Stevie Nicks wasn’t clamoring to watch Prime Video‘s Daisy Jones & the Six, but after having viewed — and liked — the show (adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel and loosely based on her romance with fellow Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham), she has some ideas of her own to contribute for Season 2.
“I didn’t even want to see it, because I thought I was going to hate it so much,” the Grammy winner told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. “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 continued, “Riley [Keough] 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 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.”
The twice-inducted Rock & Roll Hall of Famer concluded, “I thought Suki [Waterhouse] 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. And I thought Billy [played by Sam 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.”
When asked about the musical drama’s Season 1 conclusion, Nicks pitched an idea that she said executive producer Reese Witherspoon and star Keough were ecstatic about.
“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. 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.”
Billed as a limited series for the 75th Primetime Emmys held in January, Daisy Jones & the Six scored nine nominations, winning two of its categories in Period Costumes and Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. While showrunner and co-creator Scott Neustadter has expressed openness about continuing the story, Keough previously told Deadline that it was unlikely: “It was such a wonderful experience. I think all of us would love to work together in any capacity again. I don’t know how much room they left for that, but I definitely would work with everyone on the show again.” As of now, there are no plans for a second installment.
Elsewhere in Nicks’ profile piece, the singer-songwriter admitted that though she has seen Daisy Jones & the Six, she hasn’t viewed — or heard of — another fictionalized retelling of Mac’s story, the popular Broadway play Stereophonic.
