Lili Reinhart: I had just signed a lease by myself in L.A., and I was terrified because I couldn’t afford it. Petsch: A way to get me out of my restaurant hosting job.Ĭharles Melton: I was a dog walker and working a Chinese takeout when I did my chemistry read with KJ and Cole for season two. Riverdale has gone in so many directions since it started. Last night, Casey looked at me in a booth and grabbed my hands and said, “I love you,” and I literally started crying. Petsch: We’re the only people who understand what we’re going through. Madelaine Petsch: What’s wrong with that?Īpa: There’s a part of my identity that I want to get back that I don’t really feel connected to. I mean, I’ve walked around with red hair for the past seven years.
I spent so many pivotal years on it and had to navigate through lots of big changes while the show was the only really consistent thing in my life. KJ Apa: I have a lot to learn about myself. You’ve all spent the majority of your adult life on this show. They gathered in June, soon after filming their last scene at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe and a few weeks before the SAG strike began, buzzing with last-day-of-school energy. The gang’s now back in the 1950s, and the characters have reverted to teenagers - even though the main cast, which also includes Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl Blossom), Cole Sprouse (Jughead Jones), Casey Cott (Kevin Keller), Charles Melton (Reggie Mantle), Vanessa Morgan (Toni Topaz), and Drew Ray Tanner (Fangs Fogarty), are all in their 20s and 30s. The show ends August 23 as one of the last of its kind: the 22-episodes-a-season teen soap. Riverdale took tropes from gothic horror, fantasy, telenovelas, soap operas, comic books, gay art-house films, dark high-school comedies, musicals, and mafia movies and smushed them together into a pop-culture polycule - while the ensemble held it all together, putting it on like some sort of weekly vaudeville act. The show was weird from the start, but around season three, the writers upped the ante with an organ-harvesting cult and evil nuns and an alien abduction and superpowers. And musical numbers, so many musical numbers. Veronica’s “Daddykins” was in prison for financial crimes and possible drug-trade connections.Īnd then came the Gargoyle King. In this world, adapted by showrunner and executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Archie Andrews ( KJ Apa) fucked - and he wasn’t just in a love triangle with Betty Cooper ( Lili Reinhart) and Veronica Lodge ( Camila Mendes) he was being groomed by Miss Grundy. Riverdale premiered in 2017 with a simple premise: What if Archie Comics, those hokey all-American checkout-aisle stalwarts, were dark? The CW show began as a moody small-town teen mystery centered on a “Who killed Laura Palmer?”–style murder.
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