Former-Disney Star Dylan Sprouse Calls B.S. On Joe Jonas' Criticism Of The Company

Earlier this week, Joe Jonas made the news when an open letter he penned was published in the latest issue of the New York magazine, Vulture, a letter in which the former Disney star tore into the company that launched him to stardom, slamming them for restricting his and his brother's creative freedom. Jonas ripped the company for being too overbearing and for putting too much pressure on its younger stars, however his sentiment is not shared by all of the Disney alum.

Jonas' sentiment isn't shared by Sprouse

Jonas moaned that Disney restricted his creativity and refused him and his brothers the chance to branch out musically by dictating their career. Joe recalled with horror the times he was forced to shave everyday in order to retain his youthful appearance and went on to criticise the company for trying to maintain its image as a family company by supposedly putting Vanessa Hudgens on lockdown following her nude photo scandal in 2007. But fellow one-time Disney fledgling Sprouse reckons the Jonas bro is being a Jonas biatch, claiming the 24-year-old must have been too busy enjoying the highs of fame during his Disney days to actually confront the company and tell them "no."

"I think it's bullsh*t that they were being robbed of choice or creativity," Sprouse, 21, wrote on his Tumblr page on Monday, 2 December. "If they wanted to, they could have told Disney 'NO.' Cole and I did this hundreds of times and we ended up all right. The only reason they didn't is because, like many of the people on that channel, I think they fell for the allure of fame. Granted, Cole and I had been acting our entire lives, so we saw it as a means to an end (money making) rather than an opportunity to become successful."

Next page: Cole addresses his Disney days and criticises Joe even further

Dylan, who starred alongside his twin brother, Cole Sprouse, on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody between 2005-2008 and the spin-off The Suite Life on Deck from 2008-2011, continued to rant that rather than blaming this supposedly crooked system on his band's shortcomings, maybe the Jonas' lack of creativity comes down to the fact that they might not be good artists. He continued, "Nowadays artists just assume they have to do what they are told by their proprietors because there is a 'rigid structure to achievement.' It is nothing more than a scheme to rob you of your individuality and capitalize the gain they acquire from such treachery. If you believe this, not only are you incredibly foolish, but you are a BAD ARTIST. Individuality is modernity's most interesting trait regarding artwork and so so many talented individuals realize this."

Dylan and Cole in their Disney heyday

He went on: "You do not have to become something else to be successful. Not only is it not too late for them to redefine themselves now, it was never too late. What that article felt like was: 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, still shame on you.'"

Dylan isn't afraid to speak about his time with Disney and when he does, he hardly sugar-coats it. In an interview he did earlier this year he addressed his and Cole's reason behind leaving the company following the end of The Suite Life on Deck, hardly painting the company as a power whose best interest lies with their employees. His frankness on the subject kind of brings into question the validity of what Joe had to say in his Vulture article, or maybe Disney just valued the Jonas Brothers more than the Sprouse twins and therefore put more pressure on them to succeed? Who knows?

At least Joe finally got that facial hair he wanted so badly