- Oh, my God.
That's incredible.
I forgot that happened.
Wow.
Hey guys, I am Sofia Carson
and I am doing the breakdown with Cosmo.
I'll be revealing some of the most fun,
memorable and exciting moments in my career
and giving you the insight scoop on what really happened.
I'm ready.
I remember this so vividly.
This was literally my first day ever on a set.
My sister likes her present.
My whole family came, my sister was there
and my mom was there.
And I remember vividly right before this scene was shot,
my mom had dropped me off at set
and she took a photo of me walking onto the stage
and she texted me and said, "There she goes."
And that kind of became our thing.
And every time something special happens,
or I'm about to do something special,
she texts me saying, "There she goes."
So I guess this was the beginning of it all.
Ah!
Oh my gosh.
I'm gonna get emotional going through all of these.
This was one of the coolest video shoots I've ever done.
This was such a special shoot.
This was right after I shot the first "Descendants".
The Disney team reached out to me
for Evie to do a solo version of "Rotten to the Core".
And they flew me out to London to shoot
with this incredible director who had actually
created this never before used technology.
And where you see us shooting,
I'm in this kind of cylinder that was made
that has cameras 360 degrees and cameras all above me.
And we shot for two days.
It was 20 hour days each day.
I worked with the choreographer and I had to learn
a specific choreography for all the different Evies
that you saw.
And I just danced my heart out.
I forgot that happened.
I was just reminded.
I had forgotten that this song actually hit 38
on the Billboard Hot 100 the day that it was released,
which is incredible, truly incredible.
Oh my gosh.
Oh!
So I was playing Tessa,
from "A Cinderella Story: If The Shoe Fits".
It was this beautiful franchise that was started
by Selina and Hillary and I was lucky to be a part of it.
And we actually shot this movie, believe it or not,
in Cape Town, South Africa, which is a little fun fact
that people don't really expect.
Ended up being one of my favorite cities in the world.
It was absolutely magical.
And this was one of the last scenes of the movie
and also one of the last scenes that we shot.
And it's the moment where, you know,
my character stops hiding beneath the Cinderella costume
and just is free.
It's this beautiful moment with her prince charming
and it's such a beautiful song.
I love shooting these movies so much.
I don't know.
So this is a scene from the third "Descendants" movie
and this is Evie's solo in the movie called "One Kiss".
We shot this at what they called Evie's starter castle
because Evie is a badass independent princess
who buys her own castle, which I loved.
In this scene, her and Doug have had
this beautiful friendship
throughout the course of the three movies,
that has developed into something more,
but I think each of them is scared to say it.
And in this moment we kind of flipped
the fairy tale on its head,
and instead of the princess falling asleep
waiting for true love's kiss to wake her up,
Doug falls asleep.
I've adored Evie since the first day
that I put on my blue wig and I vowed to do
everything that I could to do her justice
and definitely in this film,
I think we all wanted to pour our hearts even extra
just to make this as special as we could make it.
Oh gosh.
This was my first ever like on camera sexy scene.
This is a big deal.
Fun fact, I also didn't know how to dive,
so I had to take diving lessons before I did that dive.
And I still think that I kind of belly flopped
when I did that dive, but we got it.
This is really cool because I just realized
that the person who shot the scene, our DP Matt,
and who directed the scene, my director, Liz,
are the same people that shot and directed "Purple Hearts".
Fun fact, it was winter.
So it was about 20 degrees when we were shooting this.
So we were very cold, but it was a really fun day.
It was a really special day.
It ended up being a really beautiful scene.
Aw.
I love this scene.
So this is our finale number from my movie with Netflix
called "Feel The Beat", where I played April,
this really amazing, determined and kind of fiery dancer.
Mia Michaels was the choreographer for this
and she choreographed this piece
and we actually learned this, I think,
a day or two before we shot it.
But by this point it was towards the end of filming
and my little co-stars had become like my family,
like my brothers and sisters.
This was a really emotional day for us.
I would tell them, you know, always and always and always
to keep their family close, to keep their mom close to them.
Oh, and I would also tell them to stay in school.
And they hated that.
I like, "Stay in school, stay in school."
I went to high school, I went to college.
I'm still gonna get my degree, but I'm going to get it.
Cause education is so important.
Oh, I love this scene.
This movie was really special.
It was the first movie that was ever shot
during the pandemic.
And I had the honor of being able to be a part
of this cast and this movie,
and this scene in particular was, I think,
our favorite scene and the most emotional scene
because so many families had been divided with the pandemic
and had so much loss and it was so beautiful
to have this just like one slither of door
between the two of us, separating this really powerful love.
And it was such a beautiful
and really emotional scene for us to shoot.
I had literally been dreaming of this scene
since I read the script five years ago.
I'm so happy that I can finally talk about it.
"Purple Hearts" is a film so dear to my heart.
I came on board to star in it
and to executive produce the film alongside Liz Allen,
who was my fearless director, Netflix,
and my partners at Alloy.
And I've been developing Cassie since the beginning.
We pitched the movie, cast the movie.
I had the honor of writing the soundtrack for the film
with Justin Tranter.
And then we shot the film.
And this scene in particular.
Fun fact of this actual scene,
obviously Nick and I were in different places
when shooting it, but I actually...
He came to set when I shot my part of it
and he actually laid on the floor
so he could be my eye line,
so that when I would sing "Come Back Home"
I was singing to him.
And then when he shot his part of the scene,
I went to the Iraq set and I sang live for the soldiers.
It was a really special scene for us.
It's a really pivotal moment in our movie.
It kind of changes everything for our characters.
We meet these two people, Cassie and Luke,
who come from different worlds.
One red, one blue.
And it's a really powerful moment.
And we had been dreaming of what this moment
would sound like and feel like
since we first read the script,
and when "Come Back Home" was born,
we knew it was perfect for this.
I really wove her story and Cassie and Luke's story
into each of these songs and poured my heart into them.
So I'm so happy that the world can hear them.
Thank you guys so much for watching
and be sure to watch my Netflix movie "Purple Hearts",
out right now.