![]() ![]() You're a musician and you're also on Euphoria, another project where the soundtrack is crucial. The music is such a huge part of this film. It was really just like a collaborative experience of us trusting him and him trusting us and him allowing us to just go as far as we wanted to go with everything. I feel like he puts a lot of trust into his process and into us. He would make sure he was out of sight so that while we were filming we didn't look and see, "Oh, there's Trey with a camera." It really allowed us to be in those moments and it felt really real just because of his style. Half the time we didn't even realize that he was there. He's very aware of what he's doing, but he does it in a way that isn't invasive to our process or the scene. What was the experience of doing that like?ĭemie: Everything with Trey in general felt really free. There's that opening sequence that features you and Kelvin in a car as the camera swings around. Had you hung out with him at all when your friend was living with him?ĭemie: Just for like a day or two, and then I got the audition shortly after that. That was new for me, but it was cool because I felt like it really connected us quickly which was so necessary for what we were about to jump into. We were playing like "getting to know you," "20 questions" games, which I've never done before for a project or, like, in life. We kind of went through questions.ĭemie: Exactly. ![]() I didn't know Kelvin at all and it's a really intense script and we'd have to be really vulnerable in front of each other. I knew I didn't have as much time because they had all been like hanging out and getting to know each other. They were probably a week or two out from actually starting. I was going over there to just see her and then I ended up meeting him there and then a couple of days later heard about the film. Thrillist: How did you and Kelvin go about building your relationship?Īlexa Demie: So Kelvin was actually living with a friend of mine. We sit down to discuss the new movie, portraying trauma on screen, and becoming a Halloween costume. When Demie enters a basement conference room in a New York hotel for our interview, I realize she's easily one of the most fashionable people I've ever spoken to or possibly even encountered, her look a funky spin on business attire, accented with tiny sunglasses. She's also emerging, along with a number of her Euphoria castmates, as a style icon, mixing old Hollywood bombshell sensibilities with Instagram-ready ensembles. ![]() Off-screen, Demi is a multihyphenate with budding careers in fashion and music in addition to acting. Waves - Shults' follow-up to his moody horror It Comes at Night - is an impressionistic story that follows Tyler's family as they grapple with his demons. In Waves, she's Alexis, the girlfriend of Kelvin Harrison Jr.'s Tyler, a kind soul, who finds her world in shambles as he spirals. On Euphoria, she's Maddy Perez, a high school provocateur in a tortured relationship with jock Nate. Both are stunningly shot, and wrestle with tough topics including drug use and abuse.ĭemie is the lead of neither piece, but she's also impossible to ignore, giving performances that simultaneously feel eye-popping and entirely naturalistic. Waves, Trey Edward Shults' film currently playing in limited release, and the HBO series Euphoria are both A24 projects with killer soundtracks that document the lives of teens today. ![]() The parallels between the two projects that have defined Alexa Demie's breakout year are striking. ![]()
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