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Sofia Carson had just come back to earth. On a recent March morning, the actress-singer awoke at 3 to take a sunrise hot-air balloon ride over the rolling hills of Temecula, Calif.
It was really special, she said of the skyward voyage. I wasn’t scared at all.
Unlike many millennial stars, the 31-year-old doesn’t share much about her private life in interviews or get too candid with her nearly 20 million Instagram followers.
It’s an elegant persona for an actress who not long ago was known primarily for her role as Evie, the blue-haired teenage daughter of the Evil Queen in Disney Channel’s “Descendants” TV movies.
Facing the grandness of all that was coming my way, even though it was, of course, overwhelming, was much easier than if I was a child.
She found a willing partner in Netflix. Over the past five years, Carson has signed on to six Netflix films, beginning with the 2020 dance dramedy “Feel the Beat.”
Notably, she starred as Cassie Salazar, the musician who married a soldier to get health insurance in the 2022 film “Purple Hearts,” a project for which Carson also served as an executive producer and songwriter.
I’m 10 years into my career, yet, it still feels, and I say this with my heart, that it’s just the beginning.
I did. Some of the things I’ve already checked off: My dream was to sing with Andrea Bocelli, and I had the honor of performing with the maestro many times and releasing two songs with him. Being a UNICEF ambassador was on my list, and my work with them is now the most important part of everything I do. Broadway was on there, and that’s something I still would like to do.
I’ve always been a proud nerd, and I majored in communications and minored in international relations at U.C.L.A. But I had a very different college experience than most, even from the very beginning, because I would Zipcar to auditions between classes, and then I would write songs on my keyboard with my headphones in so I wouldn’t wake my roommate at night.
It’s not. That’s not what feels like me. I find such joy and fulfillment from storytelling through film. And I also am finding a lot of joy in doing a music career my way.
There have been many men who never quite understood my music choices, to take a lane that wasn’t the pop star lane, that wasn’t the sexy lane. I would be offered songs that, to me, were demeaning toward women, that were derogatory, that were too sexual.
Not taking the pop star route has felt natural to me.
I still stand by what we did, and I almost felt that sometimes people didn’t quite get the message. But it’s always important to listen and to learn.
It’s funny. My sister kept seeing TikToks of people filming luggage belts, and whenever they would see a red ribbon on a suitcase, they were like, “Oh, my God, get me out of here!” My experience has been that I now get recognized a little bit more by T.S.A., and, since “Carry-On” is an action movie, I also get recognized by a lot of dudes, which is awesome.
I long to emulate the careers of Barbra Streisand and Cher — women who redefined what it was to be a woman in this industry — to be a director, a producer, an executive, a musician, a songwriter. I’d love to work with Greta Gerwig, Baz Luhrmann, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola. I’d love to do theater, and I want to keep making movies and music that make me happy.
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