Riley Keough Opens Up About Receiving the Best Directorial Debut Award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
justjared.comRiley Keough shared what it was like for her to receive the Caméra d’or prize for her directorial debut in War Pony at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. “I just couldn’t believe it…It’s so crazy to have your first film get into Cannes.
And to have [Elvis] there the same year was so meaningful,” the 33-year-old actress told Porter. Keep reading to find out more…Her recognition at Cannes was extremely validating after putting in so much time and energy. “…It was a moment, as a woman, where you go, ‘F— you’.
I am not here by accident. I put a lot of work in to be here,” Riley said. In the new Prime Video series Daisy Jones & The Six, Riley had to depict her character’s substance abuse which had personal meaning for her. “Because this is something I’ve experienced in my family… I wanted the moments in which you see Daisy’s addiction to not feel glamorous,” Riley said. “To make sure that those moments had weight to them; that we’re seeing the humanity behind the closed doors of what people are perceiving to be glamour.” Riley had to do a lot of research in order to prepare for her role in Daisy Jones & The Six. “I watched so many videos of [singers] in that era to get a sense of their movements,” she said. “There wasn’t the freedom there is now for women, and that is evident in how they behaved on stage.
It was much more restricted in the 1970s, so I struggled with that because my body movements are so inherently of my generation.” Riley also recently shared about filming a sex scene with her husband Ben Smith-Petersen for Daisy Jones & The Six.
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