Riley Keough on Saturday gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the recording process of her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir.
Just days before the release of From Here to the Great Unknown, which was co-written by Keough, the Daisy Jones & The Six star, 35, shared a video of herself sitting in front of a microphone while reading from her upcoming book mother. memoirs.
“I want to not only honor my mother, but also tell a human story in what I know is an extraordinary circumstance,” Keough said while sitting in a recording booth.
She continued, “I am aware that the recordings my mother left behind are a gift. Often all that remains of a loved one is a saved and resaved voicemail, a short video on a phone, some favorite photos. I take the privilege of these ties very seriously.”
The actress then expressed her wish that “this book would be as intimate as all those hours” she spent in bed listening to her mother, “listening to the howls of coyotes.”
Riley Keough on Saturday gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the recording process of her late mother Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir
In the footage, the performer, Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen, wore a black pinstripe blazer over a button-down.
“The audiobook for FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN, narrated by me and @juliaroberts, will be available on October 8th,” she captioned the post, which was liked by thousands of people, including Reese Witherspoon.
Lisa Marie is the daughter of rock icon Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley.
She was also married to the King of Pop Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
Her highly anticipated memoir will be published by Pan MacMillan on October 8, 2024.
Presley asked Keough, whose father is Danny Keough, to help her write the memoir in 2022, shortly before her death.
It contains the late star’s unheard interviews.
Riley will also narrate part of the audiobook alongside film star Julia Roberts.
Just days before the release of From Here to the Great Unknown, co-written by Keough, the Daisy Jones & The Six star, 35, shared a video of herself reading from her mother’s upcoming memoir
“I want to not only honor my mother, but also tell a human story in what I know is an extraordinary circumstance,” Keough said while sitting in a recording booth.
The audiobook also includes never-before-heard selections from Lisa Marie’s tape recordings.
Lisa Marie died at the age of 54 from a small intestinal obstruction that developed after she underwent bariatric surgery several years earlier.
In the memoir, Lisa Marie addresses her love for Elvis and how much she struggled after his death, her romantic relationships, motherhood, the devastating death of her son Benjamin in 2020 and the birth of her granddaughter, Keough’s two-year-old daughter Tupelo. .
“What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done to complete it for her, is go beneath the idea of the magazine headline about her and reveal the core of who she was,” Keough said in a conversation with PEOPLE in September.
“To make her a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, outspoken, funny, traumatized, joyful, grieving – everything she was throughout her remarkable life,” she explained. .
“I want to give my mother a voice in a way that eluded her during her lifetime.”
Lisa Marie is the daughter of rock icon Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley; seen in 2010
Keough is hitting the road for a fall book tour in honor of her mother’s posthumous memoir.
According to Random House, she will be joined by a special guest in six different cities from October 9 to 20, including: New York, Memphis, St. Louis, Nashville, London and Los Angeles.