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The Business

‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ co-creator talks career, making the limited series

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“Daisy Jones & The Six” co-writer and co-creator Scott Neustadter talks about his early career, writing book adaptations, and the making of the sprawling rock ‘n’ roll limited series for Amazon. First, Kim Masters and Matt Belloni look into Disney’s announcement of a LGBTQ+ summit in Florida in September. Is Disney’s CEO Bob Iger clapping back at Governor Ron DeSantis?

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:05.3

When showrunner Scott Neustetter first met with Riley Keough about playing the lead in Amazon's rock and roll series, Daisy Jones and the Six, he got a warning he didn't expect from Elvis Presley's granddaughter.

0:17.4

She said to us from our first meeting, like, you just have to know about me that I'm not musical.

0:21.8

And we were like, well, you're going to have to be a little musical. Do you have any musical talents?

0:27.3

And she said, I really don't know that I do. All I do is sing in the shower or the car, and I don't think it sounds great.

0:32.7

Fortunately for Newsdetter's show, it started to sound a lot better after some coaching.

0:38.7

The Daisy Jones and the sixth writer and executive producer recalls his early days as a script reader at Robert De Niro's

0:44.3

Tribeca Productions. And he explains why he tends to lean toward adapting material after getting

0:50.2

his break with the highly original and he thought maybe two personal 2009 film 500

0:56.2

days of summer. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by

1:04.4

Matt Bellany, my co-pilot and banter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. As you know, there has been something

1:10.3

of a spat going on between Disney and Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida,

1:15.6

who has not declared a run for president, but is just, you know, going all over the country.

1:20.5

He has passed legislation in Florida, commonly known as Don't Say Gay.

1:25.3

Disney, initially, when Bob Chapic was still CEO, came out and said,

1:29.6

we're not going to take a position on this. Then almost the entire staff came out, furious.

1:34.9

There are a lot of progressives on the Disney staff, and of course, a lot of LGBTQ people.

1:40.1

Under pressure, Chapik then flip-flopped. DeSantis came back at him and was threatening to be very punitive of Disney and took away their special tax status they had, although he didn't totally take it away, put a board overseeing this district with a lot of people who think like him on it. I think one guy actually thinks that drinking water, tap water turns people gay. I mean, this is right after

2:02.4

Ron DeSantis's heart. And Bob Eiger had meanwhile tweeted his support for President Biden's position,

2:08.6

which was against the don't say gay law. And at that point, Chepic had to do a 180 and said he

2:14.5

opposed the don't say gay law and DeS rode down on him and it's been like that

2:19.3

and now bob eiger is back in the chair and disney has just announced that they are going to host a major

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