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Cole Sprouse says becoming a child star 'saved his life'

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Updated 13:17 13 Apr 2023 GMT+1Published 13:55 9 Mar 2023 GMT

Cole Sprouse says becoming a child star 'saved his life'

The actor opened up about the impact of childhood stardom on the Call Her Daddy podcast

Jake Massey

Jake Massey

Cole Sprouse has opened up about the 'life-saving' impact of becoming a child star.

The actor shot to fame playing Cody Martin on Disney's The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody, alongside his twin brother Dylan.

And while becoming famous as a child can present people with a whole host of issues, Cole said the breakthrough had the opposite impact for the siblings.

Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, the 30-year-old said: "Funny enough, I get asked about Disney a lot because I think a lot of people want to sort of poke the bear and see, you know, how atrocious the channel was.

"By the time my brother and I got to the Disney Channel, we were good. It was a huge boon to us.

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"It was in many ways, a life-saving show. It provided us with an amount of stability and consistency, and routine, that really was needed for my brother and I at the time."

The actor - who now plays Jughead Jones in Riverdale - explained that his mum had mental health issues and his dad was eventually awarded custody.

Cole Sprouse said The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody had a 'live-saving' impact.
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The Zack and Cody gig subsequently felt like 'the golden ticket from Willy Wonka' and 'provided us with an amount of stability and consistency and routine that really was needed for my brother and I at the time'.

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He explained: "I think there's two types of kids within the child acting business.

"There's, like the thespian children who choose to do it, and then there's the working class kids that, in our case at least… I mean it started, really, as a means to put bread on the table."

And while starring in the show provided the family with some much needed cash and structure, Cole concluded that the pay-off might not have been worth it if he and his brother were girls.

Cole said he and his brother were lucky because they were 'young boys'.
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"I think in very many ways, my brother and I were lucky mainly because we were young boys," he explained.

"Like, the fascination when we were younger, at least on the Disney Channel, was like, of Miley and Selena and a lot of these girls, because they were heavily sexualised, which is another huge f**king issue.

"But the fascination which was young womanhood… My brother and I in very many ways went through all of the same trappings, except the lens wasn't on us as tightly, which I'm very, very grateful for."

Featured Image Credit: Call Her Daddy Podcast/YouTube

Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Cole Sprouse

Jake Massey
Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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