Cole Sprouse is opening up about the reason he thinks his mother Melanie Wright pushed him and his twin brother Dylan into acting at an early age.
The Sprouse brothers were just 12 years old when their Disney show “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” premiered on the channel in 2005.
Cole, now 30, spoke about their childhood and how their mom got them into acting during a candid interview with Steven Bartlett’s “Diary Of A CEO” podcast.
He said, “My mother was, still is, the tortured artist type. She struggled with, in many different ways, her place in the world. “I think she found a tremendous amount sense of self-identity through motherhood, and tried to turn it into a profitable business at the same time, which for identical twin boys going into acting is [an] economic loophole — there are labor laws that can be incredibly profitable, so that’s what she did.” READ MORE: Cole Sprouse Recalls The ‘Cringey’ Way He Lost His Virginity At 14, Admits It Was ‘Really Hard’ To Move On From Lili Reinhart He added: “It made a lot of financial sense for her to put us into acting.
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