Dove’s note to herself when walking through Madame Tussaud’s: “Don’t stand too still.”
I set a challenge for myself: find a picture of Dove where she looks like a normal person rather than a wax replica. I did find one, but it was not a simple task, and the picture is from 2013. (And she was gorgeous with a natural look.)
Liv and Maddie was a great show. I watched an episode with my daughter several years ago. It was a show about identical twins who were exact opposites. And then I realized that the twins were being played by the same actress because I noticed how they shot the scenes, and it was done so well that you begin to forget it’s the same person and just follow whatever the plot was. I looked up to see who this girl was that could play both parts so well, and it was Dove Cameron.
It used to be that the same actor playing both parts of the role of twins in a movie was a bit forced – it was treated as a ‘novelty’ item in a movie, with a lot of shots meant to demonstrate how incredible the technology was (even though the technology was still not perfect at the time) and with a fair bit of tackiness in the script playing around with the idea. Modern technology now is pretty much perfect in integrating the same actor playing two roles in the same scene, and it can be incorporated naturally in the script of a well made movie (assuming that the movie is indeed otherwise well made). A good very recent example was in Sinners, where Michael B. Jordan played both parts of a twin role in a very smooth fashion and where the movie was otherwise good. Actually Sinners was really, really well done in my view and I highly recommend it if you have not seen it yet.
Liv and Maddie was done with practical effects. So they had doubles for the shots, and they never showed both twins’ faces at the same time. I honestly thought they were really twin actors until I noticed that yeah, you don’t see their faces at the same time.
And that’s really praise for Dove Cameron’s work. She totally depicted twins convincingly enough where you eventually forget it’s the same actress. Unlike something like The Acolyte where you get confused who it is unless you look at the clothing.
I haven’t seen Sinners yet. Although everyone’s telling me how good it is.
Dove is a brand of very white soap in the UK. I always think she is made out of it.
Not just in the UK. I think it is the #1 seller in the USA, and is one of the great success stories in the history of consumer products. In fact it is TWO success stories, fifty years apart.
The ad agency of Ogilvy and Mather touted its original success as one of their greatest achievements, along with Marlboro and Miller Lite. They turned it into a top brand by differentiating it from other brands with a hook: “Dove is one-quarter cleansing cream,” a tag meant to allay women’s fear that soap had a harsh impact on their skin. I think they later modified that claim to “one-quarter moisturizing cream”
Those tag-lines are gone now. They had gone stale by 2000, and the bar soap market was so saturated that Dove’s sales were falling, but Ogilvy and Mather managed to build it up again! That time they called it a “beauty bar” instead of a bar of “soap,” and they stressed how it worked for natural beauty, or “the real beauty,” as they called it. They also claim that it is the #1 brand recommended by dermatologists. When the new campaign hit, sales doubled in just three years.