Actress reveals that Dylan Sprouse cut “mean joke” from the series

During her appearance on the Back to the Best podcast, the actress Kim Rhodesresponsible for playing Carey Martin, Zack and Cody’s mother in the Disney Channel series “Zack & Cody: Twins in Action”, revealed that, at the time of recording, Paste It is Dylan Sprousethe protagonists, always protected their co-stars, despite their young age.

In the conversation, the actress highlighted a moment where Dylan refused to make a joke in the script that talked about her character’s weight, facing the production — even though she was only 12 years old.

“I got pregnant while I was on the show, so of course the writers’ response was to start writing jokes about my weight. One of my favorite memories is of a scene where the script called for Dylan to make a mean joke about my weight. , and every time we rehearsed he just skipped that line. It was in the middle of a bigger dialogue, and he kept skipping and skipping the joke.”

Rhodes states that, at the time of the recording, which was attended by an audience, Dylan continued skipping the joke without fear: “The executive producer stopped the recording and shouted: ‘Cut! Dylan, make the joke’. And he replied: ‘I would never disrespect any woman like that, least of all this woman. When you write something funny, I’ll say it.”

Kim ended his memory by stating that “They [os irmãos Sprouse] They took care of everyone on set, it wasn’t just me… I was really impressed by the fact that they, still so young, understood that it was part of their job to make sure everyone was comfortable on those recordings.”

The “Zack & Cody” franchise was one of Disney Channel’s biggest successes of the 2000s. In addition to “Twins in Action”, which aired from 2005 to 2008 and was nominated three times for an Emmy, the production also received the spin-off “Zack & Cody: Twins on Board” (2008-2011), and the film “Zack & Cody: The Movie”. All productions are available on the Disney+ streaming platform.