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Riverdale star is joining Lana Condor in
Moonshot, HBO Max’s science fiction film about two college students who sneak onto a space shuttle. Both are headed to Mars because that’s where their significant others are but given that the film is described as a “romantic comedy with a sci-fi twist,” it’s probably safe to guess that those extremely long-distance relationships are not going to last.
Sprouse is, of course, currently best known for playing Jughead on the increasingly (and delightfully) bananas
Riverdale (pictured above). In 2019, he starred in the movie
Five Feet Apart, in which he and Haley Lu Richardson played teens with cystic fibrosis who meet and fall in love in the hospital. He’s also the lead in the narrative podcast