Riverdale’s Cole Sprouse Responds to Those IRL Lili Reinhart Romance Rumors
We’ve been shipping “Bughead” (that is, Riverdale’s Betty and Jughead) on-screen and IRL ever since reports claimed that Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart were dating. Now, as we gear up for the dark second season of the hit series, Cole Sprouse is opening up (at length!) about the romance rumors.
“Since the show began, people have wanted Lili and I to be together,” Sprouse admitted to Entertainment Weekly during a set visit. But they’re not the only Riverdale couple of people’s dreams. “People have wanted Lili and Cami[la Mendes, who plays Veronica Lodge] to be together,” he continued. “People have wanted K.J. [Apa, AKA Archie Andrews] and I to be together. People have wanted every actor on this show to be in a union that they could make real and talk about.”
While that might be a slight (?) exaggeration, he isn’t off the mark when he says that fans like to ponder possible IRL hookups, even if there’s no basis for them. “So, I think that kind of discussion, especially because it’s based so much on rumor and hearsay, needs to be taken with a grain of salt. We’re all still human lives that are interacting with the source material,” he told EW.
However, he’s not bothered by the buzz for a very good reason: “But, truthfully, it’s very pleasing that people talk about Lili and I in that way because it means that we’re resonating so strongly from our character perspective that people really want that to be true.”
He added, “I think as professional actors we can pat ourselves on the back for that and go, ‘This was a success.’ It was such a success that people want to see it in real life.”
We’ll see if they can continue that success when Riverdale returns Wednesday, October 11, at 8pm ET on The CW.
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