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Riverdale’s graduating class says goodbye to high school and hello to their mid-twenties in season 5 of Riverdale.
Is that Jughead, Betty and Veronica mourning at a grave?
Cast are doing table reads of season 5’s third and fourth episodes today, zooming in from their self-quarantines in Vancouver.
Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacassa is in Vancouver, too.
Cast: KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, Camila Mendes, Madelaine Petsch, Vanessa Morgan, Casey Cott, Charles Melton and Madchen Amick.
The show managed to complete 19 out of 22 episodes in season 4 before the pandemic shut down production in mid-March.
But not the time jump, so we’ll get to see that plus Prom, newly-written episode The Preppy Murders and Graduation at the start of season 5.
Related: Prom & Preppy Murders? Cast Table Reads Riverdale 5×01 & 5×02 From Their Vancouver Quarantines.
The time jump:
We’re doing a seven-year time jump into the future. We’re not going to be teenagers anymore.I’m psyched about it. It’ll be nice to play an adult. But I also appreciate our showrunner Roberto…yeah let’s revamp so we’re not stuck in high school for seven seasons. 30-year-olds in high school. – Lili Reinhart told Jimmy Fallon in August.
Related: Lili Reinhart Talks Prom, Graduation & Beyond. Riverdale Starts Filming Season 5 Mid-September in Vancouver.
Season 5 target filming dates: September 14th to May 1st, 2021.
I have no idea what to expect in this Covid world of shooting. I hope it doesn’t take the fun away from a day on set. — Lili Reinhart to Jimmy Fallon.
How are the cast handling their 14-day quarantines?
Casey Cott checks on KJ Apa in quarantine.
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Casey Cott thought they need to get KJ Apa out of quarantine.
He seemed to be posting from his bathtub?
Is Casey Cott already out of quarantine?
Camila Mendes leaving for Vancouver.
What did the cast do during the long hiatus?
Cole Sprouse, who quarantined with KJ Apa in Los Angeles, confirmed the split from Lili Reinhart.
He took a social media break earlier this summer.
After he’d joined the Black Lives Matter protests in L.A. and been arrested.
Related: Riverdale’s Cole Sprouse Arrested at Peaceful George Floyd Protest in Santa Monica
KJ Apa split his head open while filming the Michael Bay-produced pandemic movie Songbird with Sofia Carson in L.A. The movie wrapped in mid-August.