Riley Keough brings music pedigree to ‘Daisy Jones’

Actor Riley Keough — the granddaughter of rock legend Elvis Presley who is embroiled in a legal battle with grandmother Priscilla Presley over his lucrative estate — is back in the spotlight to promote her new Prime Video series, “Daisy Jones & the Six.”

While she remains mum on the brewing dispute catalyzed by the January death of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, and opted out of an event last week for her new show, Keough is now forging ahead with her music-adjacent acting career, even joining TikTok to give it a little boost.

The “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Zola” actor told “Entertainment Tonight” on Wednesday that despite her family’s impressive recording pedigree, she and co-star Sam Claflin had to work hard to develop their own musical abilities for “Daisy Jones,” which is an adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 breakthrough novel and stars the duo as 1970s California rockers Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne.

“It’s pretty amazing. I think we really came from not being able to play anything on a guitar or sing really, to having a full record going out, which is like it’s crazy to us, I think,” Keough said. “We had months of jam sessions, so we had months of rehearsals, so we were basically in band practice for, I don’t know, a year.”

When asked what it means to be continuing her family’s musical legacy in the series, which premieres March 3, the 33-year-old actor downplayed that notion.

Notably less fun is Keough’s impending drama with her grandmother, who challenged Lisa Marie Presley’s will in late January. Priscilla, 77, is contesting “the authenticity and validity” of her daughter’s appointment of Keough and her late brother

Benjamin Keough as co-trustees of Lisa Marie’s trust in 2016.