Riley Keough is not your typical nepotism child.
Regardless of being a part of one of the vital well-known households on the earth, the 33-year-old granddaughter of rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley wished to ‘develop up’ earlier than making her debut into the highlight on her personal phrases.
In contrast to Hollywood’s many ‘nepo infants’, Riley shies away from her household’s well-known title – eschewing Presley in favor of utilizing her father’s surname.
And that isn’t the one means wherein her entry into the heady world of TV and films has been markedly totally different from her fellow A-list offspring – not least due to her late mom, Lisa Marie Presley’s willpower to defend her daughter from the pitfalls of fame from an early age, within the hopes that she may take pleasure in a ‘regular’ childhood.
Normality isn’t one thing that was typically afforded to Lisa Marie, who handed away on Thursday on the age of 54 after struggling a cardiac arrest. Nevertheless her want to domesticate a conventional childhood for her youngsters – away from the trimmings of the stereotypical Hollywood upbringing – appears to have carried out wonders for her daughter.
Riley Keough, the 33-year-old granddaughter of Elvis, wished to ‘develop up’ earlier than making her debut into the highlight on her personal phrases
Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, Riley Keough and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood pictured in 2022
‘She was like, “I don’t need you rising up like one other Hollywood movie star daughter.” She was so not about that life, you understand?’ Riley instructed Nylon journal in 2016.
‘She didn’t actually put consideration on it. It was there. We’d get photographed doing stuff, however I didn’t see a tabloid till I used to be 15.’
In her teenagers, Riley turned her consideration to modelling, strolling for Dolce & Gabbana and showing in Dior campaigns.
However Riley didn’t get away onto the performing scene till she was 20 in 2010’s The Runaways – starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart – as Marie Currie, the sister of the band’s lead singer Cherie.
‘I went on a film set and noticed that you just don’t have to speak loudly and placed on this large flamboyant present whenever you’re making a film,’ she instructed Girls’s Put on Day by day.
‘It’s probably the most snug place for me. Clearly the primary day of capturing is all the time actually scary, however once I’m doing it, it’s simply the most effective feeling on the earth and probably the most snug I’m at any level.’
So how did a ‘means too introverted and shy’ little lady flip into certainly one of Hollywood’s most promising stars with out buying and selling on her legendary household title?
Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana stroll the runway with Riley within the 2000s
How Lisa Marie wished Riley to have a ‘regular’ life with out the pitfalls of fame whereas rising up
Being the kid of The King made Riley’s mom very conscious of what it was like rising up surrounded by fame.
The 33-year-old instructed InStyle in 2021 Lisa Marie all the time emphasised the significance of creating your individual means in life.
‘I grew up with my mother saying, “Something you do in life, you are going to must take it severely, and work actually onerous at it, and be actually good at it. Do not simply dip your toes into issues,”‘ Riley stated.
‘Which is my nature anyway, with performing and with issues I wish to be doing. I additionally had this factor the place, whenever you develop up in LA and everybody’s performing, I felt this sense of… I used to be a bit of bit afraid to fail.’
Priscilla Presley holding her son, Navarone Anthony Garibaldi, alongside her daughter, Lisa Marie, who holds her daughter, Riley
Riley shared this photograph of her and her late brother, Benjamin, collectively on Instagram
Pictured in 2022 are Riley with Lisa Marie, Navarone Garibaldi and brother Benjamin Keough
One other childhood photograph of Riley and Benjamin. She posted this photograph in a 2021 tribute to her brother
A black and white photograph of the siblings collectively. Their mom wished them to have a ‘regular’ childhood
In 2007, Riley, then 18, appeared on Oprah along with her mom who gushed about her daughter forging her personal profession after having success as a mannequin.
‘I didn’t need them to lose their very own identification. I simply wished them to be raised usually. We now have extra conversations about him (Elvis) now as a result of she’s older,’ Lisa Marie stated.
‘I did not need her to have that shadow the place she felt in competitors and intimidated by something. I wished [my children] to have the ability to do what they wished to do.
‘I used to be raised to by no means flaunt being who I’m… I type of raised them the identical means, simply do your factor, keep who you might be, be appreciative of it.’
In the identical interview, Riley additionally revealed her household did not make a ‘big factor’ when exhibiting her images of her iconic grandfather.
Showing on Oprah collectively in 2007, Riley, then 18, appeared along with her mom
In the identical interview, Riley additionally revealed her household did not make a ‘big factor’ when exhibiting her images of her iconic grandfather
‘I didn’t need them to lose their very own identification. I simply wished them to be raised usually,’ Lisa Marie stated. Oprah pictured proper with Lisa Marie and Riley
When her mom’s relationship along with her father, musician Danny Keough, broke down, Riley was concerning the age of six and it meant transferring round lots, so the actress ended up with a ‘bizarre relationship’ with college.
‘I feel I type of all the time felt misplaced, and I all the time felt like I might miss issues,’ Riley recalled to InStyle.
‘I felt like I used to be behind – I might get into a brand new college, after which I must go away, after which I would not sustain with the curriculum, after which I might must go to a different college. That is once I was little or no.
‘So I type of simply gave up, and I home-schooled, after which I type of gave up on that too. I did not graduate highschool.
Riley poses through the Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2004 Prepared To Put on Assortment Runway Present
Mom and daughter with designers Stefano Dolce and Domenico Gabbana in 2003
‘Nevertheless it’s a disgrace, as a result of I actually wished an schooling, and I actually wished to go to varsity, I simply did not have a life-style that will allow that.’
Riley instructed The Guardian she ‘grew up very privileged with my mom.’
‘However my dad didn’t dwell like that. And I feel experiencing each side has been useful. My father had mattresses on the ground of his flats. He lived in cabins and trailer parks. He simply didn’t have a lot cash,’ she stated.
‘My recollections of rising up with him have been so colourful and eccentric and enjoyable. It was a superb vibe, you understand? Once I was like eight I instructed him, “I wish to develop up and be poor such as you!” He was consuming a bowl of cereal. I didn’t realise how wildly offensive that was.’
How Riley Keough has turn into a quiet Hollywood success with out utilizing the Presley title
Riley has turn into an indie darling whereas additionally showing in some huge Hollywood blockbusters, similar to Mad Max: Fury Highway and Magic Mike.
She’s additionally starred as Christine Learn, a regulation pupil who works as a high-end intercourse employee, in Starz collection The Girlfriend Expertise in addition to A24 movies American Honey, reverse Shia LeBeouf, and Zola with Taylour Paige.
Regardless of being a quiet baby (in a WWD interview she described her youthful self as ‘actually, actually shy’), she was keen on movie.
‘At [age] 9, 10, 11, I used to be making motion pictures all day, and I had a really sensible mindset about all of it for a kid,’ she instructed InStyle.
Riley starred alongside Dakota Johnson within the 2010 movie The Runaways, enjoying Marie Currie
She was additionally solid as Christine Learn, a regulation pupil who works as a high-end intercourse employee, in Starz collection The Girlfriend Expertise
Riley as Succesful, Courtney Eaton as Cheedo the Fragile, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad in Mad Max: Fury Highway
It was throughout reshoots for Mad Max: Fury Highway that she met her now husband, Australian Ben Smith-Petersen. Pictured are Abbey Lee, Zoe Kravitz, Courtney Eaton, Rose Huntington-Whiteley and Riley within the film
‘I used to be like, “I’ll attempt to mannequin, get my very own cash, after which I’ll end college, and I’ll begin performing after I am 18, as a result of I wish to be a child.”‘
Riley scored her first performing gig when she was 20, enjoying Marie Currie, lead singer Cherie’s sister, within the 2010 movie The Runaways.
‘There have been some occasions once I was like, “F–ok, I want I had a cool half.” As a result of they seemed so cool and also you simply wish to be certainly one of them (the principle solid members),’ she instructed WWD on the time.
‘I’m actually proud of my half. It was actually cool to even put that within the film as a result of it was a extremely vital a part of Cherie’s life.’
From there her second movie was 2011’s The Good Physician with Hollywood A-lister Orlando Bloom.
She’s starred alongside Adam Driver and Daniel Craig in Logan Fortunate (pictured right here as Mellie Logan within the movie)
Riley Keough, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie and Benjamin Keough pictured in 2010
After which she was employed the following 12 months to play stripper Nora within the profitable Channing Tatum-led Magic Mike, a job that noticed her find out about ‘underwear and spray tans,’ in line with IndieWire.
Whereas engaged on Magic Mike, she met Alex Pettyfer – the pair ended up briefly engaged.
She was solid in The Girlfriend Expertise 5 years later, however initially she had a little bit of trepidation enjoying a intercourse employee.
‘I used to be projecting my very own views, judgments, and morals onto this particular person, they weren’t giving lots to me, however I used to be rooting for her,’ Riley instructed IndieWire in 2016.
Since then she’s appeared alongside Adam Driver and Daniel Craig in Logan Fortunate, with Tom Holland in The Satan All The Time and Andrew Garfield in Below The Silver Lake, to call just a few tasks in her prolific record of credit.
It was whereas engaged on Mad Max: Fury Highway that she met her husband, Australian Ben Smith-Petersen, who was a stuntman on the movie.
Riley pictured along with her late brother, Benjamin, at her wedding ceremony in 2015
She met her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, in Sydney whereas she was doing reshoots for Mad Max: Fury Highway. They’re pictured right here in 2021
Quickly Riley (she is pictured right here with Lisa Marie final 12 months) can be Daisy Jones in Daisy Jones & The Six
The pair tied the knot in 2015 in Napa Valley’s vineyards in California.
They met throughout reshoots in Sydney for Mad Max: Fury Highway in 2013 and she or he penned an essay for Vogue about their whirlwind romance.
Riley, who performed Succesful within the movie, stated: ‘I used to be simply out of a relationship that I wanted to recuperate from, so positively wasn’t searching for something. Ben was on set and I noticed him. It had been a 12 months, and he simply felt extra grown up and there was one thing about him. I used to be like, “Oh wow.” He felt a lot extra mature.’
She added: ‘It felt like I didn’t wish to be away from him. I simply felt so snug.’
Riley instructed USA Right this moment in 2016: ‘Two weeks into relationship him, we have been at a gasoline station and I used to be like, “I may see myself having youngsters with this particular person.” It was type of like I knew I used to be assembly my husband. It was very cool.’
Final 12 months she made her first film at 32 as director of Struggle Pony, which premiered at Cannes.
The pair tied the knot in 2015 in Napa Valley’s vineyards in California. Pictured in 2016
Riley, who performed Succesful within the movie, stated: ‘I used to be simply out of a relationship that I wanted to recuperate from, so positively wasn’t searching for something.’ The couple in 2019
Riley revealed she grappled with nepotism and the pressures of that made her actually nervous initially, however she was now extra snug with it. Pictured in 2018
Riley revealed she grappled with nepotism and the pressures of that made her actually nervous initially, however she was now extra snug with it.
‘It helps you in so some ways, it helps you’ve got extra assets,’ she stated throughout a Kering Girls In Movement Speak.
Riley stated it additionally helped her pursuits weren’t tied to music, which made up numerous her household legacy.
‘I feel it is separate inherently as a result of it is not music as nicely. I feel for any individual like my mom that will have been harder as a result of there was like a comparability factor and though my grandparents did do performing, it wasn’t the first focus,’ she stated.
Quickly she can be Daisy Jones in Daisy Jones & The Six, which is slated for launch this 12 months.
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