Cole Sprouse And KJ Apa Tease More Trouble Ahead For Riverdale’s Core Four

Riverdale’s Core Four have been doomed ever since Archie and Betty got caught up in the adrenaline of going immediately following the Black Hood and relieved their sexual tension with a kiss. Jughead and Veronica’s cross-couple payback kiss at Lodge Lodge only further sealed the deal, and right now, with dueling student council campaigns looking like peanuts next to Archie literally cutting off Jughead’s protests against Lodge Industries, we’re seeing a couple-versus-couple divide between the categorize like we’ve never seen before.


"It was just a matter of time before that happened,” KJ Apa (Archie) told MTV News at L.A.’S PaleyFest over the weekend, adding, “But our show is about the friendship between those four and no matter how bad those things get, they’ll routinely be friends.”


It’s true that these four have weathered storms much bigger than what Apa hopes was just a “stupid kiss” in the past, having each supported one another while in treacherous times with their families (including imprisonment, manipulation, and gun violence). Unfortunately, this time, things between the companions aren’t going to clear up overnight, as they so often do in this town. “I think there’s still some stuff they require to uncover and get through before that happens,” Apa said.


Considering they’ve already uncovered the key of Jason Blossoms’s murder and at least one part of the Black Hood saga with each other, this doesn’t sound good. According to Cole Sprouse (Jughead), their problem is going to further explode in back of their order before we'll visualize these four back together.


“Even more than just the couple versus couple, it’s about the Lodges versus the town and Archie’s categorize kind of manipulation from the Lodges … and wanting to be this strong figure for his girlfriend, and Jughead also holding onto the stubbornness and nobility of a town that’s changing and quickly being gentrified and turned into a for-profit prison and attempting to fight for what’s right,” Sprouse said.


While Jughead has been able to allocate Archie alternate points of view in the past, with Veronica’s devilish parents whispering in Archie’s ears, it’s going to take more than an intervention from his lifelong best friend to turn this whole thing around. “Until [Archie] makes his own decision, I think Jughead can lay the groundwork and so they can eventually come around, although this is a pretty big split between them now, and I think it’s going to take a lot of reparation,” Sprouse assessed.


Fortunately, something we don’t have to worry about in the midst of the chaos is rising tension inside the couples. “I know Archie loves Veronica and I know Betty loves Jughead a lot,” Apa mentioned, and although Archie and Veronica are preparing for their parents to go head-to-head throughout a mayoral election, Apa is confident that they’ll continue their “mature” handling of all things parental.


certainly, this is Riverdale, where nothing is ever as it seems, and as we get closer to the end of Season 2, Sprouse teases, “There is slowly although surely a recognition for every person involved that maybe a chess game is being played that they’re not aware of, plus it all comes to a head in the finale episode.”