Overview
- The Season 9 premiere introduced Consuelos as billionaire Tripp Hauser, who is swallowed by a whale before a Station 118 rescue.
- His arc spans three episodes, with the second installment airing Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and streaming on Hulu the following day.
- Consuelos says the whale sequence was shot in Long Beach Harbor, with interior scenes filmed inside a movable contraption filled with warm water.
- The actor embraces playing a gleeful antagonist and teases that Tripp’s choices propel a civilian space mission involving Athena and Hen.
- Reactions ranged from Ryan Guzman realizing on shoot day he was rescuing Consuelos to a dismayed response from Consuelos’ mother and a joking text from Riverdale’s creator.