DOVE CAMERON has literally just spontaneously burst into song. We're sitting in the Guggenheim Museum cafe overlooking Central Park, chatting about viral TikTok tracks, and she's trying to remember the name of that Billie Eilish number from the Barbie movie. "I used to float…" Dove sings, in a voice that immediately cuts through the noise around us. She does it without any self-consciousness, like the way other people sing while they're doing their dishes or in the shower. In our case, three heads immediately turn in our direction. If they hadn't realized they were in the same room as An Extremely Talented Famous Person, they know now.
Her fans have, of course, known all along. They've been with the 28-year-old since the beginning—or since 2013, when she was 17, if we're being literal—when she starred as the titular twins in the Disney Channel series Liv and Maddie. Then those fans multiplied when she played Mal in the hugely popular Descendants franchise, also on Disney. She had children across the country in a chokehold (if you need proof of this, two high school girls spotted Dove on our way out of the museum and literally squealed with delight) even if their parents couldn't pick her out of a lineup. But then she showed off a powerhouse voice in Hairspray Live! and a new category of stans joined in. Appearing alongside Jennifer Aniston in Netflix's Dumplin' in 2018 didn't hurt either; neither did her role in Apple TV+'s musical comedy Schmigadoon! And then there was the music, which served as a soundtrack to every Descendants movie and helped her rake in Spotify listeners before she had a chance to create her own sound.
But around the time she turned 24, some of that work started to feel at odds with the person she was becoming. |
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