10 More TV Storylines Actors REFUSED To Do
6. The Season 3 Flash-Forward - Riverdale
Riverdale's third season ends with a flash-forward showing Archie (KJ Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart), and Veronica (Camila Mendes) out in the woods covered in blood, as they shed their clothes and burn Jughead's (Cole Sprouse) beanie while agreeing to go their separate ways in order to avoid being caught.
Fans were primarily left wondering what happened to Jughead and why he wasn't in the scene, that perhaps the beanie-burning moment was meant to imply his death.
As it turned out, this was simply a result of actor Cole Sprouse refusing to strip off and shoot the scene in the cold.
At San Diego Comic-Con 2019, Sprouse's co-stars revealed that Jughead was indeed scripted to be a living, breathing part of the group, but when he refused to film it, the writers simply changed the scene to imply something untoward might've happened to him.
In co-star Apa's own words, "The only reason why that [scene] happened is 'cause Cole was cold that night."