Riley Keough: Nepo babies, Addiction & Grief (FBF)

**Alex Cooper** (0:11)
Riley Keough, welcome to Call Her Daddy.

**Riley Keough** (0:13)
Thank you.

**Alex Cooper** (0:14)
I am such a big fan. Thank you for being here.

**Riley Keough** (0:17)
Thank you for having me.

**Alex Cooper** (0:18)
Of course. I, huge Daisy Jones and the Sixth Girl.

**Riley Keough** (0:22)
Oh, cool.

**Alex Cooper** (0:23)
Like, binged the whole thing and sitting. Loved it.

**Riley Keough** (0:26)
Thanks for watching.

**Alex Cooper** (0:27)
My husband was like, you could take a break. And I'm like, no, no, no, it's kind of one of those where you just got to get, I got to get to the end.

**Riley Keough** (0:33)
It was awesome.

**Alex Cooper** (0:34)
What was your favorite part of playing that role?

**Riley Keough** (0:37)
I think getting to learn, like to sing and play guitar was my favorite part because it was, I think that's one of my favorite things about acting in general is learning like a whole new skill set. And this one was like very in like, normally you do a few rehearsals or do if you're, you know, training to do, I don't know, to be a dancer or whatever. I don't know. Like I've never done something so involved. Like I haven't had to fully learn to like sing and play guitar.
So I found that really fun.

**Alex Cooper** (1:10)
Wait, you were doing like full voice lessons.

**Riley Keough** (1:13)
We were doing, yeah, like we had band practice every day and it was like a year long, but we needed it. Like none of us, not none of us, a few of us had never picked up an instrument and or sang.

**Alex Cooper** (1:29)
Was there ever a point in your life that you would have considered a music career?

**Riley Keough** (1:33)
Never.

**Alex Cooper** (1:33)
No.

**Riley Keough** (1:34)
Never. No, I still would never. I'm not a singer.

**Alex Cooper** (1:37)
I feel like you have a good voice unless they auto-tuned it.

**Riley Keough** (1:39)
It's fine.
They didn't auto-tune it, but I have a fine voice. I just got by, but I'm a realist and I know I'm not a singer.

**Alex Cooper** (1:48)
The fact that you're telling me they didn't edit your voice, you have a good voice.

**Riley Keough** (1:52)
They didn't edit it, I think.

**Alex Cooper** (1:55)
You call them, they're like, oh, babe, that shit was auto-tuned when you're like, I don't think they auto-tuned it.

**Riley Keough** (2:02)
I think the whole point was because it was meant to sound 1970s that you wouldn't do that.

**Alex Cooper** (2:05)
Yeah. You sounded gorgeous.

**Riley Keough** (2:09)
I felt proud that I was able to do it because there was a conversation about potentially getting vocal stunt doubles or something. Oh my God. I felt really determined to make it work and I feel proud we made it work. I don't think I'm the best singer in the world and that's fine.

**Alex Cooper** (2:30)
You made it work with flying colors.

**Riley Keough** (2:31)
I made it work.

**Alex Cooper** (2:32)
I love how you're like, no, no, no, I like never sang. From my research, you and Dakota Johnson were in a band together in New York City. Don't lie to my face.

**Riley Keough** (2:43)
This is so funny. This comes up so often and I think that we need to do something here because yes, we were in a band but the band was me and her sitting with her brother around a table in her apartment in New York with photo booth doing covers of songs. But here's the thing, neither of us were confident singers, so we were just all singing together.

**Alex Cooper** (3:06)
So you were all competing for the lead role.

**Riley Keough** (3:08)
We were all the lead.

**Alex Cooper** (3:09)
You're all the lead. Wait, what was the band called?

**Riley Keough** (3:12)
Fokey Porn.

**Alex Cooper** (3:14)
Fokey Porn?

**Riley Keough** (3:14)
Perfect for Call Her Daddy.

**Alex Cooper** (3:15)
Wait, I'm obsessed. I had a band at one point and I was so committed. Did you really? Yeah, but it was so bad.

**Riley Keough** (3:22)
What did you do?

**Alex Cooper** (3:23)
Well, here's the thing.
I started as the electric guitarist. Cool. But that is loosely saying that the only song I could-

**Riley Keough** (3:33)
A loose electric guitar. I relate.
I'm a loose guitar player.

**Alex Cooper** (3:38)
I looked incredible holding it, but the minute I would get going, I was giving nothing. I knew how to play the like, da, da, da, da, da, da, whatever that song is. I could do those three little things. That was all I knew.