Riley Keough embraces the cold weather season with a moody new look.
The 34-year-old actress unveiled a jet-black hair makeover via Instagram on Thursday, November 3, ahead of the Virginia Film Festival.
Keough showed off the ‘do in a selfie, giving fans a close-up look at the midnight shade – which flatters her blue eyes. (Keough appeared at the Virginia Film Festival in support of her new film, War pony, which follows the stories of two young Oglala Lakota men growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation, according to IMDb. The film marked Keough’s directorial debut and premiered in July.)
Keough’s transformation comes after her years with warm red locks. She experimented with a different version of her crimson crown in the Prime Video series Daisy Jones and the Six.
The head of the show’s hair department, Mary Ann Henningsexclusively open to We weekly about Keough’s moon in March, talking about how this helped tell the story of the emerging band led by Keough’s Daisy Jones.
With Keough, Hennings decided to keep Daisy’s hair color consistent to convey a “this is who I am, take it or leave it” attitude.
“We went for that iconic, bright, beautiful red,” she said. Although the character was “a bit of a rough girl” in the beginning, rather than a punky black one, Hennings chose the ginger shade because it showed Daisy’s rebellious nature, “but gently.” According to Hennings, the long, red curls also made it easy to transform the character from an ingénue to a rock star, creating an “iconic” look.
Hennings revealed that too Us that the inspiration for the shadow and long, undone style was a rock legend Stevie Nicks. She used Clairol Natural Instincts Bold in the color Copper – to be specific – for those who want to copy Keough’s look at home.
Daisy Jones & The Six isn’t the only time Keough has played with color.
Keough famously rocked “bronze” hair in the 2020 film Zolawhich follows part-time stripper Zola (Taylor Paige), who is convinced by her new boyfriend Stefani ([Keough) to go on a chaotic road trip to Tampa to earn money.
The film is inspired by A’Ziah King’s viral Twitter thread from October 2015 about a memorable trip to Florida, which started with the sentence: “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch got into a fight over here?” It’s a bit long, but full of excitement.”
Besides Keough and Paige, the film also stars Nicholas Braun And Colman Domingo.