Dove Cameron has mastered the art of multitasking — in this case, doing an interview while in the glam chair with a premiere hours away.

“We’re just every day flying by the seat of our pants. It’s crazy,” Cameron says. “I haven’t done this much press since, I don’t know, Disney days. It’s actually more now — I thought I knew how to do a crazy amount of press, but the amount of press that we’re doing for this show is, it’s really wild.”

The former Disney star, who rose to fame in the series “Liv and Maddie” and later the “Descendants” franchise, is starring in a new thriller series for Prime Video called “56 Days,” opposite Avan Jogia. The 30-year-old actor plays Ciara, who begins an intense relationship with Oliver; their relationship flashes back across its beginning and forward to a police investigation into an unidentified dead body.

“There’s this feeling that when I read a script, when I really love the character that is like, it’s not work-related. It’s almost as though they’re a real person to me and I feel this sense of responsibility,” Cameron says. “‘I understand you, I want to do you justice.’ I think that she’s a deeply complex character. I’m always drawn to characters that need a little bit of defense.”

Cameron was in New York for the Met Gala two years ago when she first got a “kismet” phone call about the show, from the creator Karyn Usher, whom she had first met some 10 years prior about a different show.

“One of my big early heartbreaks in Hollywood was when I was 14 years old and I was in the running for this Fox show, back when Fox was doing all those really intense network shows way before streaming even, and it was a lead in my own Fox show that was about this little girl who her dad was a spy and then he goes missing,” Cameron recalls. “And it was such a rare project because you never get a lead role in a network show as a kid unless it’s Disney.”

That show ended up going with a different actor, but Usher had sent Cameron flowers following the audition, thanking her for her work. The two hadn’t seen each other at all in the decade that followed, before “56 Days” came along.

“It’s a show focused around four people that are varying degrees of being led by good intentions and fighting against their own understanding of the world around them and the things that keep them trapped in their own world views and their own end goals and prerogatives,” Cameron says. “People are more complex and more fragile and more affectable than we make them out to be. People are not one-dimensional and it doesn’t make them good or bad. It makes them something in between. I think that presenting complex characters like this and asking the audience to understand and empathize with them is actually a really beautiful psychological exercise into understanding other people around you or not dehumanizing people.”

Cameron has entered into a stage of her career when she feels like she has “finally” entered into a more adult chapter.

“I think that I’m able to finally play roles that I wanted to play when I was younger because I am more experienced. I’m older now. People don’t see me in a light that was maybe very specific from when I was younger, very carved into the mind of the public because of childhood branding and things like that,” she says. “So I’m really enjoying that kind of level of freedom. It feels like the floodgates are kind of open with what opportunities I have now, which is just something I’ve never had, never had before these last two years.”

Source: Women’s Wear Daily Magazine

Happy release day, 56 Days! The past days Dove attended various events to promote the brand new show in New York. Many photos can now be found in our gallery and make sure to stream the first two episodes of 56 Days now on Prime!

A week prior to its release, 56 Days celebrated its premiere in Los Angeles last night (February 11). Dove, her fiancé Damiano and her co-stars attended the premiere together. The series premieres on Prime on February 18.

Dove and her ‘56 Days‘ co-star Avan Jogia sit down with The Screen Chatter to chat about their upcoming show.

Dove and her 56 Days co-stars attended the 14th SCAD TVfestin Atlanta last night (February 6th) to sit down and answer some questions about the upcoming Prime show.

Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia gush over their fiancés, Damiano David and Halsey, while promoting ‘56 Days,’ which streams Feb. 18 on Prime Video. Dove gets teary-eyed over the Måneskin lead singer, whom she calls, ‘The most honest, intentional, caring, respectful, integrity-based, lovely, loyal, beautiful person I’ve ever met.’ As for Avan, he praises Halsey for walking through life with him no matter the circumstance. The actors play a wedding-planning game, and share their preferences on how they envision their big day. Dove shares a heartfelt response as to why she never pictured herself as a bride when she was a kid. While Dove thinks she and her Italian beau may wed in his native country, Avan says he thinks he and Halsey will do an intimate backyard wedding.

The former Disney star has a new TV series (an erotic thriller), a new love, and a new sense of herself.

Dove Cameron can seem like two different people: The one crystallized in many minds is a sparkly, blonde sitcom starlet frozen in happy-go-lucky teenhood; the other, sitting across from me, is quickly approaching her 30th birthday. Ink decorates her hands and wrists, poking out from under the sleeves of her gray cashmere cardigan. Her dark brown hair is tied back, save for two dangling tendrils, which she twirls around her fingers when chasing a tangent. On her face, smudgy black eyeliner extends from the outer corner of each eye.

Duality comes up a lot in Cameron’s work—alter egos, inner contradictions, mirror images. Her role as the twin protagonists in Disney’s Liv and Maddie launched her acting career in the 2010s. Last year, she appeared as two different versions of herself (hot/cool) in a campaign for Urban Decay. This month, alongside fellow former child star Avan Jogia, she’s set to appear in the murder mystery series 56 Days (based on the novel) as Ciara Wyse, one half of a (very hot) couple building a relationship on secrets, lies, and double lives.

“I think that the reason for me being an actor is my duality,” Cameron says. “I can channel my energy in very different ways. On any given day, I could be more of one part of me or more of the other.” Rather than get a table at one of the numerous swanky, more private restaurants near Cameron’s home in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, she asked to have a late-afternoon latte at Maman, a chain of rustic French cafés serving decadent pastries and virtuous juices. “Outside of my job…I know who I am. I have a very strong personality. The core qualities that I possess are evergreen.”

As an actor, duality is a great thing to have. As a celebrity, not so much. “People tend to split you down the middle,” she says. “It’s like, ‘But you were this, and now you’re that. You’re blonde again and you’re dating a guy, so you are not queer. And now you have brown hair, so you’re goth, but you’re not wearing makeup, but you’re goth.’”

There’s another strange assumption made among her followers, Cameron says, that her recent return to brown hair signifies a mental health issue of some sort. The reality is far less scintillating. “People are always like, ‘Oh no, she’s brunette, she’s sad again.’ This time when I dyed my hair dark, it was purely because I needed to stop bleaching it,” she explains. “It’s got to stop chopping itself off. It has to grow.”

Our lovely Dove sat down with Alex from Call Her Daddy Podcast to disguss toxic patterns, her engagement, how Disney changed her life, and how women should embrace getting older.

Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia join Access Daily guest co-hosts Zuri Hall and Emily Orozco to share about their new thriller “56 Days.” The stars promise intense twists in the upcoming series, which chronicles a couple’s whirlwind romance that leads to a murder investigation. Dove also details the music she created for the show and spills romantic details on how her new fiancé, Damiano David, proposed! “56 Days” premieres on Prime Video on February 18th.