14-year-old Demi Singleton opens up about what it's like to play a young serenawilliams in her new film, 'King Richard.'
Demi Singleton was born to perform. Born in New Orleans and raised in New York, she started dancing when she was just three years old. At seven, she started to train her voice professionally to become a singer. Then, at nine, she began auditioning as an actress. “I’ve always known that I wanted to perform,” she told. “It’s something that I’ve loved for as long as I can remember.”
The discipline the actress learned from her instrument lessons and performing almost every night on Broadway in 2015 worked in her favor when she was cast as young Serena Williams in, the biopic focused on the Williams sisters and their father Richard Williams as they arrived at tennis superstardom in the mid-90s. “A big reason as to why I was able to successfully be like Serena was because I’ve been training my entire life, so it wasn’t hard to get into that training mode,” Singleton said.
Singleton said that during the filmmaking process, she met the athletes just once, but it was enough to give her the boost of courage she needed to portray one of the greatest living athletes on the planet in. “I was shaking! Olympia was there, too, and we were singing ‘Baby Shark’ with her,” she remembered. “We realized there was nothing to be nervous about. Venus and Serena are so kind and very loving people.
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