Spoilers forward for Daisy Jones & The Six. In Daisy Jones & The Six’s seventh episode, Riley Keough’s character will get married — and now followers could also be questioning who Keough is married to IRL? The reply: Ben Smith-Petersen, who had a cameo throughout Episode 2 as a part of a intercourse scene together with his real-life spouse. She revealed on Late Night time With Seth Meyers that “the cameo took place as a result of I’ve to have intercourse with a random individual within the present, and the producers have been like, ‘It might be so humorous if it was your husband.’”
Keough, who performs the titular character, admitted that it was extra awkward than she had anticipated to have her husband as her scene associate. “I feel [the producers] have been considering it might be much less awkward, after which we obtained there and so they’re like, ‘That is actually uncomfortable.’
“For one, I’ve by no means had faux intercourse with my husband,” she stated. “And for 2, you recognize, usually, usually, once you do this stuff and it’s any individual coming in for the day, you’re like, ‘Whats up, good to fulfill you,’ and also you sort of get all the way down to enterprise and it’s very skilled. However with him, it was simply, like, actually … We have been simply laughing the entire time.”
Keough defined that her character was “probably not having fun with” it. “I actually saved feeling inclined to be like, ‘In actual life, it’s not like this.’ And I used to be like, ‘I’ll simply hold that to myself,’” she stated.
Awkward Daisy Jones cameo apart, Smith-Petersen and Keough have a love story that began in present enterprise. The Australia native is a stuntman and has appeared in movies like Suicide Squad, The Starvation Video games: Catching Fireplace, and The Nice Gatsby. He additionally acted in Spark and Mild, which Keough appeared in. They met whereas filming Mad Max: Fury Street, and obtained engaged in August 2014. The couple tied the knot the next 12 months, twice — their first marriage ceremony was in Nepal the place they have been constructing a faculty collectively. Weeks later, they obtained married in Napa, Calif.
She informed USA Right this moment in 2016 in regards to the spark she had for him early of their relationship. “Two weeks into relationship him, we have been at a gasoline station and I used to be like, ‘I might see myself having youngsters with this individual.’ It was sort of like I knew I used to be assembly my husband.”
Years later, the sentiment hadn’t modified. “My husband is such a superb individual,” Keough wrote in a 2022 essay for Vogue Australia. “He’s calm and constant and powerful and delicate. He’s my greatest pal.” Within the essay, she recounted the early days of their relationship, revealing that they obtained matching tattoos the third time they frolicked. “All the pieces is thrilling to me, with him,” she concluded within the private essay. “Each day is thrilling once you’re along with your soulmate.”
In January 2023, Smith-Petersen revealed that he and Keough have been the dad and mom of a child lady, born in 2022. Particulars on the precise birthdate and identify have but to be revealed.