How did we end up like this?
Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutDaisy Jones & the Sixepisodes 4-6.
Or that’s what he’s going to tell himself, anyway.
Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne and Riley Keough as Daisy Jones.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
But showrunner Scott Neustadter always felt like perhaps that reminiscence didn’t give us the full truth.
“How much is he saying and how much is he hiding?
And how revisionist history is this?
Riley Keough and Sam Claflin on ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
And partially it’s why Daisy starts spinning out, because he’s gaslighting her.
He’s saying one thing and doing another.”
Keough anticipates the kiss will divide fans of the book.
“Ultimately, that was in Scott’s hands.”
But she argues that it’s not as simple as giving Daisy and Billy shippers what they want.
“It was also a very complicated kiss,” she explains.
“It’s not straightforward.
The way that it happened is complicated.
It’s still this grey area of, what was the intention?
It adds to that tension between them and trying to figure out what is going on for Billy.”
“The kiss doesn’t matter.
It’s whether you love her or not,” he says.
As a rig, it adds so much more flavor and makes the stakes higher.
For Billy, he thinks he’s in the wrong for having kissed her.
And it’s not about that.
It’s about whether he loves her or not."
And his assertion that he only kisses Daisy to get her to sing the song is one such instance.
“A hundred percent [he’s lying to himself,]” says Claflin.
The tension is palpable.
And he carries that up until the final episode."
Daisy Jones & the Sixis now streaming onPrime Videowith new episodes dropping every Friday through March 24.
