Cole Sprouse and brother Dylan Sprouse landed loads of twin roles as youngsters, however not all of their auditions had been winners.
Cole, 31, recalled one really disastrous audition when he and Dylan tried out to play Factor One and Factor Two in 2003’s The Cat within the Hat once they had been 7 years previous. “We showed up to this dance studio, and our mom had put us in these stupid Thing One and Thing Two outfits to try and get the gig, and it was horrible,” Cole instructed Males’s Well being in an interview revealed on Monday, February 19.
He remembered the casting administrators telling the boys to “go wild,” noting that was their “only direction” for the siblings “because that’s what Thing One and Thing Two do — they just go apes–t.”
Cole stated he and Dylan proceeded to go “insane” as instructed and that’s when issues bought out of hand. “You tell two 7-year-olds to go wild, and they’ll go wild,” he defined. “We broke a mirror on one of the walls of the dance studio and then somehow ended up in a full-on fistfight, totally unprompted.”
The Riverdale alum referred to as the expertise “one of maybe the worst callback auditions we’ve ever done but one of the ones that stick out the most.” He joked, “Needless to say, we did not get the part.”
Cole and Dylan broke into performing once they had been infants, enjoying Patrick Kelly on Grace Beneath Hearth from 1993 to 1998. The twosome’s huge display debut got here the next 12 months with Large Daddy. The brothers break up the position of Julian within the 1999 comedy alongside Adam Sandler.
Cole’s first huge solo gig was enjoying Ben Geller on Mates in 2000. He had a recurring position as Ross Geller’s (David Schwimmer) son till 2002.
Three years later, Cole and Dylan rocketed to superstardom after portraying twins Cody and Zack, respectively, on Disney Channel’s The Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody. They continued their roles on the following spinoff, The Suite Life on Deck, which ran from 2008 to 2011.
Cole continued to search out success on tv enjoying Jughead Jones on Riverdale from 2017 to 2023. He jumped again into movie after the present’s conclusion, starring in 2024’s Lisa Frankenstein.
“I’m not a big believer in the 180 — when an actor goes from television to film and thinks, ‘I’m going to do something completely different,’” Cole instructed the outlet on Monday of his profession trajectory. “I didn’t really want it to feel like that. I wanted it to be something that felt palatable, something that didn’t feel like a complete departure, but perhaps also something that felt just a little bit different.”
He continued: “But ultimately, at the end of the day, the way the audience perceives your career is out of your control. I just wanted to do something my kid self would love, and [Lisa Frankenstein] was it.”