Caught in a sex, drugs and rock’n’roll love triangle, Camila Morrone is Camila Dunne in the Amazon Prime mockumentary adaptation of best-selling novel Daisy Jones and the Six. Through her character she embodies the voice of reason and emotional depth in a chaotic seventies era, whilst also capturing the crippling realities of band dynamics via her photographic lens. Off screen, she nourishes her multiculturalism travelling between LA and Buenos Aires, speaking Spanish, and hoping to explore the latin entertainment industry which she sees as an essential step in the next steps of her career.

Can you tell us a bit about Daisy Jones and the Six?

Daisy Jones and the Six is a story about love, friendship, dreams, hard work, music, difficulties of life, and all of its complications. It’s really special because it's set in a very specific era in the 1970s where the music scene in LA was really great. If you love period pieces, if you love music, if you love drama, you’ll love Daisy Jones.

Now plot wise, I want to get into the nitty gritty : why do you believe Camila still chooses Billy, after everything he does or doesn’t do for her?

It was something that I asked myself when I read the script and the book, and I think I struggled as an actor to justify Billy’s actions and Camila’s choices to stay and continue to give him chances. But life is complicated and life is messy, because nothing is linear, love isn’t linear. It takes a lot of courage to do what Camila did. To forgive, love and understand. I have a lot to learn from her.

What made you gravitate towards acting?

I feel like I have always been very emotional, and very connected to studying human interactions. I just had a desire to express myself and that turned out to be in the form of acting. Every actor has a lot to say and a lot of feelings that they’re dealing with so it’s an incredible outlet to perform a scene. It's cathartic.

Can you tell us a bit more about your other upcoming projects?

I have a project coming out called Gonzo Girl directed by Patricia Arquette starring Willem Daffoe that is based on the book by Hunter S Thompson, and is totally different to the other things I’ve done. Working with people at that level was the highlight of my career and I was a sponge absorbing as much as I could from these artists that have been around for a long time and have deep knowledge, for life, art and expression.

The film delves into very heavy topics, such as addiction as does Daisy and the Six. How do you prepare for roles that explore these intricate subjects?

Gonzo Girl was a bigger study into drugs and addiction, as my character is quite young and innocent when she starts the film and towards the end she does dabble quite heavily into drugs and I had to do a lot of research because I didn’t know much about that. On Daisy and the Six we were coached on what drug addiction and alcoholism looked like back then.

I’m really impressed that you explored the perception of alcoholism in the seventies, because back then it was not taken as seriously and there was not as much awareness about the disease as there is today.

Exactly, we all had the questions at the table read, like were people noticing Billy’s alcoholism? Were they noticing that he was spiralling? And I think that was a big question for my character : how much awareness was there around being an addict or being an alcoholic? The truth was that it wasn’t like it is today, the awareness around it, the treatment and support systems around alcoholics. Which is why I think Camila takes a second to catch on and see that Billy is really going through something and that it is getting out of hand.

The roles you play are all very varied. Out of the characters you played, which do you relate to the most?

I see myself in different ways in all the characters, I can relate to attributes of them whilst also learning from them. We’re all stuck on our morals and what we believe to be right, and then you play a character who has different morals and it starts to kind of bend and expand your brain and your judgement.

You grew up in Hollywood but have Argentinian roots- Have you ever thought of exploring acting or even music in Argentina- or just in the Hispanic entertainment industry?

There’s such incredible films and projects coming out of Latin America and I’m just waiting for the right thing to come up. That is essential in the next steps of my career, I really want to collaborate with Latin artists. There’s such an incredible world that I feel like I haven’t dipped my toe into and want to go after to broaden my horizons and experiences.

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Discover the full story in our upcoming SS23 WILDSIDE Issue - End March release.

Camila is wearing full CHANEL

Interview by Gabrielle Colas

Photography by Shane McCauley

Fashion director Carolina Orrico

Fashion by Jensen Edmondson

Casting by Imagemachine cs

Hair by Candice Birns

Make-Up by Kate Lee using Chanel