Stevie Nicks is just like Us — she wants more Daisy Jones & The Six!
The musician, 76, said she has pitched an idea for a second season of the hit music drama to executive producer Reese Witherspoon and star Riley Keough. The show — and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel on which it is based — was loosely based on Nicks’ iconic band Fleetwood Mac, and the recording of their 1977 album Rumours.
Originally intended as a limited series, Daisy Jones & The Six ended with Keough’s Nicks-inspired Daisy Jones and Sam Claflin’s Billy Dunne (based on Fleetwood guitarist Lindsey Buckingham) going their separate ways at the height of their band’s fame despite the romantic tension between them. But in one final twist, decades later, Billy’s dying wife, Camila (played by Camila Morrone), encouraged him to call Daisy — seemingly giving the star-crossed lovers her blessing. The final moments saw Billy turning up at Daisy’s door.
“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,” Nicks posited in an interview with Rolling Stone published Thursday, October 24. “That would make a fantastic second season.”
She continued, “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.”
Nicks admitted to the outlet that she originally had no intention of watching the Prime Video drama — which aired in March 2023 — “because I thought I was going to hate it so much,” but decided to give it a go while recovering from COVID-19.
“I was in my condo in Los Angeles, and I can remember saying, ‘Am I just watching my life go by?’” Nicks recalled.
Nicks went on to share her thoughts on the similarities — and differences — between Keough’s character and her real-life inspiration.
“Riley doesn’t look like me. She’s much snappier than me. I couldn’t be as snappy as her in Fleetwood Mac,” she said. “Christine [McVie, her bandmate] 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,” Nicks conceded. “And I instantly wanted to call her and meet her, and I did.”
Nicks also praised Suki Waterhouse, who played the McVie-inspired Karen Sirko, and Claflin’s portrayal of Billy.
“I thought Suki was a great Christine — in her Englishness and just the way that she dressed,” Nicks shared. “And I thought Billy 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.”
