Riverdale: Cole Sprouse Discusses Jughead & Burgers

Beyond the debate or whether or not the character of Jughead Jones in The CW’s Riverdale would or should be asexual, many are wondering why we haven’t seen much of Jughead with his #1 true love from the comic books: Burgers, long a staple of the character since his first appearance in 1941.

While on a recent visit to the Riverdale sets in Vancouver, we asked actor Cole Sprouse if we will, in fact, be seeing Jughead scarfing down some burgers.

“I’m a big fan of Death Note, and L in Death Note is one of those characters… actually, L and Jughead are kind of similar now that I think of it… but L is one of those characters that eats and it becomes a sort of cute little trademark of his,” Sprouse recalled. “And Jughead is this sleuth and this kid who in the digests was constantly eating. So in most scenes, Jughead is eating. It’s not a hamburger, though, because we didn’t want to beat fans over the head with this idea that ‘This is the Digest!’ There are very fundamental narrative strings that still attach themselves to this sort of old world Archie Digest and one of the things that’s hardest to integrate into a darker version is this kid going ‘I need hamburgers!’ like Wimpy. We found ways to play with that, and certainly in these last three episodes, the burger-eating has picked up, but he is eating quite a bit. Whether it’s chips, whether it’s hamburgers, whether it’s sandwiches, a lot of the scenes, Jughead is stuffing his face.”

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And how does Sprouse prepare for all of these scenes where he’d be eating? “I sold enough Danimals on those commercials to be able to understand how to consume foods,” Sprouse laughed. “When I know I have a scene where I have to eat a lot, I just won’t eat for a couple of hours ahead of time. I understand that people want to see Jughead eating. I get it! People want to see him eating, so it’s nice in a scene to show him stuffing his face, even if it’s for half a second.”

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