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'That was the hardest thing': Riley Keough on playing a prostitute two weeks after her Napa nuptials to Ben Smith-Petersen

Published: 13:54 EST, 6 April 2016 | Updated: 17:49 EST, 6 April 2016

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Riley Keough felt conflicted, in more ways than one, taking on her role as a prostitute in the Starz series, The Girlfriend Experience, premiering this Sunday.

The granddaughter of Elvis Presley - who turns 27 next month - began filming the racy show just two weeks after her Napa nuptials to Australian stuntman, Ben Smith-Petersen.

'We did have a two-week sort of [honeymoon] trip that we did. But that was the hardest thing. Do I really want to work right after I get married?' the Lovesong actress recalled to Wmagazine.com.

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No hair dryers on set? Riley Keough felt conflicted, in more ways than one, taking on her role as a prostitute in the Starz series, The Girlfriend Experience, premiering this Sunday

'But you can't, a lot of the time, pick the things you shoot unfortunately. And he's also in the same industry, and if it was him he would be working as well.'

The married couple of 14 months met in 2012 on the Namibian set of Mad Max: Fury Road, so Keough knew the SAG Award winner would be cool about her doing 'crazy sex' scenes.

'[Ben] is, like, very chilled out. He understands film. He works in the industry. He gets how it works and he's very, very cool. I'm lucky with that,' Riley - born Danielle - shrugged.

In the spin-off of Stephen Soderbergh's 2009 film, the California native replaces porn star Sasha Grey as New York call girl Christine Reade.

'Do I really want to work right after I get married?' The 26-year-old granddaughter of Elvis Presley began filming the racy show just two weeks after her Napa nuptials to Australian stuntman, Ben Smith-Petersen

The Lovesong actress recalled to Wmagazine.com: 'We did have a two-week sort of [honeymoon] trip that we did. But that was the hardest thing...you can't, a lot of the time, pick the things you shoot unfortunately'

'[Ben] is, like, very chilled out': The married couple of 14 months met in 2012 on the Namibian set of Mad Max: Fury Road, so Keough knew the SAG Award winner would be cool about her doing 'crazy sex' scenes

Implausibly, the Chicago-born escort still has time to hook between her studies as a second-year law student and internship at a high-profile law firm.

'[Casual sex] is not something I can relate to at all,' Riley admitted.

'I couldn't wrap my head around how you view sex that way. And in order to play something, for me, I don't want to play something if I don't understand it one hundred percent in some way.

'So I was apprehensive about that. "Can I really understand who this person is? And can I really get to a place where I can understand how you can feel that way?" So that was scary for me. And I didn't want to do it if I couldn't. But I did eventually get there.'

Transactional relationships: In the spin-off of Stephen Soderbergh's 2009 film, the California native replaces porn star Sasha Grey as New York call girl Christine Reade

Seriously? Implausibly, the Chicago-born escort still has time to hook between her studies as a second-year law student and internship at a high-profile law firm

After her research, the Dixieland star was surprised by the sheer number of actual GFE escorts there are lurking around older men in hotels and restaurants.

'Now I look around and I'm like, "They're everywhere,"' Keough marveled.

'It just opened my eyes to a completely different world of sex work. There are girls who are doing this, girls we spoke with who did it because they liked it. And a lot of them were retired and still saying, "I don't regret it, I loved my job."'

Riley admitted: 'I couldn't wrap my head around how you view sex that way... I don't want to play something if I don't understand it one hundred percent in some way...But I did eventually get there'

'Now I look around and I'm like, "They're everywhere!"' After her research, the Dixieland star was surprised by the sheer number of actual GFE escorts there are lurking around older men in hotels and restaurants