Warning: The next comprises spoilers for Daisy Jones & the Six Episode 7. Proceed at your personal danger!
The seventh episode of Daisy Jones & the Six (streaming now on Prime Video) had an sudden shining star in newcomer Nabiyah Be’s character Simone Jackson.
As Daisy’s greatest pal and a rising disco legend, Simone had a complete episode devoted to her life aside from Riley Keough’s titular singer/songwriter. This seemingly stunned many viewers of the present who additionally learn Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel, as Simone’s character didn’t have as giant of a task within the e book.
Will Graham, co-showrunner and Episode 7’s director, admitted to TVLine that Simone’s expanded presence was one thing that had been within the works for the reason that starting of the book-to-TV adaptation.
“I feel it goes again to the very first dialog that I had with [executive producer] Lauren [Neustadter] and [co-showrunner] Scott [Neustadter], which accurately looks like 20 million years in the past now, and saying, ‘We wish to see the total lifetime of this character,’” Graham remembers. “And in our first dialog with Taylor, too, we mentioned type of, ‘What are you probably the most excited to see within the adaptation that you simply didn’t get to do within the e book?’ and she or he was similar to, ‘Simone.’”
This episode not solely explored Simone discovering her sound on the planet of disco, nevertheless it additionally showcased her sexual id as a queer Black lady in a time when it was tough to exist as such.
“We wished to be sure that she was proudly owning her personal story [as] a Black lady who was additionally an innovator, and ensuring that she wasn’t somebody who was simply trying to make generic music,” Be says.
With all the things that she was given to play within the hour, Be was most excited to dig into Simone’s “romantic relationship, the rising into comfortability within the membership scenes, into totally understanding that she will each be herself, be truthful, and have a few of the reward and a focus that she craves,” the actress shares.
Throughout the episode, Simone traveled to New York Metropolis, hoping to get a contemporary begin. Upon her arrival, she sought out Bernie (performed by Ayesha Harris), a DJ that she met at a celebration up to now. Inside seconds of their reunion, Bernie performed Simone’s music at a disco membership and had her sing it dwell, which the group completely loved. For presumably the primary time within the season, viewers noticed Simone get the hype she deserved.
Making the sequence much more particular was the truth that “all of the disco scenes [were] truly shot in Athens, with a forged of extras of predominantly actual queer African immigrants who didn’t have a membership to go to,” Graham reveals. “So the story type of grew to become the best way that we have been telling it, too, and as a queer individual, it was simply such a privilege to get to be a part of bringing that story to the display screen, as a result of we actually haven’t seen it.”
Within the episode, Simone grew to become extra snug performing, however she was nonetheless hesitant in being open about her relationship with Bernie. Regardless of the success she was attaining, Simone was nonetheless keen to drop all of it for Daisy, in a heartbeat. After receiving a cryptic message from Daisy, Simone fled to Greece, pondering that her pal was in bother.
She and Bernie arrived in Greece solely to discover a blissful, giddy and newly engaged Daisy, who simply wished her greatest pal at her impending wedding ceremony. Though Daisy appeared genuinely comfortable, Simone noticed straight by the façade. She tried to persuade Daisy to return to the band, however Daisy was reluctant due to what occurred between her and Billy. Simone tried to snap her out of it by reminding her who she actually was, regardless of her new husband Nicky’s makes an attempt to vary her.
Nicky tried to persuade Daisy that Simone was not protecting of her, however somewhat that Simone was in love along with her. Whether or not or not Daisy believed that is unknown, however she used Nicky’s phrases in opposition to Simone, which actually upset her. A fed-up Simone gathered her issues and left, however not with out giving Daisy her remaining two cents.
“I do love you, Daisy, and I’ll inform you what love is, since you clearly haven’t any f–king clue. It’s when somebody tells you the reality, even while you don’t wish to hear it. I like you, Daisy, so I’ll inform you the reality: You’re a actual egocentric bitch,” Simone mentioned.
Whereas Episode 7 dove into facets of Simone’s character that weren’t mentioned within the e book, it solely scratched the floor.
“I feel you could possibly do a complete different present about Simone. I cherished what they did along with her character,” Reid raves.
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(With reporting by Vlada Gelman)
