Dove Cameron Recollects Her First-Ever Gig with Ryan Gosling’s Halloween Band

Imagine it or not, Dove Cameron as soon as carried out music with Ryan Gosling.

In a brand new interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Knowledgeable podcast, the “Too A lot” musician recalled her first-ever paid gig performing alongside Gosling and Zach Shields of their gothic duo Lifeless Man’s Bones throughout her childhood.

“Humorous sufficient, the primary gig I bought was for Ryan Gosling’s Halloween band,” mentioned Cameron, 29. “And it’s f—ing unbelievable. He can do f—ing every little thing.”

“He had this loopy Halloween band referred to as Lifeless Man’s Bones,” she added of Gosling and Shields’ now-defunct musical venture, which resulted within the launch of 1 self-titled album in 2009 that includes creepy tracks like “Lose Your Soul” and “Within the Room The place You Sleep.”

“And it’s actually fairly good. I nonetheless take heed to it. It’s extremely experimental,” mentioned Cameron, noting she joined the group as a part of a “ghostly kids’s choir” for one efficiency whereas rising up on Bainbridge Island in Washington.

Whereas she’d already acted in some native theater productions on the time, the Lifeless Man’s Bones present marked her first actual gig. “I bought paid, like, $120 or one thing,” she joked.

The present occurred at “an adults-only underground membership” in the course of the band’s tour, for which Gosling and Shields “had been casting regionally” for younger singers like Cameron. “That was my first-ever factor,” she mentioned.

Following the Lifeless Man’s Bones gig, the “Boyfriend” singer’s profession actually took off after she landed the lead position in Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie, for which she gained an Emmy Award. Since then, she’s starred within the Descendants franchise in addition to Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon!, amongst different tasks — together with her hit music profession.

“My dad and mom needed completely nothing much less for me than to be in movie and tv,” mentioned Cameron of her mother Bonnie and late father Philip. “I believe it was one thing that they felt was sort of inevitable, and that was my gross sales pitch.”

“I used to be like, ‘I am gonna do that after I flip 18 with or with out you. I might actually love your assist, and I might love to begin earlier than it will get a lot tougher for me to begin when all the opposite ladies are 18,'” she defined.