Dove Cameron is in the hot seat as ELLE asks her tough questions. Wasting no time, she shares the story behind the now-cancelled 'Powerpuff Girls' series, her resting b*tch face, and reveals the ‘Mamma Mia’ slip up she had in front of 20K people.
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00:00 The plot was, oh, did I sign an NDA?
00:03 I can't tell you.
00:05 You can ask me anything,
00:06 but I don't have to answer anything.
00:08 Hi, I am Dove Cameron,
00:10 and today I'm going to let Elle ask me anything.
00:13 Please look at how my hands are.
00:17 Why are they like this?
00:19 Ooh, you know, I actually met the celebrity
00:22 I was dying to meet, which was Guillermo del Toro.
00:25 Freaked out.
00:28 I was like, I think you're my hero.
00:30 I was like, you're my creative muse.
00:33 I was like, everything you touch, I feel so seen.
00:35 And he was like,
00:37 did you know that I live very close to where we are?
00:40 And I was like, no, I didn't.
00:41 And he was like, there's also a McDonald's nearby.
00:43 And I was like, oh.
00:45 And he was like, I hope you have a really good night.
00:47 I was like, if that's all I ever get from you,
00:51 I'll be, I'll die happy.
00:52 What's something people would be surprised to know about me?
00:55 I'm really sensitive.
00:56 I think a lot of people think I'm like really hard intensity,
01:00 but I think like the intensity is met
01:02 with an equal sensitivity that is like nearly debilitating.
01:06 I'm a lover.
01:07 I don't know.
01:09 Someone told me recently
01:11 that I have a really strong resting bitch face,
01:13 but I promise I don't mean it.
01:14 So like, if you ever see me mean mugging in public,
01:16 just know I'm like waiting for a hug.
01:17 I can't do it now.
01:20 I don't know.
01:23 [clears throat]
01:26 The first job I ever had was making cardboard boxes
01:35 for my parents' jewelry business.
01:38 And I got $2 an hour.
01:40 I would work with a tape gun.
01:42 So it was very intense.
01:45 You guys, it was not the safest job
01:48 for like a seven year old.
01:50 That's really hard because a lot of my tattoos
01:53 I got for people who passed.
01:56 I definitely love the one that I got
01:57 for my best friend, Cameron.
02:00 That one's really meaningful.
02:02 I most recently though, I got one for my dad.
02:05 I found my baby book that like I've avoided like the plague
02:08 for the last decade,
02:09 because I was just like,
02:10 I don't know if I'm ready to see his handwriting
02:12 and hear his like initial thoughts
02:15 about what he wants for my life.
02:16 And there was a line in there where he had quoted me
02:18 when I was like two years old saying to him,
02:21 "We'll be friends forever."
02:23 And I just thought how beautiful would that be
02:25 to have "We'll be friends forever" in his handwriting.
02:29 Forever, like right here.
02:31 'Cause you know, we will.
02:32 We'll be best friends forever.
02:34 Three beauty products I can't live without.
02:37 So I've been completely dependent on
02:40 and obsessed with the Shu Uemura Antioxy Oil Cleanser
02:44 since I was like 19 or something.
02:47 I love that Gucci mascara.
02:50 It's like got a little teeth to it.
02:52 I'm obsessed with that.
02:53 I use the like Benefit blush tint
02:56 that looks like a vial of blood
02:58 for my cheeks, tip of my nose and my lips.
03:02 And like, if you just throw that on a little mascara,
03:04 you're good to go.
03:05 A lot.
03:08 There's this song by "Does it Offend You, Yeah?"
03:11 called "With a Heavy Heart."
03:12 That goes crazy.
03:15 I have a playlist called "Absolutely Losing My Mind"
03:18 where I like start my morning with it
03:19 and it's like mind numbing.
03:21 Like you're standing next to the speaker
03:23 at the concert kind of bass.
03:26 I'm gonna go deaf one day.
03:27 I'm definitely gonna go deaf.
03:29 My most irrational fear,
03:31 I actually have an answer for this.
03:32 I have a debilitating fear of getting my blood drawn.
03:36 Like I had to go to the ER recently
03:40 for some kind of, you know, I like passed out.
03:43 I mean, everybody was very concerned
03:45 and they had to draw a bunch of my blood to do the tests
03:49 and then they had to give me an IV.
03:50 And I swear you guys, I was like, I'm 11 years old.
03:54 Like I couldn't stop crying.
03:55 I was shaking, shaking.
03:56 And I was shaking and crying so much to the point
03:59 that I also started laughing.
04:01 So there's all these videos of me like this,
04:03 being like, it's not funny.
04:04 The first time I felt like I made it.
04:08 I genuinely feel like I have small versions
04:10 of that all the time.
04:11 But I guess I don't know what even is making it.
04:13 Like, is it?
04:14 I mean, I guess "Boyfriend" was a huge moment for me.
04:17 That was really affirming for me
04:18 because it felt like it was about my relationship
04:21 with the world.
04:23 The most vulnerable track on "Alchemical"
04:25 is definitely "Fragile Things."
04:27 I wrote most of the first half of this album
04:29 about a breakup that was a really pivotal moment
04:33 for me in my life.
04:35 I say moment like it wasn't two years.
04:37 But it was, I spent about two years recovering
04:41 from the loss of this very important relationship.
04:45 But I think sometimes in life,
04:46 we have to acknowledge when something well
04:49 and truly surprises us and breaks our heart
04:52 and reminds us of how fragile we are.
04:54 And that's kind of where "Fragile Things" came from.
04:56 Oh, this really is "Ask Me Anything."
05:00 The plot was, oh, did I sign an NDA?
05:04 I can't tell you.
05:07 You can ask me anything,
05:08 but I don't have to answer anything.
05:10 Let me just say that what we shot, I loved.
05:14 And that was one of the most fun things.
05:16 And I think whatever you thought it was gonna be,
05:18 it wasn't gonna be that.
05:20 And it was very campy and very sexy and very fun.
05:23 And I loved Diablo Cody.
05:25 Ooh, what Disney Channel star was my favorite?
05:29 I think probably Raven was my favorite.
05:31 I didn't have Disney Channel growing up.
05:33 I didn't have cable,
05:35 but I could sneak away to my friend's houses and watch it.
05:38 So I knew what it was, but just barely, which sounds crazy.
05:41 It sounds like I'm making that up,
05:43 but we had four channels.
05:44 We had the local news, we had PBS,
05:47 UPN 11 before it was the CW.
05:50 Oh, not "Descendants."
05:54 I mean, "Ways to Be Wicked," I think smacks.
05:57 That song sounds so much like
05:58 "Die at Panic at the Disco" or something, right?
06:01 I think that song is kind of up my alley still.
06:04 But also "Space Between," it's so gay.
06:08 That's a love song for Evie and Mel, for sure.
06:12 I'm confirming it.
06:13 I think my regularly scheduled Sherlock,
06:17 like once a year binge was my last thing.
06:19 But I'm obsessed with baking shows.
06:22 Unhealthily, like "Can't Tear My Eyes Away."
06:25 Things with plot, I'm like, mm.
06:27 But baking shows, I'll sit there, I'll stay up all night.
06:30 No, sob, sob, sob, sob, sob.
06:33 "Great British Bake Off," there's like the chocolate one
06:36 with the French chocolatier.
06:38 I love that one.
06:39 They make sculptures out of chocolate
06:41 and then when it breaks, they cry and I cry.
06:43 I love it.
06:44 There's gotta be one.
06:47 Oh, I have one.
06:49 When I was doing "Mamma Mia" at the Hollywood Bowl,
06:52 I don't know if anybody knows this,
06:54 but those ABBA songs, they're repetitive.
06:57 They're repetitive, which means they're easy to memorize
07:01 and easier to [beep] up.
07:03 And everybody knows them, that's the other thing.
07:05 So when I was doing that,
07:06 ♪ Don't know how to fake it ♪
07:07 ♪ Don't know where to go ♪
07:10 ♪ My hoo-hoo, running low ♪
07:12 Which opens the second act.
07:14 Mind you, I just completely went up on the verse
07:17 and I sang the same verse three times in a row.
07:20 And I was like, fingers crossed
07:21 that everybody is so [beep] drunk right now.
07:23 But I was like, I'm gonna be crucified
07:25 'cause ABBA is national treasure level.
07:28 And if you could have been inside my brain in that moment,
07:30 that was, I was gonna [beep] pass out on that band.
07:33 [laughs]
07:35 Thanks for hanging out with me and Elle today.
07:36 Check out my new album, Elle Chemical, out December 1st.
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