'She really likes sex': Elvis's actress granddaughter Riley Keough raves about new call girl role in TV drama... and reveals she's not fazed by nude scenes
Riley Keough confesses she's really kind of laid back when it comes to sex and nudity.
The eldest granddaughter of Elvis Presley headlines the new Starz series The Girlfriend Experience and told Nylon she had no qualms about stripping off for the part of a college student turned call girl.
'I don’t have a weird button on nudity really. I guess I’m a bit hippie in that sense,' the 26-year-old said. 'You kind of know what you’re signing up for when you’re doing a show about a sex worker.'
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Laid back: Riley Keough, 26, said she has a 'hippie' approach to sex and nudity as she promotes her role as call girl in the Straz TV drama The Girlfriend Experience in an interview with Nylon magazine
Riley, the daughter of the Elvis's only child Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough, plays the lead in the drama based on a Steven Soderbergh movie of the same name.
The actress, who had a part in blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road, was drawn to it, she said, because the character challenged the usual perceptions about women.
'She’s selfish and controlling, and she really likes sex. She’s not a character you often see written for a woman as a lead, and you’re kind of put off by it, because women are supposed to be super wholesome and moral or whatever,' she said.
Then added: 'That’s why I liked it.'
Famous genes: The eldest granddaughter of Elvis Presley is forging a Hollywood career as an actress and model
Challenging part: Riley said she was attracted to the call girl role becuase the character is a selfish and controlling woman who really likes sex
On fire: The striking brunette showed off her model figure as she posed for a series of portraits to accompany her magazine interview
Riley started her acting career in 2010 with a small part in Hollywood movie The Runaways and a role in 2011 in The Good Doctor opposite Orlando Bloom.
She explained: 'I wanted to grow up before I started acting. I wanted to live my life a bit. I also really don’t like attention on me, so it was kind of coming to terms with all of that.'
Lineage: The 26-year-old is the daughter of Elvis's only child Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough
Mature: She said she doesn't really like having attention focused on her and waited to 'grow up' before embarking on an acting career
It was on the location set of Mad Max: Fury Road that Riley met her husband Ben Smith-Petersen, a stuntman.
'Ben and I started hanging out, and then we started dating. Then I imported him,' she explained.
She was previously briefly engaged in 2012 to English model and actor Alex Pettyfer who she met while making the film Magic Mike.
Riley and Ben tied the knot a year ago at a ceremony in Napa, California, but the actress insisted she knew right away that he was the one she wanted to be with.
'We were together eight months and then we got engaged. But I think I told him I wanted to marry him after a week.'
'I just had a moment. I don’t over-intellectualize it because it just kind of happened, and I went with my gut there. We both had the same reaction, like, ‘OK, cool.’'
Happily married: Riley celebrated her one year wedding anniversary to stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen on February 4. the couple, pictured in LA in January, met on the location set of Mad Max: Fury Road
Close: Riley credited her mom Lisa Marie with protecting her from the dark side of growing up famous in Los Angeles. The two are pictured together at a Hollywood event in April 2012
As for being the granddaughter of Elvis, Riley has taken it in her stride.
She credits her mom Lisa Marie for protecting her from the more negative aspects that came with her heritage.
'She was like, ‘I don’t want you growing up like another Hollywood celebrity daughter.’ She was so not about that life, you know?' Riley said.
'She didn’t really put attention on it. It was there. We’d get photographed doing stuff, but I didn’t see a tabloid until I was 15.'
Front and center: Riley is featured on the cover of the March issue of Nylon magazine
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3440897/Elvis-s-actress-granddaughter-Riley-Keough-raves-new-call-girl-role-TV-drama-reveals-s-not-fazed-nude-scenes.html#ixzz3zoNAClOM
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