Sam Claflin and Riley Keough take us behind an episode 8 scene that brings on the waterworks.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about episode 8 ofDaisy Jones & the Six.
Daisy Jones was almost neither the muse, nor the somebody.
Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Nicky, high himself, throws Daisy in the shower, not knowing what else to do.
But as challenging as it was to watch, it was as difficult for the actors to film.
“I found that to be really emotional,” Keough tells EW of the scene.
Riley Keough as Daisy Jones.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
“It was hard for me to shoot.
It’s a really sad scene.
Sometimes I can’t overthink it.
Sam Claflin and Riley Keough as Billy and Daisy.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
I have to go and be in the moment.”
For Claflin, the scene was about leaning into the raw emotion of the sequence.
“That was one of those scenes that it wasn’t really scripted necessarily,” he explains.
“What I’m saying when I’m there.
It was like, ‘Say whatever you’d say if you were in that situation.’
Personally, I hadn’t been through that kind of experience before.
“It was a very, very difficult scene,” he adds.
He isn’t phased at all.
It makes Billy’s emotional turmoil even more heartbreaking.
Because Rod is like, ‘Oh, we need a doctor.’
It’s underplayed in a wonderful way that makes the magic even more elevated.”
The scene exposes how deeply Billy cares for Daisy, even if he can’t admit it.
It also reminds him of why she’s dangerous; he came close to a similar fate.
But what about Daisy, who by now is married to Nicky and spinning out of control?
Did some part of her want to take her life in that moment?
“That’s something left open for the audience’s interpretation,” Keough says.
She has an addiction problem and tends to self-destruct and not want to feel pain.
But that’s as far as I would like to assess it.
The rest is up to the audience."
Daisy Jones & the Sixis now streaming onPrime Videowith new episodes dropping every Friday through March 24.
