The actor is also responsible for creating his character’s unique communication style: a combo of grunts and croaks.
“It was just something I improvised on a take on the first day, and then Zelda liked it,” says Sprouse. “He’s completely silent in the script, but I was concerned with leaving Kathryn with too little [in our scenes]. She carries so much of this movie, I wanted to help alleviate that as much as I could, and I think that kind of did the job.”
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When he’s not in front of the camera these days, he’s very literally behind it, from a recent chic and furry photo shoot with his former Riverdale co-star Charles Melton — “that was a very funny shoot,” says Sprouse — to his decidedly more snarky Instagram account, Camera Duels. He calls the cynical tone of that one “just a performance,” in which he captures photos of people trying to sneakily capture a shot of him — “may the fastest camera win,” as the Instagram bio says. “I think it’s funny for social media, but it actually doesn’t bother me as much as perhaps the account may suggest,” Sprouse admits.\
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Sprouse says he’d love to get to a place where he can focus more on photography.
“I rarely, if ever, say no to someone asking for a photo, and a conversation is always wonderful,” he says. “I think we design a lot of our interaction with celebrity culture now off of the kind of social currency we can get from it on social media. Celebrity culture has changed a lot since I was a kid, and our interactions with it have changed quite a bit. I think Camera Duels is fun because it puts the power back in my court for that kind of weird interaction, but it’s all lighthearted.”
Sprouse has both acting and photography gigs ahead of him, but after spending nearly his entire life on camera, the 31-year-old particularly looking forward to more work behind it. “In an ideal world, I’d love to have a commercial project and a more independent project and then just focus on photography throughout the year,” he says. “They’re both gig professions, so when an opportunity arises, you sort of have to jump on it and see if it works. As of now, I juggle both.”
