'Daisy Jones & The Six': The Biggest Changes Between the Book and TV Show
etonline.comis now the TV show sweeping the world off of its feet. Though many may have just met Daisy, Billy, and the rest of the fictional band when Prime Video released the show's first three episodes last weekend, the beloved characters have long anchored the fan base for Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2019 book.The novel -- and now the show — chronicles the rise and fall of the titular rock band in a Fleetwood Mac-esque story starring Riley Keough as Daisy Jones, with Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne, Suki Waterhouse as Karen Sirko, Will Harrison as Graham Dunne, Josh Whitehouse as Eddie Roundtree and Sebastian Chacon as Warren Rojas.
Camila Morrone features as Billy's wife, Camila, Tom Wright plays record producer Teddy Price and Nabiyah Be stars and Daisy's friend, Simone Jackson.
As with any adaptation, the creative team made adjustments from page and screen, but none that Reid was mad about. «Things have to change,» Reid told ET at the premiere event in February. «You have to change stuff, it's about making the absolute best TV show that you can make and they did that.» Here's ET's guide on the biggest book-to-television differences for In the show, Camila works as the band's photographer, recording the group's rehearsals and offering a plot device to explain the «found footage» scenes of the show's documentary format.
In the novel, she is not involved with the band beyond being the inspiration for much of Billy's songwriting. She instead takes care of her and Billy's children (in the book they have three) but still lives with the band in the early years of their development.
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