Kiernan Shipka Talks Childhood Crush on Cole Sprouse, Jokes She 'May or May Not Have Kissed' Sprouse Twins Poster
The 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' and 'Riverdale' stars became friends while filming their Archiverse shows
Kiernan Shipka was dreaming of Cole Sprouse long before the two actors ever crossed paths in the Archieverse.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan published on Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Sweethearts star confirmed that her childhood crush was on set when she filmed a Chilling Adventures of Sabrina / Riverdale crossover episode in 2022.
“Yes, Cole Sprouse!” Shipka, 25, admitted. “I had a poster of the Sprouse twins on my wall that I may or may not have kissed.”
Shipka previously revealed that Cole was her first celebrity crush during a red carpet interview with Buzzfeed Canada at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
“Dylan also,” she said, “but, like, sorry Dylan, it was Cole.”
“I feel like as a child I was manifesting all sorts of different things, because Suite Life was my favorite and I know Cole now,” she told the outlet back in September. “And obviously, working with Brenda [Song], I had to, like, block it out otherwise I would be freaking out.”
Shipka and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody alumna Song costar alongside Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis in the upcoming film The Last Showgirl. But as Shipa told Cosmopolitan, she’s known Cole Sprouse for years.
“I met Cole through Riverdale,” she explained. The CW’s dark reimagining of the Archie comics characters existed in the same TV universe as Shipka’s own horror-tinged Netflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and both shows filmed in Vancouver, Canada.
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“I remember when Sabrina was announced, he reached out,” Shipka said. “Vancouver’s pretty small, so all the shows shooting there kind of overlapped in hangouts and we got to know each other.”
“Cole I know now,” she added. “Cole ... we’re locked in. Cole is a buddy and Dylan’s a buddy, so maybe I was doing some version of manifesting at 6. Who knows?”
Shipka also admitted to harboring a crush on Kevin Zegers, star of 1997’s Air Bud, as a kid, but has so far failed to “manifest” a meeting with him.
“I’ve not encountered Kevin Zegers,” Shipka said. “I don’t know what he’s up to. I’d like to know though.”