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Riverdale is ending soon on The CW, and the cast has wrapped production on the series’ seventh and final season. Cast member and director Mädchen Amick (above, right) has opened up about the emotions of ending the series. Amick has played Alice Cooper, Betty’s mother, since the beginning.
Starring KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse, Madelaine Petsch, Casey Cott, Charles Melton, Vanessa Morgan, Erinn Westbrook, and Drew Ray Tanner, the series is a dark interpretation of the popular Archie comics. In the seventh season, the characters find themselves trapped in the 1950s, when things weren’t as idyllic as they appeared.
Amick said the following about filming the final episode of Riverdale, per Decider:
“Oh my gosh, it was an emotional time. We had our table read a week prior and there was not a dry eye… We had the hardest time reading our way through it. Every single actor, [director/showrunner] Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa] reading the stage directions… and then, “well, okay, we got all of our emotion out at that point.” No, no not at all… The last scene was filming with Lili [Reinhart] and Tiera [Skovbye], my two daughters. So I knew that that was gonna be emotional. But yeah, we started soon as we came together… to rehearse… The next scene was pretty much the entire cast… So everyone else would say goodbye that same day on Saturday. So it was a lot of different emotion.”
Amick also revealed that viewers will not see the return of Alice’s former flame, F.P. Jones played by Skeet Ulrich:
“We have to close the book on that. He was invited back… But then it fell through. I don’t know the particulars on it. But he ended up not coming on board. We were sort of hoping that everybody would come through, and I think that was Roberto’s intention was to have everybody back that he could in that last season. There was an episode that was dedicated to his character, but it didn’t happen. So you know, Falice fans are left wanting something that just never happened.”
Riverdale will air its finale on August 23rd.
What do you think? Have you enjoyed the Riverdale series on The CW? Are you sad to see this show end?
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