High tea with the breakout star ofWavesandEuphoria.
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The psychic said shed be fine.
Better than fine, actually.
So I was like, Okay!
she laughs, recounting the session over tea.
She plays Maddy, the seriessCasino-obsessed cheerleader whose eye makeup has launched a couple hundred Instagram fan accounts.
I expressed that to Sam [Levinson, the shows creator] and he wrote it into my character.
Careful, she cautions.
Im pouring a cup of tea and failing spectacularly at it.
Her glamorously manicured fingers gently take the teapot from my hands.
Just let me do it.
High tea was her idea.
Its a treat she makes time for whenever shes traveling, or even at home in Los Angeles.
Growing up, shed go with her mom when they felt like doing something ritzy.
I dont want you to burn yourself!
If you want honey, I recommend it, or if you dont we shouldnt have sugar.
Im in Florida, Demie says.
Demie only had a week when she was cast last summer.
Shults, she says, is egoless.
Its a love that oscillates between tender and toxic.
They whisper secrets on the beach and have screaming matches in the street.
Because you dont know any better in high school.
A lot of us dont know any better.
Sometimes it errs into Instagram-filtered angst, but mostlyWaveswears its heart on the sleeve of its Nike hoodie.
Their trip to Planned Parenthood ends early when she decides against terminating the pregnancy.
She demands that he slam the brakes and let her out, right then and there.
Im not telling anyone, Have your baby; dont abort.
Demie was raised by a young, single mother.
She dedicated it to me, and she told me the moment she chose to keep me.
And it was on her way to abort.
Demie sees a healer in L.A., too, and they work on her relationship with her mom.
At times, their relationship has been more sister-to-sister than mother-daughter, fraught in ways she doesnt specify.
Im not like,I cant stand you anymore!You know what I mean?
I understand where shes coming from.
Earlier this year, reviews out of Telluride Film Festival crownedWavesA24slatest masterpiece.
(Critics in Toronto were a littleless effusive, but warmed to the movie nonetheless.)
Demies mom hasnt seen it yet, but the actress is hoping for a visceral reaction.
Shes definitely excited and proud of me, Demie says.
She takes another sip of tea, and smiles.
Shes gonna at least cry, right?
