When "Riverdale" returns to the The CW for its second season on Wednesday, Archie frenemy Reggie Mantle is going to look a little different.
Charles Melton is stepping into the jock shoes originally filled by Ross Butler during the show's first season, after Butler had to leave because of scheduling conflicts due to his part on Netflix's "13 Reasons Why."
"I saw it as an opportunity," Melton told INSIDER of taking the chance to audition as a character replacement. "It's not typical for somebody to replace another character, but based off of this storyline and what the previous actor did, [Reggie] wasn't really established, so it opened up an opportunity for me to put my own spin on things."
Before auditioning for the role, the 26-year-old actor said he watched the show to get a feel for it, but was told during his audition not to do that. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics and the creator and showrunner of "Riverdale," wanted him to do his own thing.
"I went in during the audition process, it was like the second audition, and I had a session with Roberto," Melton said. "I watched the show to kind of get a feel of it, and Roberto was like, ?Don?t watch anything. Don?t watch what Ross [Butler] did. What you?re doing is completely different.? He was steering me to not throw myself off by trying to emulate somebody else."
11-10-2017 - Vidéo