Dove Cameron Stuns For InStyle

Dove Cameron sat down with InStyle while hiding out recently in New York City. The young singer/actress met with the outlet to promote her new film, Vengeance. Highlights from her interview are below.

On taking a smaller role in Vengeance: “It never occurred to me that I shouldn’t! I think the [Vengeance] script is brilliant. I think that B.J. is brilliant. That was pretty much it. If [B.J.] was like, ‘Do you want to come be an assistant? Do you want to copy scripts for the writer’s room?’ I would do it. For me, I care more about the project than how big my part is gonna be.”

On coming out as queer: “It led to finding more pieces of myself. And also, learning that I can answer questions, from myself and from others, with ‘I don’t know yet.’ And that’s really powerful. When I was younger, the unknown would be where all of my fear and anxiety was,” she elaborates. “Now, I’ve started learning that uncertainty is a true place of joy.”

On social media: “Sometimes, I think [social media] has made us a mirror of a mirror, just a mimicry of reality. Things that used to be so pure and beautiful, these mediums of art like fashion and music and entertainment. Now, they’re basically being consumed by these mega-monsters in the world, and things that have pure intentions, like wanting to create something really beautiful? It’s all been commoditized. We’re talking over ourselves, you know? Things that are the most human — art, I mean, and the impulse to connect with others — they’re now the least human. But if we show up online knowing that, we have a huge opportunity to reverse it.”

You can check out more from her interview here. Vengeance is out in theaters now.