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Ariana DeBose gets real in a game of Pop Quiz. The Oscar-winner shares the embarrassing thing she did when she met Morgan Freeman, the last text she sent, why she hates the word cringe and more.

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00:00Yeah! I'm really getting the hang of this!

00:04I am your father.

00:11What's up? I'm Ariana DeBose and I'm playing Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.

00:21Great.

00:23What is the best gift you've ever received?

00:27My bestie, John, gave me t-shirts that sort of reflect an inside joke.

00:32Like, take me to this apples and bees place. It's a line from the prom musical.

00:37And I realize that's more of an inside joke and it's very hard to explain, so I shall move on.

00:44Every time. Every time.

00:47Last text you sent?

00:49I think I said, okay my dude.

00:53Who did I send it to? My assistant.

00:56Another one?

01:00It's just really absurd.

01:03Word your friends would use to describe you?

01:06Muppet.

01:09It's kind of fun and cathartic.

01:12Last song that got stuck in your head?

01:15Oh, I was singing it earlier today. It's from Tangled, which is silly because I haven't watched that movie in a very long time.

01:21Sweep the floors and they're all clean.

01:28I know, it's so bad. I got nothing.

01:32What word makes you cringe?

01:35Well, cringe makes me cringe.

01:37Especially because I've been described as cringe before, so that's been fun.

01:41And also moist.

01:44There's just something about it. Like it really...

01:47Moist.

01:52Last book you read?

01:55I Have Something to Tell You by Chastin Buttigieg.

01:59Intended for young queer people.

02:01Great book. Check it out.

02:04Getting the hang of it. It's kind of fun.

02:06Favorite dance move?

02:08I mean, I don't even know what that's called, but...

02:13Snake?

02:15I listen to a lot of 70s music, so kind of anything you would do to Donna Summer music.

02:21I feel love.

02:27Hi-yah!

02:29How did you make your first dollar?

02:32My first dollar was made when I was a baby, actually. I won the Ivory Baby Contest.

02:39So I made my first dollar off of my cuteness.

02:42Yeah! I'm really getting the hang of this!

02:46Guilty pleasure watch?

02:48I love 1400s, 1500s TV shows.

02:55The Medici.

02:57I love Shadow and Bone, which is technically a young adult television show, but...

03:01I don't know. I like fantasy.

03:04Wow!

03:06Do you have any secret talents?

03:09I have what I call a gremlin voice.

03:12Or like a Darth Vader voice.

03:14I am your father.

03:16Maybe it's more of a gremlin, but that's kind of cool.

03:20I hope I'm not alienating people, but...

03:23It's true.

03:25Just whip it out sometimes and get people to back up, you know?

03:31Anyways, no.

03:33Wow, tough crowd.

03:35Go-to late night snacks?

03:37Oreos and peanut butter.

03:39Should be celery and peanut butter, but it's not.

03:42Oreos. Delicious.

03:43My favorite.

03:45And red wine.

03:50What makes you feel most powerful and confident?

03:54I feel most powerful when I can get up in front of people and know exactly what I'm talking about.

03:59Speak from my heart.

04:01I have to get up and speak in front of people frequently these days, so that's a new...

04:05kind of a new skill.

04:07Because I'm an actor, I speak as a character often.

04:09But speaking as myself, I feel very powerful and quite confident.

04:13When I'm feeling my best, I am prepared.

04:17And people listen.

04:19People should listen in general. Not just to me, but to each other.

04:23Rock on.

04:25What should every woman try at least once in their life?

04:29Who am I to tell a woman what they should do?

04:32Do what you f***ing want. How about that?

04:34For themselves. That's what they should do.

04:36Even if it's just a day, an hour, that's what you should do.

04:40Woo!

04:42Look at all these stars and stripes.

04:45I like stars.

04:47Most starstruck moment?

04:50Meeting Morgan Freeman.

04:52I was very starstruck, so much so that I spelled my name for him.

04:56Ariana. A-R-I-A-N-A.

04:59One N.

05:01That's something I did.

05:05What advice would you give your younger self?

05:07You know, I would tell my younger self to keep going.

05:12It's okay that you're weird.

05:14And your empathy and your gut intuition is your superpower.

05:20Follow those things.

05:22Yeah. It's gonna be alright, little girl.

05:25That's also what I tell her.

05:27It's gonna be okay.

05:29Last one. You ready? I'm not.

05:31It's just so powerful. So powerful.

05:34So powerful.

05:36Number one thing on your bucket list?

05:39I have so many things on my bucket list.

05:41But, you know, I don't prioritize rest.

05:45So, number one thing on my bucket list is to go on a really great vacation

05:49where I get to simply relax, go for a swim, maybe do some yoga.

05:55I know. Boring.

05:57I don't want to jump out of a plane. No desire.

05:59I have no desire to be in a hot air balloon.

06:01There's enough hot air in the world.

06:04I'm good. But I would love to take a vacation.

06:08I think that's it. No more balloons left.

06:11Thank you for joining me, Ariana DeBose, as I played Pop Quiz with Mary Claire.

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