- OK, so when I first started auditioning,
I never watched 'Outer Banks' before.
But, once I did actually start doing the audition,
I started watching the show and then I became a huge fan.
Honestly, working on the show is like hitting the lotto
twice because, truthfully, it's a great show,
it's a fun show,
but it really is just hangingvout with your friends,
having a great time.
We're all so close that we really are like a family.
My favorite thing about Cleo is
how powerful she was.
The thing I most loved about her was, like,
in my first audition,
it was the scene where she first kidnaps John B,
and I love that she was, like, spinning a knife.
And I was like, \"That is so cool.\
She just was, like, a badass, like, she just was like,
What are you gonna do?
Like, you can't do nothing about it.
So, I saw that on the page and I was like, \"Oh,
"she's going to be so much fun to play.\"
"I think that people love the Pogues because,
between the six of us,
there is at least one character that everyone can relate to.
Either they know a friend or they are that friend
or wishes they were that friend.
Even watching it, like, from a fan point of view,
it's, like, I wish I was them.
Like, running around, chasing for 100 million dollars
worth of gold.
When we were filming,
I did expect Cleo to join the Pogues,
only because we filmed episode 10 in South Carolina first,
so I already knew that.
However, I will say, when I was auditioning,
there was no talks of that.
I didn't find out til I already got the part
that she was a Pogue.
I was just kinda like, I just kept reading it.
Like, I just, like, I saw it and I was like, \"No, no, there's no way.\"
But then, it was like, I think, what it said was,
“Reunites with the Pogues. One of them now.”
I just kept reading it, I'm like, \"She's a Pogue?
She's a Pogue? She's a Pogue!\"
Like, I never would have thought in a million years,
truthfully, like, just, I never thought that
she's going to be a Pogue.
Never once crossed my mind.
I thought she was gonna be the villain of the season,
like a new villain that they ran into
and maybe she'll come back.
But I never, never did I think that.
Hi, my name is Carlacia Grant
and these are the top five qualities to be a Pogue.
The first thing you need to be a Pogue is loyalty.
Who are we if we're not sticking together?
All of us stick up for each other
and have fought for each other,
and I think that's what everyone loves about the Pogues
is that we stick together.
Loyalty. I think for Cleo's first moment
where she realized that the crew
is all loyalty is episode 10, the container ship.
When she first jumped in that container ship
and she was going off like,
"This is the dumbest thing that I have ever seen.
"Like, you guys are never going to take over that ship."
And they didn't care.
Like, they were willing to die to save their friend,
so that's important.
The second quality you need to be a Pogue is
you gotta have some fight in you.
There's no running away from a battle.
Like, even if you call for help, you know, you get that help,
but you got to keep going for it.
The fight scenes were great.
We did a lot of, a lot of rehearsals.
We really shot those scenes in a real engine room.
So, we did a lot of rehearsals just for safety.
This was a great role where I had to definitely,
worked out six days a week, I added muscle.
Like, I wanted her, when you see her,
like, I wanted her arms to just be like, "You know, what?
"Like, what you gonna do?" And she, you know,
she was willing to take over anybody,
she's willing to take on the boys.
And you know, I love her fight scene with Pope
because it has, like, moments of, like,
is there something between us?
Is she gonna kill him?
Is she gonna trust him?
It's, like, you know, we really toyed with the,
like, the cat and mouse kind of thing.
Pope would disagree, but she
definitely won that fight. [Laughs]
So, the third quality to be a Pogue
is you gotta be willing to die for your friends.
You know, you see us in 'Outer Banks,'
we're always willing to die for something.
We were always in life or death circumstances,
in which we could die trying to save a friend.
You see it with Kiara and JJ,
you see it with Pope and Cleo jumping off a ship.
You see it with Sarah and John B.
We are all willing to die for our friends
and it's all of us together or none of us,
we don't betray each other.
The next quality you need to be a Pogue
is love. In the bottom of all of this is love.
Like, we really do love each other,
love hanging around each other,
and we will do anything for each other.
You know, we really understand where, you know,
each person is coming from.
I mean, for Sarah, she understood that Cleo
had a very tumultuous childhood
in which she had to do certain things in order to survive.
I do hope Cleo finds love. And I think, I mean,
if the fans are paying attention,
there's a lot of hints as to who Cleo
might possibly be getting with.
And I think that will be a great dynamic because, well,
when we talked about it with the creators, it's like,
it's cat and mouse, you know?
Our personalities, me and Pope's personality,
if that's who Cleo ends up with, is very like, you know,
I'm very headstrong, I do what I want,
but he's very, like, by-the-book and Cleo's like,
let's just run and do it and just see
what happens, like, in the end.
Cleo gotta have, she gotta get some love, too.
It'll be cool,
definitely be cool to see, like, more of
a vulnerable side from Cleo.
You know, what would Cleo would be like
in a relationship?
Fifth quality to be a Pogue is good vibes.
Man, we're together, we're having a good time.
We're laughing, we're joking on each other,
nothing is that serious.
Like, when you see us together,
we're having a good time,
we're cracking jokes, we're playing with each other,
we're laughing, we're having a good time. At the core,
you gotta be able to have a good time.
No one can be too big of a stickler around us.
You know, you can't take us too serious.
You definitely have to have a sense of humor to be a Pogue.
The vibes on set are great.
Like, everything that you see on screen
is really how we are, like, behind the scenes.
Truthfully, when we're filming,
the hardest thing to do is not bust out laughing.
Like, especially me playing Cleo
and Cleo is very just not trusting,
you know, she's very like [grunts].
And, like, my personality, I'm always joking and laughing.
Like, sometimes, you know,
there were a few takes where it was like,
"Uh Cleo, you're smiling." [Laughs]
'Cause we would just come up with, like. an improv,
like, in the middle of the scene
and then it'd be funny. Like, it'd be funny.
So, that was kind of like the hardest thing,
but we're all, like, having fun doing this.
Like, it's, sometimes it's like, "Wow,
"this is really a job?" To just go and, like,
hang with your friends on a beach in Barbados
or in South Carolina.
What everyone sees on screen is really
just us, just hanging out together
and I think that's what makes the show, like, so great
is that, really behind the scenes,
we're as good as friends as you see our characters.
What can I say about the future of Cleo
is I don't know anything. [Laughs]
I don't know. Cleo hasn't really had enough time to, I think,
to really bond with, like, Kiara and JJ.
There's definitely, like, something going on with Pope.
So, those are some things that I would like to see,
but as far as what's going to happen, I don't know.