The Kiwi 'Riverdale' star - who plays Archie Andrews in the CW drama - has opened up about the negative aspects of starring in a popular TV show and the weird" experience of having strangers "touch" him in the street.
Speaking to ASOS Magazine, he said: "The weird thing is that it used to be people calling me by my character's name -- now people come up to me in the street and know my name. Some people touch you and I had a hard time with people feeling like they can have that intimacy with me. Experiencing what it's like to be on a huge TV show has given me perspective on people. The attention is strange and not comfortable. You put yourself in their shoes and think, 'If I saw someone like that, what would I do?'"
The 21-year-old hunk - who has starred in the movies 'A Dog's Purpose' and 'The Hate U Give' - has admitted that he has become "self-conscious" since working on screen and finds it "pressuring" having to adapt his style to his alter ego.
He said: "As soon as I started being on camera so much, I became self-conscious, which I never was [before]. "Now I look in the mirror and feel unhappy with...whatever. The fact I have to look a certain way for the show, that can be pressuring.
