Riverdale Cast Admits It's Difficult When People Make Fun of Show, Compare It to Marvel Films
Ahead of the August 23 series finale, Lili Reinhart, KJ Apa, Cole Sprouse, Camila Mendes, and other cast members gathered for an interview. During it, they discuss how their show if often made fun of on social media. “I think it’s important to acknowledge that our show is made fun of a lot. People see clips taken out of context and are like, ‘What? I thought this was about teenagers.’ And we thought so as well-in season one. But it’s really not been easy to feel that you’re the butt of a joke,” Reinhart said. “We all want to be actors; we’re passionate about what we do. So when the absurdity of our show became a talking point, it was difficult. It is ‘What the fuck?’ That’s the whole point. When we’re doing our table reads and something ridiculous happens, Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa] is laughing because he understands the absurdity and the campiness.”
Camila Mendes then commented on how the absurdity is on par with the absurdity in Marvel movies. "Superhero movies are the main thing at the box office these days, and those are the most absurd stories you could imagine!" she added. "You've got a fucking talking raccoon fighting aliens in space! No one's like, 'This makes no sense.' We're a comic book; it's supposed to be fun and fictional and weird. If you want to watch a teen show where there's just a bunch of kids in a high school dealing with relationship drama, there's a lot out there."
Cole Sprouse then quipped, "Go watch Euphoria."
"Roberto didn't want to do that," Mendes added. "I think he wanted something that was more outlandish."
Elsewhere in the interview, Lili said: “We can all be happy that we had a fucking consistent job for seven years. I could speak for probably all of us: We will never again do something that’s 100-plus episodes.”
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