Riverdale star Lili Reinhart shared her feelings about the popular CW series coming to an end.
Reinhart was asked by Variety how she felt about the plan for Riverdale to end with Season 7 in 2023 after playing Betty Cooper for six long years. Reinhart said it is "bittersweet" that the hit supernatural horror crime drama will soon see its conclusion, especially as it is unlikely that the entire cast will ever work together on a single project again.
"There are a lot of feelings," she said. "Bittersweet is the word, because I obviously will miss this group of people that I’ve been through half of my 20s with. We’ll never all be together again working on the same thing, so I recognize that and I think we all do and we all are sad about that."
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Reinhart went on to say that she feels ready to move on to the next stage of her acting career due to the experience she gained while acting on Riverdale. She also said there are a number of projects she and her production company, Small Victory Productions, will start filming once Riverdale wraps up. In any case, Reinhart shared that she and the other cast members will be making the most of the final season of Riverdale and truly spend time together before the show ends.
"It will be a very sad day when it actually wraps, but I do think the show has done so much for all of us and we’re all so ready to show the world what else we’ve got," the actor said. "On that aspect, knowing what’s on the other side is super exciting. I’m incredibly excited for the projects that I’ve been developing with my production company over the last year and a half that we’ll be ready to shoot when Riverdale ends next summer. But going into this final season, I think we’re all like, 'This is our last hurrah, let’s really try to celebrate each other and spend time with each other because we won’t get this again.'"
While the majority of the cast will be leaving the world of Riverdale, the seventh season will not be the last time fans will get to experience some of the characters and storylines. A spinoff revolving around 16-year-old private investigator Jake Chang is being developed for release sometime in 2023. There are also rumors of other Riverdale spinoffs in the works.
All six seasons of Riverdale are available to stream on Netflix. Season 7 does not have an official premiere date, but new episodes will air on The CW in 2023.
Source: Variety