Sam Claflin has revealed that forged of Daisy Jones & the Six have been set to carry out on the 2023 MTV Film & TV Awards earlier than the reside present was scrapped because of the writers’ strike.
The 2023 miniseries adopted a fictional ’70s rock band of the identical identify, with the Peaky Blinders actor taking part in musician Billy Dunne alongside Riley Keough and Suki Waterhouse as his bandmates.
Ever because the collection was launched, followers have been clamouring for a second season, or for the actors to go on a reside tour.
Claflin has now revealed to Metro.co.uk that they’d “preliminary conversations” about performing reside collectively and have been planning to take action on the annual awards present earlier than the in-person ceremony was scrapped and changed by a pre-recorded digital one.
“We had the chance of taking part in on the MTV Film Awards, which we rehearsed for,” he shared. “We have been rehearsing, and I believe it was the day earlier than the MTV Film Awards, the writers’ strike occurred, so a great deal of actors and acts have been pulling out in solidarity with the writers. We have been suggested to do the identical, so we reluctantly agreed to drag out.”
The Starvation Video games: Catching Hearth star famous that by the point the writers’ and actors’ strikes got here to an finish in November 2023, they felt like “an excessive amount of time had handed”.
He defined that whereas they have been thinking about a tour, it was “proving tough” to align the schedules of all six members of the band.
Nevertheless, the British actor “would love” to reunite together with his co-stars for a second collection. He even met with Keough and the e-book’s writer, Taylor Jenkins Reid, in Los Angeles in November to try to “suppose up methods” to make one other outing work.
“We do not need to rush something if there was to ever be something. However all I do know is the need is there throughout the board,” he added.
Daisy Jones & the Six was nominated for 3 prizes on the 2023 MTV Film & TV Awards however got here away empty-handed.
That was the latest ceremony, because the 2024 and 2025 editions didn’t happen.