Having found success with one Riverdale hunk (well, his penis), I thought I'd check on the others. How about Cody Kearsley, who actually did play one of Kevin Keller's boyfriends: Moose Mason.
You remember Moose from the comics: stupid and muscular (the two usually went together in the media of the day), and so insanely jealous of his girlfriend Midge that he pulverized any guy who even glanced at her.
In the kinder, gentler 1990s, he was modified to be less violent, and his "stupidity" was explained as undiagnosed dyslexia.
On Riverdale, the Moose-Midge relationship is troubled by mutual cheating, Moose with Kevin and Midge with Fangs Fogarty of the Southside Serpents. After Midge is murdered, Moose dates Kevin for awhile, but is afraid to be outed as bisexual. Eventually he leaves town, and Kevin moves on to the also-bisexual Fangs before getting dumped for Toni, Cheryl's ex girlfriend, and Moose come back to town...well, basically everyone hooks up with everyone. It's a soap opera, after all.
Let's go back to Cody Kearsley.
Cody belongs to the Métis people, descendants of First Nations members and French settlers from the early days of European colonization. There are 587,000 Métis in Canada, and a smaller number in the U.S.. Like many First Nation people, they have a tradition of Two-Spirits, adding 2S to LGBTQ and celebrating Gay Pride.
Can you see the French origin of the days of the week? (Hint: lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche)
Cody actually grew up in Oliver, British Columbia, in the Sylix Okangan Nation that comprises seven communities on the Canadian-U.S. border. He attended the Southern Okangan Secondary School, then moved to Vancouver to complete his senior year.
He was active in community and school theater, starring as Bobby Child in Crazy for You and Danny Zuko in Grease.
After his graduation in 2009, Cody moved to L.A. to attend the EDGE Performing Arts Center on a dance scholarship, and then spent three years at the Theater of Artsr. He worked mainly in theater, as his work visa did not permit tv or movie roles.
In 2015 he returned to Vancouver and started a theater company that specialized in the work of Metis artists. He starred in Borealis (2016), a short about a guy who returns to his small town to convince his buddy Vikram (Rajen Toor, who is actually from Oliver) to travel through northern British Columbia with him.
Then it was back to Los Angeles with a new work visa, a shy selfie, and Riverdale (2017-22)
More after the break. Caution: Explicit.
