Sam Claflin Kicked Off His Daisy Jones & The Six Audition With Moonshine – Looper

If you’re recreating the highs and lows of a rock band in the 1970s, it goes without saying that drugs and alcohol will be involved. That said, Sam Claflin and Riley Keough didn’t anticipate real alcohol making its way behind the scenes.

In an interview with Steve Varley, Sam Claflin and Riley Keough recalled the audition process for “Daisy Jones & The Six.” “I’m not a very big drinker,” Keough said between giggles, “and Tony Berg, who is one of the producers of the music, came up to me with a shot of whiskey and it was, like, 10 in the morning. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t take a shot at 10 in the morning, that’s outrageous.’ So I politely sort of, like, sipped it. Oh! And actually before my audition — “

Here, Claflin interrupted his co-star to ask, “Did you have the moonshine?” The pair smiled guiltily at one another, as she clearly had no idea what he was talking about. Claflin explained, “[Music supervisor] Frankie [Pine] forced me to have moonshine before the audition.” “That is so hardcore,” replied Keough. Claflin, who was born and raised in England, wasn’t familiar with the boozy southern staple.”It was so rock ‘n’ roll,” he said. “I didn’t even know it was a real drink.”

“I wanted to really try to create a sense that this is a real band,” Pine, who worked to forge camaraderie in the band, told The New York Times. “When you’re a real band, you hang out together, you eat together, you drink together.” Apparently, one of those drinks was moonshine.