Riverdale Casts Exit Interview Reveals None Of Them Enjoyed Being Sexualized

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This is also a show where every young character is sexualized. It’s a given for the genre, but it’s transgressive because of the source material.

Petsch: Being in a female-female relationship on the show was interesting because Vanessa and I were the biggest supporters of having more sexual encounters on the show. And I feel like some people were scared of that. In season three, she and I just decided with a director to put in this sex scene that wasn’t there. And that, I think, broke the barrier of allowing us to be more like the other couples on the show. I felt it was really important for our particular relationship.

 

 

And Riverdale has an equal-opportunity gaze. The sexualization doesn’t just affect the women.

Apa: I’ve been through a lot of **** with that. It can mess with your head a little bit. At first, as a young child, which is what I was, I thought it was cool — you almost want the opportunity to be shirtless. I was like, “Yeah, let me take my shirt off. Boom!” And then you gotta consistently stay in incredible shape. It takes a toll. Even saying that I didn’t feel comfortable I had a hard time with. I thought people would be like, “Why not? Just ****ing do it, bro.”

Petsch: The other day, I had to do a lingerie shoot and I felt so shitty about my body I cried. I tried on six different outfits and eventually found something that made me feel remotely okay.

Reinhart: It’s been trippy to grow up on this show and constantly see images of myself from when I was 19, 20, 21. My body does not look like that anymore. And suddenly this season we’re 17 again. I’ve looked at myself in the mirror and laughed at myself a couple of times. I don’t look like I’m 17, and I’m okay with that! But it’s this weird feeling, like you have to fit yourself back into this box that you presented to the world when we first stepped into these characters. Just being an actor in general, you feel like you’re holding yourself to a consistent standard of I must not age, and I must continue to look like I did.

Mendes: We need to say Roberto is always very understanding of us, and there’s nobody forcing us to do anything. It’s just the nature of being on a teen show.

 

 

https://www.vulture.com/article/riverdale-cast-exit-interview.html

 

 

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6 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

Mendes: We need to say Roberto is always very understanding of us, and there’s nobody forcing us to do anything. It’s just the nature of being on a teen show.

Always feels so slimy when this is tacked on at the end (similar to Sydney Sweeney & Sam Levinson)