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Dove Cameron described making her London stage debut as “like medicine for me” as she vowed to return to perform in more shows.
The actress and singer, 23, got her big break as a teenager in the Disney Channel sitcom Liv And Maddie. She has spoken openly about her previous struggles with anorexia and the pressure of sudden fame, and changed her name legally to Dove in tribute to her father who died when she was 15.
Last night she said: “Honestly this time in London has been so healing for me. I feel very in touch with my human side when I do things like this and that is important in an industry where that’s not always easy, and London itself and this show and this cast has been like medicine for me. I want to come back and do more theatre.”
She stars in The Light in the Piazza as Clara, a naive young woman who falls for a Florentine while travelling in the Italian city with her mother, who is played by opera singer Renée Fleming.
Cameron said of her “legendary” co-star: “I can’t speak highly enough of her. I can never oversell her as a human and how welcoming, nurturing and maternal she has been.”
The Light in the Piazza is at the Royal Festival Hall until Jul 5
The Light in the Piazza at the Southbank Centre - in pictures
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