Dylan Sprouse recalls his reaction to brother Cole being cast on “Riverdale”: 'I knew what he was getting into'

'The biggest thing that sucked was that I just didn’t get to see my brother as often,' the actor told Andy Cohen.

Riverdale transformed Cole Sprouse's career, ushering him from child star to teen idol. Now, his brother Dylan is opening up about the toll it took on both twins.

Sprouse sat down Thursday for an interview with Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM live show to promote his upcoming macho thriller The Duel. Cohen asked Sprouse about a wide range of topics, from Quiet On Set and his experience as a child actor, to his defense of costar Kim Rhodes on the Suite Life of Zack and Cody set.

But when the subject of his brother came up, Dylan got personal.

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"When Cole got on Riverdale," Cohen asked, "how did you view that?... You’re obviously so close and when you saw him having this amazing third chapter, was there a part of you that was like, 'Man, I wish I was on that show?'"

Sprouse simply replied, "No." The elder Sprouse twin seems to always have approached his career more conservatively, taking fewer big swings in an effort to retain a more robust personal life. The actor married his partner, model Barbara Palvin, last year at an intimate ceremony in her native Hungary.

Though Sprouse feels no regret that Cole garnered a major career boost from his seven years on Riverdale, he does have regrets, telling Cohen, "I would say the biggest thing that sucked was that I just didn’t get to see my brother as often."

Riverdale has been likened to the "acting bootcamps" of ’80s and ’90s teen soaps like Melrose Place and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Grueling production schedules, remote shoots that separate you from friends and family, and material that makes enormous physical and emotional demands on performers define the set experience.

Yet if the Golden Globe nominations, starring roles in horror franchises, and hit Netflix star vehicles the rest of the Riverdale cast went on to achieve testify to anything, it's the success of the bootcamp model in producing versatile, reliable, in-demand actors. Charles Melton himself referred to Riverdale as "my academy of acting."

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Sprouse hinted at a dark side his brother's experience, however. "I’m gonna be real frank with you. I knew what he was getting into signing up to a CW network television show in Vancouver," he told Cohen.

"It was a lot of what you had been through before," Cohen replied, prompting Sprouse to continue: "Totally. Except this is a moody, strange show that shoots mostly night shoots in a town that’s virtually dead. A ghost town. So he wasn’t a huge fan, realistically, of the time spent up there, even though he loves his cast and crew and he loves everybody."

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"It was a tough shoot, man. I think anyone would say that," Sprouse said.

Since Riverdale wrapped in 2023, Cole has starred in Zelda Williams' Lisa Frankenstein and Tommy Dorfman's I Wish You All The Best, alongside Lena Dunham and Alexandra D'Addario. Dylan is on the road promoting The Duel, which released in theaters for one night only on July 31 and is now available for rent on Fandango at Home (formerly Vudu).

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