It has been a crazy ride for rock goddess Suki Waterhouse.
The shaggy model-turned-singer-actor spent greater than two years portraying the headstrong keyboard player in Prime Video’s hit series Daisy Jones & the Six – whose final two episodes about the fictional Seventies band air on Friday – while continuing own very real musical profession.
Months before the show’s release topped the television and music charts, Waterhouse headlined a 22-date tour, including a sold-out show at Recent York’s Webster Hall. Bathed in purple light and wearing Saint Laurent spandex pants and a sheer high-neck shirt, she sang memorable tracks from her debut album, I Cannot Let Go, to an adoring crowd that knew the words.
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“It was one among the best nights of my life,” says the charming 31-year-old Alexie. “I’ve only been on stage for a yr and the venues have grown from 100 people to almost 2,000 so quickly. I used to be a bit amazed.
The week she had her Alexa cover shoot, Waterhouse was on a busy “Daisy Jones” tour, appearing throughout town in cool retro outfits. At a photograph shoot with the forged at the Empire State Constructing, she looked like she stepped out of a time machine in Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini denim shorts, Adrienne Landau’s fluffy faux fur coat, floral necklace and giant sunglasses.
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In an identical tight-fitting outfit, Waterhouse played live shows before her role in Daisy Jones, an adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel of the same name. The book was partly inspired by the epic love story between Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey Buckingham. The series stars Riley Keough (Elvis Presley’s granddaughter) and Sam Claflin as dueling lead singers battling jealousy, addictions and a broken childhood. Waterhouse’s character, Karen Sirko, was loosely based on the English keyboardist and singer of the supergroup, the late Christine McVie.
To arrange for her role, Waterhouse was to take three months of intensive piano lessons. But with COVID-19-related breaks and starts, the period stretched to a yr and a half of three-hour classes and rehearsals at Sound City, Los Angeles’ legendary recording studio.
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“At first I used to be so terrible that I wrote kid’s rhymes, after which inside a yr I used to be writing Bach pieces,” she says. “Actually, without the pandemic, we might probably be a whole musical disaster. We had 12 songs to learn – studio and live versions – and rather a lot has modified. They really wanted us to be completely confident and play every note appropriately.”
Catchy melodies fill “Aurora”, a success record released by an imaginary group before they break up. Grammy-winning producer and guitarist Blake Mills co-wrote and produced original music with Phoebe Bridgers, Marcus Mumford, Jackson Brown, Taylor Goldsmith, Madison Cunningham and other friends. The result was so electrifying that an Atlantic Records backed real album was released on March 2 featuring songs sung by the forged. Inside hours, it reached primary on the US iTunes charts (a primary for a fictitious band), while the vinyl version won Amazon.
“I’m in heaven,” enthused one YouTube listener. “I NEED MORE,” pleaded one other.
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Filming The Six’s last sold-out show (at Tad Gormley Stadium in Recent Orleans, disguised as Soldier Field in Chicago) became an almost apocalyptic adventure.
“We’re all being tested, Sam gets COVID, and we have now to return a couple of days or per week,” recalls Waterhouse. “After which we return to the football stadium and we’re about to return on stage. And there is an enormous storm, and the stage starts to show over. We’re locked in our trailers, we will not move and there is lightning. There have been so many predictable moments.” But they finally managed to capture the adrenaline and power of the last show before the band announced their resignation.
Music has all the time been Waterhouse’s passion, and he kept diaries and wrote songs for years. But the cool girl from London – the daughter of the eminent plastic surgeon Norman Waterhouse and his wife Elizabeth, a cancer nurse – started off as a model. A number of years after she was discovered in the store, at the age of 16, she was named the face of Burberry’s “Brit Rhythm” fragrance and made the covers of magazines reminiscent of UK Elle, Tatler, L’Officiel and UK Vogue. Hailed as a millennial muse with tousled bangs, big eyebrows, an eclectic wardrobe and great childhood friends like Georgia May Jagger and Cara Delevingne, she had an easygoing personality and a cheeky smile that the camera loved.
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Known relationships only added to her charm. Then she dated English musician Miles Kane for 2 years met actor Bradley Cooper at an awards show when she was 21. Their two-year tumultuous romance was interrupted by an invite to a gala dinner at the White House — where she “looked like shit” due to a hilarious hair styling disaster — and glamorous performances at the Oscars, Screen Actors Guild Awards, MET Gala and London Fashion Week. After their painful partingshe was involved with actor Diego Luna, whom she met on the set of their film “The Bad Batch”.
For the last five years she’s strong with Robert Pattinson “Twilight” and “Batman” fame. The modest couple live together in London and Los Angeles and have been photographed kissing in parks or on night outs, but she is cautious about their romance.
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“There’s a lot to like about it, I’d sit here all day,” counters Waterhouse, who consists, thoughtful, and unfailingly kind in person. “We just support one another and that is the most vital thing.”
Just as Waterhouse’s acting profession took off in 2016 after her roles in “The Divergent Series: Insurgent” and “The Bad Batch”, she herself released the raw and vocally confessing single “Brutally”.
“It was sort of in the middle of this heartbroken, depressive phase of my life, and it was a time where I felt like every part was ending. It was the first song: the first big heartbreak, and the first time I felt I had written something I used to be willing to share, and the first song I released.”
“My twentysomething life was filled with no boundaries and suddenly becoming a public figure. In a way, it’s like a mini-trauma, especially while you’re so young.”
She cautiously released one track a yr and eventually gained the confidence to release a full-length album, which was released last May on Sub Pop. “It took me years to feel like I used to be able to make an album. It resulted from such an easy need to know what was happening around me and with the breakdown of relationships. Also, to be honest with myself, my early 20s were quite fraught with a scarcity of boundaries and suddenly becoming a public figure. In a way, it’s like a mini-trauma, especially while you’re so young. Principally, you left your parents’ house and came upon that you simply’re coping with so many things and also you haven’t got all the tools yet.
Alternately fragile, contemplative and brave, her album reflects the drama of a life unexpectedly lived in the highlight. The pathetic “Melrose Meltdown” captures the heartache of a broken relationship and references a scene that really happened on the Sunset Strip.
“I used to be in the middle of a breakup and left Chateau [Marmont hotel] with several hundred thousand diamonds that the security guard asked me to return,” Waterhouse explains wryly.
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In November, she continued her freshman yr efforts with the release of “Milk Teeth”, a six-song EP and a series of live shows in Europe and the UK.
Now that “Daisy Jones” has taken off, Waterhouse is back on the road playing her own music at Lollapalooza Festivals across South America. He’ll be back on the East Coast this spring with shows in Atlanta and the Gov Ball in Queens.
When he is not traveling the globe, Waterhouse just desires to experiment with nesting. “Free time is like selecting a couch with my boyfriend. The a part of my life that I actually enjoy now. I feel about what sheets I would like and select the photos I would like to border. Once I’m not working, I would like to devote all my time to creating my home feel like home.”
It looks like she might add a domestic goddess to her burgeoning resume.
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