Everything the ‘Riverdale’ Cast Has Said About the Show Concluding After Season 7: The ‘End of an Era’

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Coming to an end. After seven seasons on The CW, Riverdale will be wrapping up its story — and the cast has plenty to say about heading to the finish line.Before the show was renewed for its final season, Cole Sprouse teased that he was ready to move on to other opportunities. “I’m not a creative force behind [Riverdale].

I actually have no creative control,” he told GQ in March 2022. “We show up, receive the scripts often the day of, and we’re asked to shoot.”The former child star also noted that his fellow cast members were ready to “wrap it up with a bow.”Later that year, The CW’s CEO Mark Pedowitz confirmed that Riverdale would be concluding after its seventh season. “I am a big believer in attempting to give series that have had long runs an appropriate sendoff,” he said during a call with reporters in May 2022. “We had a long conversation with [executive producer] Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa] yesterday, who is thrilled by this news, and we will treat the show in the manner it deserves.

We want to make sure it goes out the right way.”He added: “I think they, too, felt that seven years is the right amount. As a fan myself, I do want to do what is right for the show.”That same month, KJ Apa broke his silence about the major transition in his career. “I try not to think about it, because the more I think about it, the more real it becomes,” the I Still Believe star, who has been on Riverdale since its 2017 debut, told TV Line. “I think a lot of us saw it coming, season 7 most probably being the final season.

So it didn’t come as too much of a surprise to me.”Apa joked that there was one aspect of playing Archie Andrews that he wouldn’t mind leaving behind, adding, “I can’t say I’d miss dying my hair every week.