Alexa Demie is not retiring from acting.
If you are wondering why this even needs to be said of a 35-year-old actress coming off the final season of TV’s buzziest show and the most high-profile gig of her career, then you have clearly not been paying attention to the more Euphoria-obsessed corners of the internet.
Since the start of this third season, a theory has circulated that Demie intends to stop acting entirely after the series wraps. The source, it turns out, was an unknown keyboard warrior who recirculated, without context, a 2020 episode of The A24 Podcast on which Demie complained to The Curse star Nathan Fielder about a period early in her career when it felt like all the good parts were going to white girls; she questioned whether there was space for Latina actresses in Hollywood, and whether she wanted to keep putting up with auditioning at all. Unbeknownst to Demie, who says she assiduously avoids her own headlines, rumors of her imminent industry exit started to gain traction. When I ask her about it, her first instinct is to mess with the fans who have expressed potential heartbreak. “Should we just ride with it?” she suggests with a grin.
Alexa Demie THR Cover
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