They were the same boy. Literally.
Dylan and Cole Sprouse were born on the same day in 1992, in a town in Tuscany, Italy, and became Zack and Cody, the Disney Channel twins an entire generation watched grow up in a fake hotel.
When the series ended in 2011, the world assumed they would follow the same path. That was not the case.
Cole stayed in acting. Since 2017, he has played Jughead Jones in Riverdale, the series that made him an adult and recognizable face on television.
Dylan did something no one expected. He founded All-Wise, a meadery in Brooklyn. He traded film sets for fermentation barrels.
And his personal life took an equally unexpected turn. In July 2023, he married Hungarian model Barbara Palvin. This year, they announced that they are expecting their first child.
Cole, meanwhile, has been in a stable relationship with model Ari Fournier since 2021.
Two identical twins. An identical childhood in front of the cameras. And two adult lives that could not be more different.
Sometimes growing up means no longer being the other’s reflection.