Talk:Part 1 (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)/@comment-4188389-20181012222524

Kiernan Shipka was almost cast as Betty

''Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, executive producer of both Riverdale and Netflix’s upcoming Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, tells EW.com that before he selected Shipka to play Sabrina, he considered her to play Riverdale‘s ponytailed girl next door. “Kiernan was iconic in Mad Men, and I had even thought about her,” he recalls. “I was like, ‘Oh, I wonder if she’d ever do Betty.'”''

''Lili Reinhart went on to win the role of Betty on The CW’s teen drama, but Aguirre-Sacasa kept Shipka in mind when he began developing Sabrina. The show’s casting director mentioned that Shipka might be interested in playing the teen witch, he remembers, and “from the second he said that, for me, it was like, ‘OK, she’s Sabrina. I’m writing this for Kiernan.'”''

https://tvline.com/2018/10/12/riverdale-betty-kiernan-shipka-sabrina/