Cole Sprouse Talks Disney, Riverdale & More w/ The Last Magazine
Cole Sprouse is featured in the newest issue of The Last Magazine. The star is in the magazine to talk about his brand new show, Riverdale.
On being branded a Disney kid: “I think while it’s easy to group us all into a similar category, all of our paths have remained unique. We end up having to show the same maturation, just in different ways. We’re consistently trying to prove our humanity to a group of people that has a really hard time believing it.”
On first being put off by Riverdale: “When I first heard the abstract, it kind of put a sour taste in my mouth. I come from a comic background—I worked at a comic shop—and when you hear about a dark and gritty take on an otherwise beloved franchise, that’s all the wrong buzzwords for the right project. Nothing really dubious happens in the original Archie Digests, but as I started to do more research, I realized the universe of Archie is really wide open.
The Punisher comes to Archie, Archie dies when he gets shot trying to protect his friend, and in the new comics, zombies come to Archie. So it seemed like the road had been paved for a while for something like this. My knowledge now is that the Archie universe is wide enough for something like this to take place.”
On Riverdale: “Riverdale is a much more human project than the last one and I realize now that though I’ve had enough time to step away and to take a breather, my main challenge if I’m going to continue acting is to discern the things that were valuable about my childhood and the skills I acquired as a child and the things to keep and the things to let go. It’s more real, and I don’t think just because it’s on the forefront of pop culture that it should be treated any less than something very ‘noble.’ I’m going to try and do that and see how it ends up.”
You can read his full interview here. Cole literally gives the best interviews.
Source: The Last Magazine