Riley Keough, ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Creators React To 9 Emmy Nominations, Ongoing Writers Strike & Appetite For A Sequel

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Moments after Daisy Jones & The Six received nine Emmy nominations on Wednesday morning, executive producers Scott and Lauren Neustadter fielded a congratulatory phone call from Reese Witherspoon. “She was so thrilled for everybody,” Lauren Neustadter told Deadline of Witherspoon, who produced the series through her Hello Sunshine banner. “She’s been such a part of all of this and blazes the trail that makes all of this possible.

We’re very grateful for her.” Daisy Jones & The Six is competing in the Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series Or Movie category, and it also earned first-time nominations for stars Riley Keough and Camila Morrone.

Keough told Deadline she had her phone on Do Not Disturb when nominations were announced, but once she received enough phone calls to override the feature, she told Deadline she “had a feeling that something happened.” The actress, who plays the titular character Daisy Jones, added that she was particularly happy to be nominated alongside Morrone. “She’s such a wonderful, wonderful person, and I’m so happy for her and she really deserves it,” she said.

Additionally, Prime Video series was also recognized in production design, hair and makeup, and costume design, as well as music supervision and sound mixing. “It’s been six years in the making for the two of us and we’re just really, really gratified that all of these people who work so hard for so long are being acknowledged,” Scott Neustadter, who also created the series, said, adding: “It was so taxing and crazy, and people were were going above and beyond, I think, anything they’d ever done before.