Dylan Sprouse is Sick and Tired of Fans Asking Him THIS Question
Dylan Sprouse was one half of the twinning duo that made Suite Life one of the Disney Channel's most successful series ever, so it's understandably why fans are waiting impatiently for Dylan and Cole to start acting again. Especially since they both took four years off to finish college.
Dylan understands your curiosity, but he has a favor to ask: Can you stop asking him what he's doing now?
"It's a weird thing to be asked 'what are you doing now?'" he wrote in his Instagram caption yesterday. "Normally I wouldn't think twice but it happened 4 times today. I really want to say 'nothing'... I want to say 'I'm enjoying myself by relaxing, traveling, consuming media, and continuing to learn' but the truth is is that unless I'm doing something bigger and better than what I've previously done, people deem it regressive. So I say 'Oh well I'm writing a few scripts and I'm trying to start a brewery in Brooklyn.'"
Dylan points out that he's still acting, but his next project "needs to be good or the character needs to be something different" from what he's done before so, right now, he's busy auditioning to find that role. He also opens up about the pressure to live up to his past work.
"It's actually the only thing I stress about," he says. "What thing do I have to show people I'm doing next? What legacy am I leaving?"
Despite the pressure to figure out what's next, the Suite Life star explains that there's no rivalry between him and his twin brother Cole, no matter how much fans want one.
"They want the two of us to be distinct in a way that begs their allegiance to one or the other," he writes. "I don't blame anyone, it's natural and it IS more fun... Then they ask 'Where's your brother? Is HE still acting?' And I recite 'yup, he's gunna be in Vancouver soon doing a project,'" referring to Cole's new role in the CW's live-action reboot of the Archie comics, Riverdale.
Read Dylan's full Instagram post:
Dylan really has a level-headed way of looking at his fame. That perfect, meaty role he's itching to take on is sure to come along soon enough. Don't forget, though: According to IMDB, Dylan recently finished filming a thriller called Dismissed, in which he plays an honors student who will stop at nothing to get an A. So he definitely hasn't just been doing nothing.
