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***Warning: Season 2 spoilers. So go catch up and come back***

Riverdale was forever changed in season two when serial killer The Black Hood started tormenting the neighbourhood.

As Betty tried her best to sleuth out who it could be, it turned out that the truth was far more close to her – and at the end of the season, it was discovered to be her father, Hal Cooper.

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, Lochlyn Munro, who plays the twisted and dark character, has revealed that he was excited to take the complicated role on – but admitted there was one big snag about playing the town tormentor.


The Black Hood was season 2’s Big Bad – but is he gone forever? (Picture: CW)

‘It’s a little boring in prison!’ he joked. ‘You know, that’s the only thing I didn’t like about being bestowed the Black Hood, is that I knew it was going to segregate me from everything the town does now.



‘That’s the only crappy thing about being the Black Hood. It’s more fun to play that character, it’s more fun, but it doesn’t give me a lot of screen time as of yet!’

Lochlyn previously revealed to us that the identity of The Black Hood was so under wraps that even he didn’t know he was the culprit until the day the revelation scene was shot.

As Hal sat watching old home movies, he revealed to wife and daughter Betty and Alice that he was abused as a child, and as a result was left with a ‘darkness’ that eventually manifested itself into becoming a killer.

‘When I found out I was playing the Black Hood, I have a feeling now like, this would be such a cool character to play, but I don’t know how much I’m going to play it. That was the only downfall of being the Black Hood, but at least it’s got some depth,’ he said.

Hal’s complicated past turned him into a serial killer (Picture: CW)

‘That was the only thing for me with Hal up until then, he was just kind of around and not doing much other than getting railroaded by Alice all the time.’

However, it was his relationship with Betty that allowed Hal to get more screen time, and it was this relationship that Lochlyn hopes can be explored more should he ever be released from prison.

‘There was this one episode. Season one, episode five, and it happened to be the episode that Madchen (Amick, who plays Alice) wasn’t in. I had all these nice scenes with Betty around the car where I explain to her about her grandfather, and about them being brothers and stuff like that,’ he explained.

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‘That was my favourite episode because it was something different, like I actually had this nice relationship with Betty and that was it. You know? I thought we would do more, like have them fixing the car, because that was in the comic book and she was always that tomboyish girl in the comic book.



‘I was hoping that would happen with Hal’s character, but it just never did, it just kind of …I was just always there to be angry at something! Never really quite understood why, but maybe that was why.’

Riverdale season three returns 12 October on Netflix.

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