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 I am your father.
00:06 What's up? I'm Ariana DeBose and I'm playing Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.
00:17 Great.
00:22 What is the best gift you've ever received?
00:27 My bestie, John, gave me t-shirts that sort of reflect an inside joke.
00:32 Like, "Take me to the Zapples and Bees place." It's a line from the prom musical.
00:36 And I realize that's more of an inside joke and it's very hard to explain, so I shall move on.
00:41 Every time. Every time.
00:46 Last text you sent?
00:49 I think I said, "Okay, my dude."
00:51 Who did I send it to? My assistant.
00:56 Another one?
00:57 It's just really absurd.
01:02 Word your friends would use to describe you?
01:05 Muppet.
01:07 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. It's from Tangled, which is silly because I haven't watched that movie in a very long time.
01:25 Sweep the floors and they're all clean.
01:27 I know, it's so bad. I got nothing.
01:30 What word makes you cringe?
01:34 Well, cringe makes me cringe. Especially because I've been described as cringe before, so that's been fun.
01:40 And also moist.
01:43 There's something about it. Like, it really...
01:46 Woo! Moist.
01:53 Last book you read?
01:55 I Have Something to Tell You by Chastin Buttigieg.
01:58 Intended for young queer people.
02:01 Great book. Check it out.
02:03 Getting the hang of it. It's kind of fun.
02:06 Favorite dance move?
02:08 I mean, I don't even know what that's called, but...
02:12 Snake?
02:14 I listen to a lot of 70s music, so kind of anything you would do to Donna Summer music.
02:22 ♪ I feel love ♪
02:25 How did you make your first dollar?
02:31 My first dollar was made when I was a baby, actually. I won the Ivory Baby Contest.
02:38 So I made my first dollar off of my cuteness.
02:41 Yeah! I'm really getting the hang of this!
02:45 Guilty pleasure watch?
02:49 I love 1400s, 1500s TV shows.
02:54 The Medici.
02:56 I love Shadow and Bone, which is technically a young adult television show, but...
03:01 I don't know. I like fantasy.
03:03 Wow!
03:06 Do you have any secret talents?
03:09 I have what I call a gremlin voice.
03:11 Or like a Darth Vader voice.
03:13 I am your father.
03:17 Maybe it's more of a gremlin, but that's kind of cool.
03:19 I hope I'm not alienating people, but...
03:23 It's true. Just whip it out sometimes and get people to back up, you know?
03:30 Anyways, no. Wow, tough crowd.
03:33 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. My favorite.
03:44 And red wine.
03:46 Red wine.
03:47 What makes you feel most powerful and confident?
03:53 I feel most powerful when I can get up in front of people 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, so that's a new...
04:04 kind of a new skill.
04:06 Because I'm an actor, I speak as a character often.
04:09 But speaking as myself, I feel very powerful and quite confident.
04:14 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 Yeah, rock on.
04:25 What should every woman try at least once in their life?
04:28 Who am I to tell a woman what they should do?
04:31 Do what you f***ing want, how about that?
04:33 For themselves. That's what they should do.
04:35 Even if it's just a day, an hour, that's what you should do.
04:40 Woo! Look at all these stars and stripes.
04:44 I like stars.
04:46 Most starstruck moment?
04:49 Meeting Morgan Freeman.
04:51 I was very starstruck, so much so that I spelled my name for him.
04:55 Ariana. A-R-I-A-N-A.
04:58 One N.
05:00 That's something I did.
05:02 What advice would you give your younger self?
05:08 You know, I would tell my younger self to keep going.
05:12 It's okay that you're weird.
05:14 And your empathy and your gut intuition is your superpower.
05:20 Follow those things.
05:22 It's gonna be alright, little girl. That's also what I tell her.
05:26 It's gonna be okay.
05:28 Last one. You ready? I'm not.
05:31 It's just so powerful. So powerful.
05:36 One thing on your bucket list?
05:38 I have so many things on my bucket list.
05:41 But, you know, I don't prioritize rest.
05:44 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. I don't want to jump out of a plane. 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. I'm good.
06:05 But I would love to take a vacation.
06:07 I think that's it. No more balloons left.
06:10 Thank you for joining me, Ariana DeBose, as I played Pop Quiz with Mary Klint.
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