Dove Cameron Reveals Why Coming Home to Fiancé Damiano David Was a Relief After Filming “56 Days” (Exclusive)
Dove Cameron Reveals Why Coming Home to Fiancé Damiano David Was a Relief After Filming “56 Days” (Exclusive)
Brenton Blanchet, Abby Stern, Julia MooreThu, February 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM UTC
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Dove Cameron and Damiano David attend the Los Angeles premiere of '56 Days' on Feb. 11, 2026
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Dove Cameron says returning home to her relationship was a "beautiful thing" after filming her new series, 56 Days
The show stars Cameron and Avan Jogia as a couple who fall in love before an unidentified dead body is found in their apartment 56 days later
Cameron tells PEOPLE she would "come home at the end of the day" after filming to her fiancé, musician Damiano David, and say "whoa, babe, this is crazy"
Dove Cameron says coming home to her fiancé after filming her latest physcological thriller was a "beautiful thing."
Speaking with PEOPLE at the Los Angeles premiere of the series, 56 Days, Cameron says it was "funny" leaving set and returning home to spend time with her fiancé, musician Damiano David, just given the difference between her character's world and her own.
"My partner and I were, we were only together for eight months when we started shooting, so it was definitely a beautiful thing to come home to every night was just like, wow," she says. "I'm great. I'm glad I'm not Ciara."
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Dove Cameron and Damiano David at the Balmain Womenswear Spring-Summer 2025 show
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Cameron, who announced her engagement to David last month, takes on a new type of role in 56 Days. The series is based on Catherine Ryan Howard's book of the same name and begins with an unidentified body being found in the bathtub of an apartment. There's there's no indication whether the victim is Oliver (Avan Jogia) or Ciara (Cameron) — or who killed who.
"I learned that what I previously thought were my limits or not my limits as an actor," Cameron, 30, says of her performance. "I had never done anything like this. There were so many things that scared me or felt like really big mountains to climb in the script."
She adds, "Typically when you're shooting a film or a TV show, there's only two or three massive scenes that are really you have to go to places in your life and bring back an old trauma in order to convey them correctly. But in our show, there were multitudes. Almost every episode had a couple."
While she was "unsure that I was going to be able to produce that level of emotional reaction that many times," Cameron says she made it through and feels "really proud of the work I've done."
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"It just shows me that I never know what I'm capable of," she says. "I can always do more than I think."
Dove Cameron as Ciara Wyse in '56 Days'
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Speaking with PEOPLE separately ahead of the show's release on Prime Video, Cameron said she would "come home at the end of the day" to her partner and say, "Whoa, babe, this is crazy."
"This was a very challenging show," she adds.
Jogia also told PEOPLE that developing the on-screen chemistry he shared with Cameron was made easier by the fact that they're both "deeply unserious." She agreed, playfully calling them "deeply silly, stupid individuals."
"Chemistry is also such a casting thing. This is why we have casting directors. Their job is to intuit that that would work," Jogia, 34, said. "And then I think, secondarily, just — we were able to look out for each other. I think that also helped through the process, and trust building and safety."
"And also just being deeply silly, I think that's really what it was," he says.
56 Days is now streaming on Prime Video.
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