‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Cast & EPs On How A Stalled Production Turned The Fictional Rock Band Into A Reality
deadline.comDaisy Jones & The Six may not have existed in the 1970s, but they do now. Sam Claflin, Riley Keough, Suki Waterhouse, Sebastian Chacon, Josh Whitehouse, and Will Harrison bring the once-fictional rock band to life in Prime Video’s adaptation of the best-selling novel, which debuts on Friday. “I think the band really does exist, and it’s us,” Chacon, who plays drummer Warren Rojas, told Deadline. “We played a considerable amount of time together.
We really got to the point where we’re not only proficient and capable, but also very comfortable and we look like we’ve been playing together for a long time — because we have.” If all had gone according to plan, Daisy Jones & The Six would have begun production in April of 2020.
Prior to the series, the cast were novice musicians. They were expected to undergo a few months of individual music lessons and about a month of band camp to prepare for their roles as a part of a fictional Fleetwood Mac-esque band from the 1970s.
Instead, the world shut down. Like many who had projects squashed by the lockdown that came with the COVID pandemic, the cast and crew at first felt like something incredible was being taken from them.
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