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And the Oscar goes to the winner. It's a tie.

And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know.

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I'm Katie Rich. What you just heard is our brand new intro music. I hope you love it as much as I do.

And I'm here for today's interview episode with Rebecca Ford.

Hi Katie.

Rebecca, you got to talk to Riley Kio, the star of Daisy Jones in the six, who was juggling a eight month old baby in the background who managed to not interrupt the interview, which is one of many accomplishments.

She's had over the past couple of months.

You're a big fan of this show and it seems like her performance is really one of the many standouts of it.

Yeah, this show was a really enjoyable watch, but I couldn't help thinking about how this person who is Elvis' granddaughter is playing a rock star.

And what that experience must have been like.

I mean, her singing is incredible in it.

And I was like, of course, she's Elvis' granddaughter, but she actually talks about how she had no singing experience and had to go to a vocal coach.

And that was like really the toughest part about this.

So I found that pretty surprising.

It's kind of cool that she's like leaning into this huge expectation she's had for her life this whole time.

And I think you guys talked about like she's never known what it was like not to be adjacent to fame her entire life.

And but she's really like claiming that power for herself lately, it seems.

Yeah, I think she, I mean, you must have had to think about it because you know those questions are going to come up when you take on a role like this.

And I think she's really, yeah, just sort of doing the thing she wants to do.

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