Cole Sprouse has responded to reports that he’s dating his Riverdale co-star Lili Reinhart.
Over the summer, it was reported that Cole and Lili, who play on-screen couple Jughead Jones and Betty Cooper in the hit CW series, had started dating in real life.
The pair have remained silent about the rumours – however, Cole played especially coy in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, when he was asked if the co-stars are in fact dating.
“Since the show began, people have wanted Lili and I to be together. People have wanted Lili and Cami [Mendes] to be together People have wanted KJ [Apa] and I to be together,” he told EW.
“People have wanted every actor on this show to be in a union that they could make real and talk about.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Meanwhile, Lili Reinhart declined to comment.
Riverdale returns on October 11 in the US, and will premiere on Netflix the following day.
