- Hey, what's up? We're Daisy Jones & The Six.
And we're here in the Blue Room
at South by Southwest with Prime Video.
- We're about to answer some questions in the Blue Room.
I'm getting this shuffled up
because we're taking this seriously.
- He's been shuffling this for like 10 minutes.
- Yeah. It's true.
♪ Found me lost in a ditch ♪
- Mine was Cameron Diaz.
- Oh!
- From which movie?
- "Something about Mary."
- Oh. - Oh
- I don't know his name, but it was like
a Nickelodeon show, a Hillary Duff show.
And he was like, this long-haired.
Someone find him, please.
- Hillary Duff.
- It was a Hillary duff show.
- The one with a little cartoon?
- No, the like real, like, live action.
- But it was a kid's show.
I think for me it was probably simultaneously Penelope Cruz
and Javier Bardem, and the fact
that they're actually like together,
they're like a married couple is like a wild thing.
- Mine was Princess Jasmine from "Aladdin."
- Bing bang bong!
- Like animated, which is a bit creepy.
(upbeat music)
- I feel like one we've been definitely crawling towards
was when we were all swapping instruments on stage
and Cami was supposed to be doing this very serious moment.
- She was crying. - She was crying and watching.
Nabiyah was on the drums.
I was the lead singer.
You were on guitar?
You were what?
- I feel like I was just boogieing around.
I don't know what I was doing.
- You were on the, the shaker and the fucking tambourine.
- Yeah
- This one didn't make the cut, but when Riley
and I were in Greece, we had a scene with a goat.
And the guy who was taming the goat, he had one line.
He was like rehearsing the line over
and over and over again.
Had this huge mustache
and we just couldn't take him seriously.
And the goat started peeing and pooping everywhere.
(laughter)
- Goats are terrible. - Yeah. That didn't make it,
but maybe one day we'll get to see the goat.
- I had a scene in a car with my daughter.
They gave me this brand new child who I hadn't met.
- Brand new. - Was like two years old.
She was asleep. - Mint condition.
- And they were like, she's asleep.
She's asleep.
And as Cami got out of the car, she slammed the door.
She sort of stood on my lap and I was like, hi?
She just sort of looked at me
and then started screaming, like, I mean fully screaming.
And I was like, is it 'cause mommy's guys?
You know trying to like improvise
with this two year old stranger.
- For me, I would say one of, one of the fun scenes that was
in the last couple episodes actually was when
we're all dropping acid on the roof of the
the Laurel Canyon house. - I love that episode.
- And like every take
we're doing kind of something different.
They're like, hey Josh, like maybe everyone else
in the scene is an alien
and I'm like, - That's right.
- Yeah. Like Sebastian, I don't know.
Do something with the,
with the trees and like, are you fighting demons?
Like, okay. Like we're just messing around.
- That translated to, to what we see.
- I think a lot of the preparation
for this project had a lot to do with the music
and so we had so much time to really get specific with it.
And I think like if you see any musician
like the specificity about how they hold, you know
their sticks or how they have their kit set up, you know
I wanted that to reflect how weird Warren is.
So he has like a tilted kind of jazz set up
but he plays with like double button like timbale sticks
and I had to learn traditional grip
cause I thought it would just look funnier.
- I had to lose weight, I had to grow hair.
I had to shave my chest and my face.
- Play guitar
- Learn guitar, learn to sing, learn to record.
- Be American.
- I would say Simone is probably the character
that's the most expanded upon.
So there was a lot of back and forth
between me and the team to just really build who she was,
where she was from.
Knowing that I was probably one
of the few black voices in the space,
there was a lot that was coming from my experience.
They gave me this huge 200 plus disco research,
and I really wanted to make sure
that I was honoring what I learned there, as well.
- I mean, I felt like I'd been Eddie
for a long time in many ways
in terms of being a musician.
And so I felt like a lot of the backstory there was kind of
something I'd already lived or like had aspired to be
in my own life.
Trying to take some physicality from bass players on stages
in seventies festival and films where you see these guys
all kind of like
off their faces and they're just like playing, like
looking around at each other.
It's like, get a little bit of that.
- That's actually, that's really hard.
Something that I notice is like, when I play the drums,
I'm like, you know, and I'm like
I don't think that he would be making really tight lip face.
Like, I gotta make weird faces.
When you're doing something really hard
it's hard to change what naturally happens.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cause you're very focused.
- Right, exactly.
- I make tight faces when I play the drums.
- Right. - I'm like, I'm like
- Man, I got no lips.
So like, like when, you know
part of the process was just like
how can I make silly faces when I play?
I think that's more fun.
- Like there's so many good movies, but
for some reason it's always the Princess Bride that jumps
out to me.
- Oh. Okay.
- That's like some random classic gives me just good vibes.
It's funny.
- I would say for me, Lion,
the French film with Vincent Cassel.
- That's a great movie.
- I was only talking about this like recently.
- I love that movie. - So good.
- Like nineties, like French hiphop.
- Yeah. - That Or maybe like
Ichi The Killer.
The Japanese movie.
- Again, something I was only talking about yesterday,
which is a classic
and I think still holds up to a point today, is Jaws.
I think Spielberg's only just recently come
out and apologized for, to sharks for,
for that movie. But it's...
- They were demanding the apology?
- It is, it's like one of the best monster movies
ever made.
- Oh my God.
- And just yeah. Just really, really
traumatized me as a child.
- When the dude like the head comes out from under the boat.
It's like ah! - It's just amazing.
It's just amazing.
- I don't think I have a favorite, but this came to my mind.
It made me really proud. City of God.
It's a very intense movie. - Such a good movie.
- It changed my outlook on the craft.
It changed my outlook on Brazilian cinema,
and it made me feel like, oh, we can bring this
out to the international, international stage.
The process of bringing street kids
and people that weren't actors.
- Yeah. Right.
- To be actors.
It really changed the game for me.
- [Billy] I don't even know why we're doing this.
It's not a duet.
- Billy, you wrote a good song.
Not a great one.
- Did you guys want to record something or fight more?
I'm fine either way.
- [Teddy] Okay, let's get this started.
This is Honeycomb, take one.
(tape player clicks on)
(guitar music)
- [Daisy] Can I ask you a question?
What do you think the song's about?
- What do I think the song is about?
What, the song that I wrote?
- Yeah, what is the song about?
- What do I think the song that I wrote is about?
It's about starting a new life.
♪ I don't know who I am ♪
- [Billy] It's about dreaming about something different.
♪ Baby, baby, baby ♪
♪ Do you know who you are? ♪
- Don't stop.
- I wanted to tell you, - Hey Daisy, look,
we don't need to argue.
- I was just going to say that
I love the sound of your voice.
♪ We unraveled a long time ago ♪
♪ We lost and we couldn't let it go ♪
- Oh my God.
- [Reporter] Your first single and it hits number one.
How do you top that?
♪ Oh, we can make a good thing bad ♪
- [Billy] When you're making an album.
It's an intimate thing.
It has to be.
- I've never seen him smile this much in his life.
(upbeat rock music plays)
- [Camila] I used to be the first person that you'd
play things for.
♪ Oh baby, look at us now ♪
- It's what people want to see.
It's an act.
You know that.
♪ Oh baby, look at us now ♪
- Tell me that there's nothing going on between us.
Tell me if I'm crazy.
♪ Oh baby, look at us now ♪
- [Camila] If you love her...
- I don't.
- Well, if you ever do, that is when this ends.
♪ This thing we been doin' ♪
♪ Ain't working out ♪
♪ Why can't you just admit it to me? ♪
♪ Oh baby, look at us now. Baby, look at us now ♪
- Don't you think that it's time to add a little fire?
- Don't overthink it.
I'm the fire.
♪ Oh, we can make a good thing bad ♪