What is going on, guys? Nicole Koch in the Young Hollywood studio hanging out with Rob Raco. What's up, dude?

Not much. How are you?

I'm good. Welcome to the studio, by the way.

Thanks for having me. This is great in here.

Yeah. Do you like my hat?

I do. Little Jughead over here.

And my leather jacket?

Yeah, little Serpent. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm We have to initiate you first.

Ooh. Okay, maybe by the end of the interview then. We'll see how I do. It's terrible. You won't like it.

Oh. Well, now I really want to do it. You're You're getting me interested. Yeah. Well, before we get into Riverdale, let's congratulate you on Supernatural.

Thank you.

That's awesome.

Thank you, yeah. I mean, the show's been on air for so long. Since I was alive, yeah.

So if you could have a superpower, what would you choose?

If I had a superpower in life. Uh I just, like, I really just want to be Batman, which is not a superpower.

Do you have a Batman voice?

No, not at all. My Batman voice would be

You're getting into it a little bit.

Hey, guys, I'm Batman. I don't know.

That's pretty That's pretty convincing. You You got to do something completely different than uh than Christian Bale, you know?

Yeah. For sure. You got to go. He's a bat. He just doesn't make sense. And he's in all black, which is pretty cool.

Yeah. He's Kind of Well, you're in a white T-shirt, but I feel like you're always in like all black all the time.

I know. Right? Booking Joaquin was easy. I just walked in, it was me. That was like, all right. Cool.

Could have said the same thing about Jughead. I wonder if that's why the show's so good. Because you guys are like playing characters that kind of like yourselves, you know?

Yeah. Yeah, a badass outla.

Yeah, that's makes sense. Criminal, maybe? I don't know.

Yeah. Uh, maybe.

You play Joaquin. Yes. You play a Serpent. And a gay character on the show.

Mm-hm.

Did you ever think that the show was going to get as big as it did?

Oh, that's great. Um, look, I knew it was going to have buzz. Like it just It had all this pre-press about being like the next Gossip Girl mixed with all this, and then reading the scripts, like it's really good. Like I joined in the fourth episode, and like I got to see the episodes prior to and I'm like God dammit. I'm hooked on a teen drama, and then I'm joining it. So I'm like I know it's going to have buzz, but then when it hit, and especially when it hit Netflix US, it was like, you know, that thing of same same walking path to go get coffee is different now because there's just 13-year-old girls in the bushes that are like, hey, wait. And I'm like, this is amazing.

So that happens to you a lot?

Yeah. Surprisingly. I never thought that would happen.

You worked pretty closely with Casey Cott.

Casey Cott's a rock star.

AKA Kevin Keller. So, what is it like to kiss him?

Oh, my God. You're a rock star. He's the uh Well, number one, I took uh Casey Cott's on-screen kiss. So, I think first on-screen kiss. That was the uh

That's awesome. Congratulations.

Yeah. It was like, you know, who are you going to kiss first? Me. There you go. Um

Did you have chopstick on?

We loaded up and we also Like it was weird, it it that was the last The episode four kiss, the big fence one, was the last scene of the day, and it was a really, really long day. It started pouring rain and everything. And we were really hungry, and we just ate tuna sandwiches, is the only thing I have. So

Are you guys serious? That is the worst thing you could do.

But, you know, it made it more organic for the kiss, cuz then it was like two men that just really had to do this. So passionate for that. I wanted some of his tuna. He wanted some of mine. You know.

That is so intimate. Wow. That's That's juicy details. I like it. Okay. Good to know. Oh, gross. You're getting all bashful now.

Yeah, I am. I'm shy.

Well, what's your theory on who shot Archie's dad?

I went out to lunch or something with KJ, and I hadn't read uh episode 13, and he was just telling me he was going off about it. And they rewrote it, apparently, like as it was going. I'm really, like, I'm guessing. I have no I don't think it's a Serpent at all.

Okay.

Yeah, I don't think it's a Serpent at all.

So would you bet your money on him being dead or alive?

Oh, I think it's Luke Perry. I mean, I think he's always been alive. Like he's always going to live, you know what I mean? He's just never going to die. He's never going to die.

Wait, I almost forgot. Okay. This is another burning question. I have a map here of North America. Can you please point where Riverdale is? We have no idea. Where is it? Is it even in North America?

Uh, it's You can close your eyes and be like, Yeah, this is I'm going to do an actual guess here. I think it's Let's make it here. Let's make it there. It's right there. I think it's off the coast of New York. I'm not going to lie. I think it's Riverdale Let's make it Bronx.

The Bronx. I like it.

Yeah, let's make it the Bronx.

Awesome. Rob, you're amazing. You're super fun. I'm scared. Like your tattoos. Oh, wait. What was That was awkward. That was awkward. Okay. All right. Bye.