Stevie Nicks has an idea for a second season of Daisy Jones & the Six.
In an in-depth interview with Rolling Stone published Thursday, the music icon reflected on the ending of the Prime series in which Sam Claflin’s Billy Dunne reunites with Riley Keough‘s Daisy after encouragement from his wife to give his former bandmate a call after she passes away.
Though the series’ ending was left for the audience to debate on what truly happens and offered a feeling of possibility, Nicks ponders what could be should the show ever have another season.
“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.
She also revealed that she shared her thoughts with Keough and Reese Witherspoon, who exec produced the show: “I talked to Reese and Riley about it, and they loved the idea, but everybody’s so busy. 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.”
Daisy Jones & the Six, which chronicles the rise and downfall of a fictional ’70s band, was frequently compared to Fleetwood Mac with Keough and Claflin’s characters seeming to emulate that of Nicks and her former Fleetwood Mac bandmate and ex-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Though author Taylor Jenkins Reid, who wrote the book that the series was adapted from, has confirmed that her story was not strictly based on the band, they did serve as one of the inspirations.
Following the series’ release, Nicks had took to social media at the time to share her thoughts, describing watching the series as something that “brought back memories” and “made me feel like a ghost watching my own story.”
In her Rolling Stone interview, Nicks further elaborated on her thoughts about watching the series: “I didn’t even want to see it, because I thought I was going to hate it so much. 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 then addressed the similarities and differences between herself and Keough’s Daisy, as well as Suki Waterhouse’s Karen Sirko to keyboardist Christine McVie.
“Riley doesn’t look like me. She’s much snappier than me. I couldn’t be as snappy as her in Fleetwood Mac. Christine and I couldn’t do that, because we were the peacemakers. [Keough] could be totally shitty and a smart ass 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.
She continued, “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.”
As for Claflin’s Billy Dunne, Nicks says he emulated “so much” of 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. One of my favorites was Camila [Morrone]. I thought that Camila and Daisy were a really good combination of me, the two of them put them together.”
Daisy Jones & the Six went on to receive nine Emmy nominations, including a lead actress one for Keough. The series’ album Aurora, which featured original music performed by the cast, was nominated for best compilation soundtrack for visual media at the Grammys.
Given the success of the series and music, Waterhouse revealed in a YouTube vlog that the cast was set to take the stage at the 2023 Lollapalooza festival but the performance was canceled in the wake of the SAG-AFTRA strike at the time.
The show was a limited series, therefore a second season was never planned or confirmed.
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