On Thursday, singer LeAnn Rimes, who makes a cameo as herself in the new Steven Soderbergh movie Logan Lucky, joined me onstage at AOL Build to talk about the hilarious heist movie, her love of music, her enviable laid-back style, and her fitness regimen.

“I’m committed to it because I like to eat,” Rimes said of her focus on exercise. “I love food, and so I do workout.”
Rimes who is often on the road for work — she has two tours in 2017 alone — shared some details about how she stays in shape, even while living out of a suitcase. “I take a jump rope with me everywhere, which is really easy to do, even if I can get in, like, 15 to 20 minutes of jumping rope,” she said.

“I love to box,” she added. “I get really bored quickly when it comes to working out. I’m like, ‘This is boring, I’m over it,’ so I try to do a little bit of everything — yoga, Pilates.”

She did note, however, that there is one form of exercise that she’s definitely not here for. “I’m not a big runner,” she said. “It makes me angry. I ran for three years, and I think it was just because I liked what it did to my body. But then I realized one day: This is making me really angry. So running is something that I try to stay away from. But other than that I try to get into everything.”

If you follow Rimes on social media, you’ve likely seen her hashtag workout series #TightTushTuesday. “It’s caught on,” she said of the hashtag. “I mean, I was doing that on the Today show this morning. Followers have also likely seen how ridiculously strong the star’s cutoff shorts game is. “Oh, I didn’t know that,” she said with a laugh after being called the “queen of cutoffs.”

In addition to having a stylist friend who makes many of the shorts for her, Rimes had a few brands to recommend for those wanting to cop her style. “Have you heard of Re/Done? They take old jeans and shorts and things and redo them,” Rimes said. “Some of my other favorite shorts are One Teaspoon,” she added. “#QueenofCutoffs.

As for Logan Lucky, the film is currently in theaters and features the song “Love Is Love Is Love” off of Rimes’s new album Remnants, as well as a cameo of Rimes singing “America the Beautiful.”

'Logan Lucky' star Riley Keough talks affinity for South and Presley roots

growing number of rural and/or Southern women she’s played in recent years.

“A lot of my family is Southern. My mom is from the South. So I know that world very well. I feel close to it,” Keough, 28, told Yahoo Movies at the press day for Steven Soderbergh‘s new comedic heist film, Logan Lucky. Keough’s mother, in case you didn’t know, is Lisa Marie Presley, and Keough is the oldest grandchild of Elvis and Priscilla.

The heartland’s place in her heart, whether by design or not, has shone through in the rising star’s role selection. After making her film debut with a small part in The Runaways (2010), Keough attracted notice for playing a Florida stripper in Magic Mike (2012). She played another exotic dancer, this one in Mississippi, in the 2015 drama Dixieland before earning raves (and Independent Spirit Award nomination) as the uncompromising Queen Bee of a nomadic group of magazine-slinging runaways south of the Mason-Dixon in American Honey (2016). And earlier this year she was half of an enigmatic couple surviving a plague in the backwoods in It Comes at Night.

Logan Lucky, though, might be her most down-home role yet. Keough plays Mellie Logan, the hairdressing, fake-nail-sporting, Camaro-driving West Virginian who — when not prepping her young niece to be the next Honey Boo Boo — helps her ne’er-do-well brothers (Channing Tatum and Adam Driver) hatch a scheme to rip off a NASCAR race.

The film is directed by West Virginia native Soderbergh, the revered (and definitely not retired) filmmaker behind sex, lies and videotape, Out of Sight, and Ocean’s 11. It was Soderbergh who gave Keough one of her first breaks in Hollywood, casting her in Magic Mike (though she playfully gripes about the number of her scenes he cut) and subsequently making her the lead in TV’s The Girlfriend Experience. “I was nervous [to work on Magic Mike] but to work with Steven I felt so lucky to be there,” Keough said. “He’s just given me so many things in my life.”

Logan Lucky is written by Rebecca Blunt — or so she’s credited. The screenwriter’s actual identity is a mystery, although Tatum, Driver and costar Daniel Craig all said they emailed with Blunt during production, and speculation has centered on Soderbergh’s TV-host wife, Jules Asner. “She’s an amazing writer,” Keough said coyly when asked about Blunt, adding that they exchanged emails as well. “I don’t know [why they’re keeping her identity a secret]. But I asked her some questions about specifics and little nuances about West Virginia and that was kind of it. She knew what she was doing.”

Riley Keough was born and raised in Los Angeles, but there’s no doubt she feels a kinship with the