Ariana DeBose | 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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00:00Yeah! I'm really getting the hang of this!
00:04I am your father.
00:11What's up? I'm Ariana DeBose and I'm playing Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.
00:21Great.
00:23What is the best gift you've ever received?
00:27My bestie, John, gave me t-shirts that sort of reflect an inside joke.
00:32Like, take me to this apples and bees place. It's a line from the prom musical.
00:37And I realize that's more of an inside joke and it's very hard to explain, so I shall move on.
00:44Every time. Every time.
00:47Last text you sent?
00:49I think I said, okay my dude.
00:53Who did I send it to? My assistant.
00:56Another one?
01:00It's just really absurd.
01:03Word your friends would use to describe you?
01:06Muppet.
01:09It's kind of fun and cathartic.
01:12Last song that got stuck in your head?
01:15Oh, 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.
01:21Sweep the floors and they're all clean.
01:28I know, it's so bad. I got nothing.
01:32What word makes you cringe?
01:35Well, cringe makes me cringe.
01:37Especially because I've been described as cringe before, so that's been fun.
01:41And also moist.
01:44There's just something about it. Like it really...
01:47Moist.
01:52Last book you read?
01:55I Have Something to Tell You by Chastin Buttigieg.
01:59Intended for young queer people.
02:01Great book. Check it out.
02:04Getting the hang of it. It's kind of fun.
02:06Favorite dance move?
02:08I mean, I don't even know what that's called, but...
02:13Snake?
02:15I listen to a lot of 70s music, so kind of anything you would do to Donna Summer music.
02:21I feel love.
02:27Hi-yah!
02:29How did you make your first dollar?
02:32My first dollar was made when I was a baby, actually. I won the Ivory Baby Contest.
02:39So I made my first dollar off of my cuteness.
02:42Yeah! I'm really getting the hang of this!
02:46Guilty pleasure watch?
02:48I love 1400s, 1500s TV shows.
02:55The Medici.
02:57I love Shadow and Bone, which is technically a young adult television show, but...
03:01I don't know. I like fantasy.
03:04Wow!
03:06Do you have any secret talents?
03:09I have what I call a gremlin voice.
03:12Or like a Darth Vader voice.
03:14I am your father.
03:16Maybe it's more of a gremlin, but that's kind of cool.
03:20I hope I'm not alienating people, but...
03:23It's true.
03:25Just whip it out sometimes and get people to back up, you know?
03:31Anyways, no.
03:33Wow, tough crowd.
03:35Go-to late night snacks?
03:37Oreos and peanut butter.
03:39Should be celery and peanut butter, but it's not.
03:42Oreos. Delicious.
03:43My favorite.
03:45And red wine.
03:50What makes you feel most powerful and confident?
03:54I feel most powerful when I can get up in front of people and know exactly what I'm talking about.
03:59Speak from my heart.
04:01I have to get up and speak in front of people frequently these days, so that's a new...
04:05kind of a new skill.
04:07Because I'm an actor, I speak as a character often.
04:09But speaking as myself, I feel very powerful and quite confident.
04:13When I'm feeling my best, I am prepared.
04:17And people listen.
04:19People should listen in general. Not just to me, but to each other.
04:23Rock on.
04:25What should every woman try at least once in their life?
04:29Who am I to tell a woman what they should do?
04:32Do what you f***ing want. How about that?
04:34For themselves. That's what they should do.
04:36Even if it's just a day, an hour, that's what you should do.
04:40Woo!
04:42Look at all these stars and stripes.
04:45I like stars.
04:47Most starstruck moment?
04:50Meeting Morgan Freeman.
04:52I was very starstruck, so much so that I spelled my name for him.
04:56Ariana. A-R-I-A-N-A.
04:59One N.
05:01That's something I did.
05:05What advice would you give your younger self?
05:07You know, I would tell my younger self to keep going.
05:12It's okay that you're weird.
05:14And your empathy and your gut intuition is your superpower.
05:20Follow those things.
05:22Yeah. It's gonna be alright, little girl.
05:25That's also what I tell her.
05:27It's gonna be okay.
05:29Last one. You ready? I'm not.
05:31It's just so powerful. So powerful.
05:34So powerful.
05:36Number one thing on your bucket list?
05:39I have so many things on my bucket list.
05:41But, you know, I don't prioritize rest.
05:45So, number one thing on my bucket list is to go on a really great vacation
05:49where I get to simply relax, go for a swim, maybe do some yoga.
05:55I know. Boring.
05:57I don't want to jump out of a plane. No desire.
05:59I have no desire to be in a hot air balloon.
06:01There's enough hot air in the world.
06:04I'm good. But I would love to take a vacation.
06:08I think that's it. No more balloons left.
06:11Thank you for joining me, Ariana DeBose, as I played Pop Quiz with Mary Claire.