RIVERDALE actor KJ Apa goes topless for a steam room scene as the cast finally start filming season 5.
Series showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa took to Twitter to give fans a behind-the-scenes update after they waited for filming to get underway for months.
He tweeted a picture of the Archie Andrews star, 23, showed off his abs as he got ready to shoot a scene in a steam room.
Roberto wrote: "Annnnnd #Riverdale is back. First scene up of Season 5: Archie in a steam room. Even in a Covid world, some things never change..."
Fans couldn't contain their excitement for the new series as one fan wrote: "Well hello KJ Apa!!! Happy #Riverdale is back!!!"
While another user exclaimed: "Oh my God , Archie looks hot, can't wait till @CW_Riverdale is back on our screens in January 2021 !!! Ps: can't it be already 2021 ya'll !!!"
The season of the CW teen drama will bring the hit Archie Comics-inspired series into a new territory, as the early episodes will focus on the teenage characters experiencing high school prom and graduation.
Back in May, the show's boss explained what they had been able to film before the coronavirus halted proceedings.
Roberto explained: "It's funny, we had shot almost two-thirds of episode 20, which was going to be our prom episode. And we looked at that footage and tried to see if there was a way we could cobble together that episode.
"We actually had shot the prom, where a lot of very dramatic things happen, but we still hadn't shot some big character moments between Archie and Veronica and Betty and Jughead. So we kind of just couldn't do that."
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The new series, which is set to air in January 2021, will jump forward, allowing the characters to return to Riverdale as adults.
Betty Cooper star Lili Reinhart said series is set to jump forward in time at least half a decade.
She revealed: "Season 5 we're actually doing, I believe, a seven-year time jump into the future so we're not going to be teenagers anymore.
"I'm really psyched about it. I think it'll be nice to play an adult. But I also really appreciate that Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa], our showrunner, was like, 'Yeah, let's revamp.' You know, we're not just stuck in high school for seven seasons."
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