather live in that headspace. There’s so much evidence of beauty and magic in this world, too; it’s certainly hard, there’s a lot of suffering in this world - you turn on the television and you can watch it, or you can be living it. But I think that life is about both things. Hope is part of it and surrender is part of it and suffering is part of it. I think it’s accepting the complexity of life and why we’re here. We’re here to experience something complicated, not just one thing."
https://instagram.com/p/DBq05GbI-u-
https://instagram.com/p/DBq_4ZhxXa2
Harper's Bazaar outtakes:
https://instagram.com/p/DBkeWhHx_ES
Click to view• She's down for a Daisy Jones spin off.
• She doesn't see herself having a music career but she'll sing if an acting role requires it.
• She loves suburbia because she didn't have it growing up.
• She watches the fashion trends because her sixteen year old sisters are into that now.
• She shares what jobs nepo baby friends Dakota Johnson, Kristen Stewart and Zoe Kravitz would do at a dinner party.
https://instagram.com/p/DBua75tuDSH
Source, pics: one, two, three, four; Video: one, two