Ariana DeBose Sings Tangled, Talks Being Called 'Cringe' & An Embarrassing Celeb Moment | Pop Quiz | Marie Claire
Ariana DeBose gets real in a game of Pop Quiz. The Oscar-winner shares the embarrassing thing she did when she met Morgan Freeman, the last text she sent, why she hates the word cringe and more.
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00:00 Yeah, I'm really getting the hang of this!
00:03 Ha!
00:04 I am your father.
00:06 [laughs]
00:08 Moo, moo.
00:10 [laughs]
00:11 What's up? I'm Ariana DeBose,
00:13 and I'm playing Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.
00:17 [laughs]
00:20 Great.
00:22 Woo!
00:23 What is the best gift you've ever received?
00:27 My bestie, John, gave me t-shirts that
00:30 sort of reflect an inside joke, like,
00:32 "Take me to this apples and bees place."
00:34 It's a line from the prom musical.
00:36 And I realize that's more of an inside joke,
00:39 and it's very hard to explain, so I shall move on.
00:41 [laughs]
00:43 [blows raspberry]
00:44 Every time. Every time.
00:47 Last text you sent?
00:49 I think I said, "Okay, my dude."
00:52 [laughs]
00:53 Who did I send it to? My assistant.
00:55 Another one?
00:57 [blows raspberry]
00:58 [laughs]
00:59 It's just really absurd.
01:02 Word your friends would use to describe you?
01:05 Muppet.
01:07 [blows raspberry]
01:08 [laughs]
01:09 It's kind of fun and cathartic.
01:11 Last song that got stuck in your head?
01:14 Oh, I was singing it earlier today.
01:16 It's from "Tangled," which is silly,
01:18 'cause I haven't watched that movie in a very long time.
01:21 [sings "Tangled" theme]
01:23 Uh-huh.
01:25 ♪ Sweep the floors and they're all clean ♪
01:27 I know. It's so bad. I got nothing.
01:29 [blows raspberry]
01:32 What word makes you cringe?
01:34 Well, "cringe" makes me cringe,
01:36 especially because I've been described as cringe before,
01:39 so that's been fun.
01:41 And also "moist."
01:43 [gasps]
01:44 There's something about it.
01:45 Like, it really...
01:46 Whoo! Moist.
01:48 [blows raspberry]
01:52 Last book you read?
01:54 "I Have Something to Tell You" by Chastin Buttigieg.
01:58 Intended for, like, young queer people.
02:01 Great book. Check it out.
02:02 [blows raspberry]
02:03 Getting the hang of it. It's kind of fun.
02:06 Favorite dance move?
02:08 I mean...
02:10 I don't even know what that's called, but...
02:13 a snake?
02:15 I listen to a lot of '70s music,
02:16 so kind of anything you would do to, like, Donna Summer music.
02:21 ♪ I feel love ♪
02:26 [blows raspberry]
02:27 Hi-yah!
02:29 How did you make your first dollar?
02:31 My first dollar was made when I was a baby, actually.
02:35 I won the Ivory Baby Contest.
02:38 So I made my first dollar off of my cuteness.
02:41 [blows raspberry]
02:42 Yeah! I'm really getting the hang of this!
02:45 Ha!
02:46 Guilty pleasure watch?
02:48 I love 1400s, 1500s TV shows.
02:54 "The Medici."
02:55 I love "Shadow and Bone,"
02:57 which is technically a young adult television show,
03:00 but I don't know, I like fantasy.
03:03 [laughs]
03:04 Wow!
03:06 Do you have any secret talents?
03:08 I have what I call a gremlin voice,
03:11 or, like, a Darth Vader voice.
03:13 I am your father.
03:15 [growls]
03:16 Maybe it's more of a gremlin, but, like, that's kind of cool.
03:19 I hope I'm not alienating people, but...
03:23 It's true.
03:25 Just whip it out sometimes and get people to back up, you know?
03:30 [snorts]
03:31 Anyways, no.
03:32 Wow, tough crowd.
03:33 [thuds]
03:34 Go-to late-night snacks?
03:36 Oreos and peanut butter.
03:38 Should be celery and peanut butter, but it's not.
03:41 Oreos, delicious.
03:43 My favorite.
03:45 And red wine.
03:47 [laughs]
03:50 What makes you feel most powerful and confident?
03:53 I feel most powerful when I can get up in front of people
03:56 and know exactly what I'm talking about,
03:58 speak from my heart.
04:00 I have to get up and speak in front of people frequently these days,
04:03 so that's a new--kind of a new skill.
04:05 Because I'm an actor, I speak as a character often,
04:09 but speaking as myself, I feel very powerful and quite confident.
04:13 When I'm feeling my best, I am prepared, and people listen.
04:18 People should listen in general, not just to me, but to each other.
04:22 [thuds]
04:23 Yah, rock on.
04:25 What should every woman try at least once in their life?
04:29 Who am I to tell a woman what they should do?
04:31 Do what you [bleep] want, how about that?
04:33 For themselves.
04:34 That's what they should do.
04:35 Even if it's just a day, an hour, that's what you should do.
04:38 [thuds]
04:40 Ooh, look at all these stars and stripes.
04:45 I like stars.
04:47 Most starstruck moment?
04:49 Meeting Morgan Freeman.
04:51 I was very starstruck, so much so that I spelled my name for him.
04:56 Ariana. A-R-I-A-N-A.
04:59 One N.
05:00 That's something I did.
05:02 [thuds]
05:03 [laughs]
05:05 What advice would you give your younger self?
05:08 You know, I would tell my younger self to keep going.
05:13 It's okay that you're weird, and your empathy and your gut intuition is your superpower.
05:20 Follow those things.
05:22 Yah.
05:23 It's gonna be all right, little girl.
05:25 That's also what I tell her.
05:26 It's gonna be okay.
05:28 Last one.
05:29 You ready?
05:30 I'm not.
05:31 [thuds]
05:32 [laughs]
05:33 It's just so powerful.
05:34 So powerful.
05:35 Number one thing on your bucket list?
05:39 I have so many things on my bucket list.
05:41 But, you know, I don't prioritize rest.
05:45 So, number one thing on my bucket list is to go on a really great vacation
05:49 where I get to simply relax, go for a swim, maybe do some yoga.
05:55 I know, boring.
05:56 I don't want to jump out of a plane.
05:58 No desire.
05:59 I have no desire to be in a hot air balloon.
06:02 There's enough hot air in the world.
06:04 I'm good.
06:05 But I would love to take a vacation.
06:08 I think that's it.
06:09 No more balloons left.
06:11 Thank you for joining me, Ariana DeBose, as I played Pop Quiz with Mary Claire.
06:17 [clicks tongue]
06:18 [silence]