Riverdale's Camila Mendes Reveals What Made Her Fall In Love With Co-Star Charles Melton

Move aside, Cole and Lili — Riverdale's other cutest off-screen couple are having a moment.


A week immediately after Camila Mendes and Charles Melton's stylish date night at the Met Gala, the pair are serving up more relationship objectives on Instagram. Ahead of the L.A. Premiere of The Sun Is Also A Star on Monday (May 13), Mendes took the possibility to congratulate her man on the film, which he stars in alongside Yara Shahidi.


"I remember the day @melton informed me about this project," Mendes started her lengthy post. "We were still just companions then. He hadn’t even been cast however. They hadn’t even began casting. All he notified me was 'I'm planning to play this role, I am Daniel Bae.' Aside from having the largest heart out of anyone I know, his passion and tenacity are segment of the reason I fell in love with him. Watching him throw his entire heart and soul into this story of love taught me a lot about the sort of person he is."


The actress went on by sharing some of the things she admires about her boyfriend and co-star, whom she began dating last year.


"I'm probably sharing also much, however before we dated he’d often get irritated at me for attempting to bring logic into love," she continued. "He taught me that love doesn’t have an explanation, it either exists or it doesn’t. It was his vulnerability not only as an actor, nevertheless also as a gentleman, taught me that valuable message, one that is so relevant to this film. I'm so overjoyed of you Charles, and thus grateful to have witnessed this cute journey of yours."


The Sun Is Also a Star — which opens on May 17 and is based on Nicola Yoon's young adult novel of the same name — stars Melton as hopeless romantic Daniel Bae. Soon after finding out his crush doesn't believe in love, Daniel gives her 24 hours to convince her otherwise. Luckily, it looks like Melton won't have to pull off the same herculean feat in real life — he and Mendes seem to believe in love wholeheartedly, and they're not afraid to show it.