Admit it: You watch Riverdale, you love Riverdale, but no matter how many times you watch, you can’t help but wonder: how close were Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) and her brother Jason Blossom (Trevor Stines)?
Family love? “Twincest?” Actually, it’s a lot more of the former and not so much of the latter. We asked Madelaine Petsch about this very subject on our recent visit to the Riverdale set in Vancouver.
“A lot of people ask me all of the questions about incest and sexual or romantic feelings about her brother, and none of that is the case, audience, none of that!” Madelaine assured. “That being said, my parents [Cheryl’s] didn’t show me love growing up. I didn’t have support from any other person besides my brother. He was the only person who cared about me, loved me, showed me love.”
“Growing up, we have love coming from all angles in our lives — personally, I did, so I understood it at a very young age.” Madelaine explained about her own personal experience. “Cheryl never got that. She never had friends. So yesm they’re twins, so they’re close in that right, but it’s more that he was the only person who ever unconditionally loved her. The loss of him — and she thought he was her soulmate, because he loved her, and that felt like a very exclusive thing for them because she’d never been loved by anybody else. So it’s definitely a brother/sister relationship; they’re just extremely close because they have to be. They had to be allies behind the closed doors of their house,” she explained.
Do you buy it? Were the Blossoms big readers of Flowers in the Attic? For now, it seems that according to the actress, that relationship was purely a family love. Still creepy, but nothing too extreme.
Riverdale airs Thursdays at 9PM on The CW. See some photos from the next new episode here!
