She’s a gold dust woman.
Rock star Stevie Nicks, 76, said that she pitched Reese Witherspoon and Riley Keough on a second season of “Daisy Jones & the Six.”
“I talked to Reese and Riley about it, and they loved the idea, but everybody’s so busy,” she told Rolling Stone in a recent interview.
She added, “Riley’s on her way to becoming a big movie star. But maybe one of these days, they’ll do it. Until I saw ‘Daisy Jones & the Six,’ I would have never thought it was even possible to emulate our life.”
The Prime Video limited series, based on a novel of the same name, was about the rise and fall of a fictional ’70s rock band loosely based on Fleetwood Mac. The show, exec produced by Witherspoon, got nine Emmy nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Keough — who was playing a rock star when she’s the real-life daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis Presley.
The story follows Daisy (Keough) as she gets involved with the band The Six and falls in love with troubled frontman Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), even though he’s married. The two have a mostly chaste emotional affair. After he returns to his wife and she dies of cancer, the show ends by implying that Daisy and Billy are getting back together 20 years later.
“I wish that it could go into what if … had Billy come back after Billy’s wife died and knocked on her door, and they decided to make that last record that I always hoped that Lindsey and I would make. That would make a fantastic second season,” Nicks said, referring to Lindsey Buckingham.
Nicks and Buckingham had a famously tumultuous relationship from the early ’70s until 1976, and they wrote and performed several iconic songs about it, such as “Go Your Own Way.”
“I didn’t even want to see it, because I thought I was going to hate it so much,” Nicks confessed to Rolling Stone, referring to “Daisy Jones & the Six.”
The “Landslide” singer added, “I had COVID when I saw it. I was in my condo in Los Angeles, and I can remember saying, ‘Am I just watching my life go by?’”
She added that Keough’s Daisy had several differences from her.
“Riley doesn’t look like me. She’s much snappier than me. I couldn’t be as snappy as her in Fleetwood Mac. Christine [McVie] and I couldn’t do that, because we were the peacemakers. [Keough] could be totally s—-y and a smartass and totally arrogant, because she wasn’t even in the band, and they weren’t even nice to her. So that was the biggest difference. But as far as her character went, it was very similar to me. And I instantly wanted to call her and meet her, and I did,” Nicks said.
About Suki Waterhouse, who played Karen Sirko in the show — the character loosely based on McVie — Nicks said, “I thought Suki was a great Christine — in her Englishness and just the way that she dressed. And you know what I was really sad about? That Christine didn’t get to see that, because she would’ve been so tickled by her.”
Nicks also had some thoughts about “The Hunger Games” star Claflin’s performance as Billy and his similarities to Buckingham.
“I thought Billy [Claflin] was spectacular. I thought he captured so much of Lindsey that it was creepy. He had the curls and that dark handsomeness that Lindsey had.”