Elvis Presley’s Granddaughter Dismisses Suggestions To Continue The Family Legacy

Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, has denied claims that her new musical TV role carries on her grandfather’s heritage.

The actress, 33, who is the offspring of the late Lisa Marie Presley and her ex-husband Danny Keough, plays the lead vocalist in the new Prime Video series “Daisy Jones and the Six,” but she didn’t feel any additional pressure to live up to her illustrious lineage.

She responded to a question on what it meant to carry on her family’s artistic legacy with Entertainment Tonight: “I certainly wouldn’t put that pressure on it. I don’t know if there is continuing my grandfather’s legacy, it’s its own sort of thing to me. But it was a really fun experience for me.

“I’m not a musician – or I am now I guess. I’ve been interested in film my whole life and so for me, it was more really loving to get to have a relationship with music in that way. I’ve listened to music and my whole family are musicians and I’ve been around this world a lot and been on tour and all that kind of stuff.

“But I’d never really done it myself. So for me, it was more about my personal relationship with getting to play music, which was fun.”

Keough acknowledged that despite being surrounded by musicians growing up, she struggled to discover her own talent.

In describing herself and her on-screen partner Sam Claflin, who plays Billy Dunne in the show: “It’s pretty amazing. I think we really came from not being able to play anything on a guitar or sing really to having a full record going out, which is like … it’s crazy to us I think.

“We had months of jam sessions, so we had months of rehearsals, so we were basically in band practice for, I don’t know, a year.”

The pair were both nervous when they met their singing coach together.
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Keough laughed: “Up until then, it’d just been like me auditioning alone and him auditioning alone, and it was this moment of like, ‘Oh, we’re both f bad’.”

Claflin added: “Yeah, oh phew, it’s not just me, I thought maybe she’s miles ahead of me, I was like, ‘Oh no, no, we’re both, we’re both terrible’.”