After enjoying massive success on the Disney-Channel show "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" (2005 - 2008) and "The Suite Life on Deck" (2008 - 2011), both Cole and Dylan decided to take a break from acting.
The two enrolled in college at New York University and Cole said his goal was to "fade out peacefully."
In a 2017 interview with Women's Wear Daily, he explained, "It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they often times rebel in very serious ways. I didn't want to make that public spectacle. So part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully, show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult, but did so with grace and poise and got an education."