In addition to hiding his British accent to star in Prime Video’s “Daisy Jones and the Six,” Sam Claflin got to perfectly embody rocker Billy Dunn in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s adaptation of the best-selling book Singing “On Broadway” was to overcome. ,
The show simultaneously follows Daisy Jones’ pursuit of music while Billy Dunn takes over the band that his brother Graham (Will Harrison) started with childhood friends Eddie Roundtree (Josh Whitehouse), later joined by keyboardist Karen Sirco (Joseph Whitehouse). Sookie Waterhouse) and creatively supported by Billy’s girlfriend Camilla (Camilla Morrone). Daisy begins to notice the growing L.A. rock scene on the Sunset Strip, and The Six (formerly the Dunn Brothers) move from Pittsburgh to California when they decide to get serious.
Claflin told TheWrap, “I read the book when I read the first couple of episodes and that was my introduction, not only to this story,” but to 1970s Los Angeles. “I knew very little about the world we were portraying honestly.”
Dunn gets a run for his money as lead singer of The Six when their music producer, Teddy Price (Tom Wright), invites Keough Daisy, inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, to perform one of his songs, “Look”. To feature on “At Us Now” (Honeycomb).” Their clashing egos make for great creative chemistry.
Claflin had to actively work on tweaking his vocals to sound more like frontman the Dunn brothers and less like a Broadway star.
“We had a long way to come. Before that none of us really had any musical experience. I’ve done a little bit of musical theatre, but that was really a hindrance, because when I started singing on this record, started, they were like, can you stop sounding like you’re on Broadway?’ Claflin continued.
“I had great vibrato for everything and they’re like ‘no, no, no, you’re a rockstar in the 70s. We had vocal coaches and the most incredible support network of musically gifted and talented people around us. Was. Yeah, so I don’t think I could have done without them, basically.”
As the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, Keough shared that she still faced challenges finding and maintaining her singing voice.
“It’s getting hard to learn the songs anywhere, my fingers are hurting from playing all day [there were] These little things I hadn’t experienced before,” Keough told TheWrap. “Sometimes you get behind because you didn’t work on a song and then you have to start over and that’s it, it’s constantly something wrong. But it was also a great challenge, and I feel proud of the entire band. Everyone really started somewhere and ended up in a much more impressive place than they really are.
The first three episodes of Daisy Jones and the Six are streaming now on Prime Video.