00:00 Crazy fun fact, Zoe and I's parents were friends
00:02 when we were really little.
00:04 So we would hang out as Nepo babies, literally.
00:07 [laughing]
00:09 Hi, I'm Riley Keough, and today I'm going to be
00:12 revisiting some photos from my life.
00:15 This is reframed.
00:22 I feel nervous.
00:25 I don't know what's coming for me right now.
00:27 So I'm a little anxious.
00:30 [laughing]
00:31 But I'm excited, and this is very cool.
00:33 Oh my God, Hanson!
00:37 This was like the best day of my life.
00:40 That's my brother and that's me,
00:41 and I was like the biggest Hanson fan.
00:44 I mean, I think every girl was probably
00:47 the biggest Hanson fan, but I was like truly,
00:49 like huge fan, and my mom took us backstage in New York,
00:54 and we got to meet Hanson.
00:56 And I think at the time, I loved Zach Hanson.
01:00 I had a Zach and Taylor moment, and I think this was Zach.
01:04 I'd cut my hair here, but I looked like Hanson.
01:07 A lot, and I remember being a fan of them,
01:11 but also going like, I feel like also
01:13 this could be my family.
01:14 I follow them on Instagram, they don't follow me back.
01:18 Okay, this is really sweet.
01:22 This was also really cringe.
01:24 This was my very first fashion show,
01:26 walking in a fashion show for Dolce & Gabbana.
01:29 I would've been like 14.
01:30 I remember I was very nervous,
01:32 and I remember they were playing,
01:34 I think it was "Queen" by Prince.
01:36 It was a big moment for my 14-year-old self.
01:39 My whole life is pretty public,
01:41 but I think this probably felt like the first time
01:43 that I was doing something alone,
01:45 as opposed to like a family thing.
01:49 I keep thinking this is a microphone,
01:51 and I'm supposed to be talking to it.
01:54 Oh, this is a good narrative,
01:56 'cause now we're with Dior,
01:58 and we're walking in the Dior show,
02:00 and she's grown up a little bit.
02:01 She's a little older, she probably is walking
02:03 a little better.
02:04 The one thing I remember about this show
02:06 is that a lot of the girls had to wear hair pieces,
02:09 or it took a lot of work to get their frizz out like that,
02:13 and mine was like, [imitates buzzing]
02:15 which is natural, 'cause my hair is really frizzy.
02:18 Okay, I was very nervous here.
02:22 This was so weird.
02:24 I don't know why I was so nervous.
02:25 I was just presenting,
02:26 but Zoe and I, who's a very good friend of mine,
02:29 we got asked to present together for an MTV thing,
02:33 and I think we just had to be like,
02:35 "Here's Vampire Weekend,"
02:36 and I remember being so nervous.
02:38 I don't know why.
02:39 I get stage fright when I'm myself.
02:42 Crazy fun fact.
02:44 Zoe and I's parents were friends when we were really little,
02:47 so we would hang out as Nepo babies, literally.
02:50 [laughs]
02:53 And our parents breastfed us next to each other.
02:57 Yeah, so we met a long time ago,
03:00 but we re-met when I was probably 17.
03:03 I think it was a house party in LA.
03:05 We had a lot of mutual friends,
03:06 and we just became very good friends,
03:09 and then we did "Mad Max" together,
03:10 and she's a lifelong childhood friend.
03:14 Wow, this is very cute.
03:18 So this was my very first movie premiere.
03:21 I was maybe 19 or 20 or something,
03:24 and I'm with Kristen and Dakota and Joan.
03:26 It was for "The Runaways."
03:27 This was the first movie I ever booked,
03:29 and it was with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning,
03:32 who at the time were the most famous people in the world,
03:37 and I was probably like, "Ugh," which is that vibe.
03:41 I think they thought I didn't wanna hang out,
03:43 but I was just really nervous.
03:45 But yeah, now Kristen is a very good friend of mine,
03:48 and Dakota, haven't seen Joan in a while,
03:51 but she's cool.
03:52 Okay, I'm nervous, but here we go.
03:55 This was a music video I did with Justin Timberlake.
03:58 I was playing the love interest.
04:01 I had to be in a toxic relationship with Justin
04:05 and fight around the kitchen,
04:07 and then I hit him with a pan.
04:08 I remember it was a roll that they sent out to the agencies
04:13 that was like, "We need an actor for this
04:15 "because there's acting involved,"
04:18 because I get really angry and throw some beans
04:21 or something, I can't remember.
04:22 And yeah, it was just very cool.
04:24 I mean, it's like, again, my teenage dream.
04:26 It's crazy to be in a video with Justin Timberlake.
04:29 I think I was like, "This is crazy," you know?
04:32 Just a moment of like, "Wow, I made it."
04:34 No, I'm just kidding. [laughs]
04:37 This is the war rig in "Mad Max Fury Road,"
04:41 where I spent many, many, many months
04:43 sitting with these guys.
04:45 Probably one of the most life-changing experiences
04:48 of my life thus far.
04:50 I was in Namibia for seven or eight months
04:53 shooting this crazy movie
04:55 and made some of my best lifelong friends
04:58 and had a really wild experience.
05:01 We would just do these really long days in the desert
05:04 and just be in the war rig,
05:06 and it felt like what you see in the movie,
05:08 just very intense, and then go home
05:10 and all hang out together.
05:13 I met my husband.
05:14 When we were shooting, the crew was so huge
05:16 and there were so many stunties.
05:18 I kind of was like, "Oh, he's kind of cute."
05:21 I asked him to teach me how to surf,
05:24 which is really funny 'cause I have no interest
05:26 in learning how to surf now. [laughs]
05:28 But I told him I was gonna surf
05:31 and do all these things with him,
05:32 and I pretended I was this cool, beachy girl, and no.
05:37 [laughs]
05:40 None.
05:41 I catfished him.
05:43 [laughs]
05:46 This is a scene from a movie I did
05:48 called "Under the Silver Lake" with Andrew Garfield,
05:51 and I'm looking at the sky.
05:52 This was a very cool movie to film
05:54 because it was in Los Angeles,
05:56 and I've only ever been able to film three things
05:58 in Los Angeles, which is where I live.
06:00 Didn't have a lot to do in this movie
06:02 'cause, spoiler alert, I disappear. [laughs]
06:05 But I do have a memory on this set
06:11 where it was actually very stressful.
06:13 I was in the makeup trailer,
06:16 and I was eating a granola bar or something,
06:20 and I was about to shoot a scene
06:21 where I have to kiss Andrew,
06:22 and the makeup lady was like, "Are there peanuts in that?"
06:26 And I was like, "I think, I don't know."
06:28 And then she ran away and got the producer,
06:31 who's a friend of mine, and the producer came in
06:33 and was like, "Riley, Andrew's very allergic to peanuts,
06:37 "and we have to shut the set down."
06:39 And they shouldn't have been at craft,
06:41 and I don't know why they're on set.
06:44 Yeah, and I was just kind of like, "Oh, fuck.
06:47 "That's crazy."
06:48 But also, thank God that this woman caught it
06:50 'cause I had no idea.
06:53 This is me with two people who I love very dearly,
06:58 Taylor Page and Janicza Bravo, shooting "Zola."
07:01 I spent a lot of time with Janicza
07:03 kind of trying to understand exactly what she wanted
07:06 'cause on the page, the character was totally outrageous,
07:08 and Janicza's kind of like allowed me to go
07:13 as far as I wanted and didn't kind of pull me back in,
07:17 which was a really fun experience.
07:19 There was like one day where we were shooting a scene
07:22 between Nick Braun and I, and I have to throw,
07:24 I have to throw a phone at him,
07:28 and I threw it so hard on this take,
07:31 and it went, and hit him in the balls.
07:33 And I felt like, I've never felt so bad.
07:36 Like, I was like, "Oh, fuck."
07:39 We cut, and he was like, he came up to me,
07:41 and he was like, "Did you do that on purpose?"
07:43 [laughs]
07:45 I was like, "I swear to God, I did not do that.
07:49 "It was an accident, and I'm so sorry."
07:52 And he was really hurt.
07:54 Like, I really hurt him.
07:56 It's not funny at all, but it was just funny
07:58 that he thought I did it on purpose.
08:00 If you're watching, Nick, I promise it was an accident.
08:03 [gasps]
08:05 Aw.
08:08 You guys are gonna make me cry with some of these.
08:10 So this was for the Elvis movie.
08:12 One of the things that we got to do
08:14 on this beautiful experience was put our hands
08:17 outside of Mann's Chinese Theater in the ground,
08:20 and we all got to do it together.
08:22 My mom, my grandmother, my sisters, and I,
08:25 and Baz and Austin were there to introduce us,
08:28 and my brother wasn't able to be there,
08:30 so we did his signature too,
08:33 and it was very emotional.
08:34 It was like, I don't think you can watch a film
08:37 about your family without it just being
08:40 incredibly personal experience.
08:42 This was Vanity Fair.
08:46 Woo!
08:47 [laughs]
08:48 Got to wear this beautiful dress that I loved very much,
08:51 and my husband was there.
08:52 He's there staring at me.
08:53 It's very overwhelming.
08:55 You see so many people you know,
08:56 and it's kind of hard to take in,
08:58 'cause it's such a big night,
09:00 and there's so much going on.
09:01 I love fashion.
09:03 I love clothes.
09:04 I love getting to work with my hair and makeup team,
09:08 'cause they're so wonderful and creative,
09:10 but they're also friends,
09:11 and so it's like a very fun experience,
09:14 'cause you're kind of getting to hang out with your friends,
09:16 and then you're going out for the night.
09:18 This is a good one.
09:21 This is me on stage with Sam Claflin
09:23 and Josh Whitehouse and Sebastian,
09:26 and we're playing in our band, Daisy Jones and the Six.
09:30 Very dear to my heart,
09:32 and I love these people very much,
09:33 and all the music stuff we shot over a period of two weeks,
09:37 and we were doing night shoots,
09:39 so we were kind of up all night,
09:40 starting work at like seven
09:41 and going home at nine in the morning.
09:43 I spent like about a year working with coaches,
09:47 vocal coaches and guitar lessons and piano lessons,
09:51 and then spent a lot of time in the studio
09:54 with Blake Mills and Tony Berg,
09:56 and yeah, I mean, we had a lot of rehearsal.
09:58 It was like very intense,
10:01 and I certainly wasn't able to sing
10:05 the way I am able to in the show when we started.
10:09 This is weird.
10:11 I like wanna cry at all these photos,
10:14 and I sort of feel like it's like my eulogy.
10:16 It's really also fun to talk about photos in this way,
10:20 because I feel like my relationship with photos
10:22 is like scrolling an Instagram,
10:25 and a photograph used to be like a moment captured,
10:28 and it was this sort of spectacular thing
10:31 that you have this picture of this thing that happened,
10:34 and now I feel like our relationship with photos
10:36 is just like isn't as impactful,
10:38 and so to sit down and look at photos and go,
10:41 okay, to really have a moment with them is really special.
10:45 I'm really grateful for this experience,
10:48 and so thank you, Vanity Fair.
10:50 (upbeat music)
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