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Dove Cameron leads Prime Video's new thriller 56 Days alongside Avan Jogia, marking her first major TV role in quite a few years
The Disney star, 30, tells PEOPLE about the "Hollywood fever dream" situation that led to her being cast as Ciara in the series: "I was like, 'What the f---?'"
56 Days is now streaming on Prime Video
56 Dayswas a showDove Cameronwas simply meant to be in.
The sexy, psychological thriller, which was based on Catherine Ryan Howard's book of the same name, sees Cameron andAvan Jogiaplay Ciara and Oliver. The pair fall hard and fast after a chance meeting at a grocery store, only for a dead body to be found in their apartment just 56 days later.
Cameron, 30, tells PEOPLE it was a "very challenging show," but it was also one that was tailored to her — literally.
"I had a really weird sort of kismet thing that happened with this show, which was that when I was 14 years old, so 16 years ago, I was auditioning for a show that Karyn Usher had created," she explains, telling a story that even her costar, Jogia, 34, has never heard. "I got to the final casting rounds for this show about a child whose father was a spy, and the spy goes missing, so she has to use her spy skills ... It was likeHannawithSaoirse Ronan. And it was on Fox, and it was before Disney."
Cameron remembers that Usher, who created56 Daysalongside Lisa Zwerling, "wanted me to get the role" on the Fox series and was "advocating for me," even going to the lengths of "rewriting" to try to get Cameron the part.
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"They ended up not going with me and the producers went with someone else, and — I'm not joking — she just reached out to me out of the blue, first time since I was 14 years old, and was like, 'I remember you from when you were a child. I always wanted to work with you. I hope that you want to do this part.," Cameron recalls. "And I was like, 'What the f---?' "
"It was like a Hollywood fever dream," she says of how the role of Ciara fell into her lap.
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Usher then sent her the script for56 Days,which the "Boyfriend" singer said had "all of these components of things that I'd never done before, but I just felt ready."
"I was in a time where I had just finishedwriting my album, and I didn't know when it was going to come out, and so I was like, I got the time, this feels like the universe intervening. I'm ready."
It helps that it was "the best script I've read in a very long time," she adds.
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In an Instagramposton Feb. 18, when the show premiered on Prime Video, Cameron said that she couldn't "delve into what this character means to me right now because there's too much to say and I couldn't fit it all here."
"I hope you love Ciara as much as I loved and love her still, my girl, my world," she wrote of her character.
56 Daysis now streaming on Prime Video.
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