- What's up, guys?
I'm here with 'Outer Banks' actor, Chase Stokes.
- Where is he?
I thought I was, I thought I was talking to you,
the 'Outer Banks' girl.
You play Sarah Cameron, right?
Oh my gosh, I'm a big fan.
- Oh my God. - Hi.
I think I'm sweating a lot.
- Sorry, I'm crying a little bit.
- The fans. We've got some pretty insane fans.
They've obviously been supporting us like crazy,
so what's your take?
- [Madelyn] Obviously, the response
has been incredible,
and the fan base is really amazing.
- I went into Target
and within like 20 minutes,
I had people being like,
"Oh my God, it's John B."
It's kind of a surreal experience,
but it's I think rewarding. - Gotta go
"Incognito John Bandito."
- I had a face mask,
I had sunglasses, I had a hat, and a hood on.
- No way. It's the hair, it's gotta be the hair.
- Yeah, you're right.
- [Madelyn] I always had high hopes for the show
and I always thought we had something special
from like the first day of shooting.
But, because there's like this mutual love for it,
it feels like there's this kind of like
connection with them.
I want to talk with them,
and I wanna you know, show them behind the scene stuff,
and I want them to be involved.
- [Chase] The content that we've kind of been
continuing to put out has been pretty obnoxious and funny.
It's fun and gratifying to be able to have vlogged
so much stuff from when we were filming
to be able to give that to people sort of as almost like
season one and a half, so to speak,
so that it's sort of this like development into
continuing to get to know the characters in a way
that I don't think a lot of shows get to do.
- It's great because the image of the show is actually
the friendship between all of us,
and I feel like that's really cool
that we get to share that like unfiltered with everyone.
- [Chase] Yeah.
- How do you feel about Chip Esten's
fandom name Outer Bankers?
- I love you Chip, if you're watching.
But I think the discussion has changed,
and I think the fans are gonna
be honorary Pogues from now on.
So MTV, you've heard it first, you guys are Pogues.
Once a Pogue, always a Pogue.
- So, what do you think
separates John B. and Sarah's relationship
from the cliché 'Romeo and Juliet,'
Montagues and Capulets story?
- It really breaks down
the traditional like teenage relationship,
and really focuses a lot on the connection between the two,
and the intimacy emotionally and mentally,
versus just the physicality of it.
And I think, going back to modern film and television,
and even back into the '90s a little bit,
and the early 2000s,
there's so much over-sexualisation,
and there's so much, you know, want for lust,
and I think with John B. and Sarah,
although you know, there's been some reviews
that are like, "It's a teen show
"where they're half naked all the time",
it's like, right but when you get down to the dialogue,
and the way that these two interact,
there's a lot of emotional connection
that becomes present,
and the communication I think is the most important thing,
and I think in any relationship,
whether you're a teenager or whether you're,
you know, married for 50 years,
or you are trying to figure out whether or not
this can work.
That level of communication
and understanding between the two
is the absolute most important thing.
And I think, you see the
difference between her communication with Topper,
and then Sarah's, you know,
relationship and the communication with John B,
And you see that that becomes truthful
in the way that they communicate,
and it makes the comfortability level that much better.
- [Madelyn] As far as Sarah's concerned,
I didn't want people to like her at first,
because we love a good character arc.
I wanted there to be something about her
that kind of makes you think twice,
which is kind of from the perspective of JB.
Like, he writes her off to begin with,
and then, he kind of slowly is like,
you know maybe she's not a stuck-up as sometimes she acts.
We had many conversations about how you wanted
to try and add more depth to you know, JB,
and like, little things that would be like,
what would make someone fall in love?
Like, what is a quality that we could add to this,
like how could we make this go a little deeper?
And also, to the people who are commenting
on us wearing minimal clothing,
if y'all were there, in 103 degree heat,
and a 1000% humidity,
you wouldn't want to be wearing clothes either.
(laughs)
Is there any scene
that you would want to applaud
any of your fellow castmates on?
- [Chase] Rudy in the hot tub.
It was super rewarding to watch him
'cause as you know, Rudy and I live together so,
to watch him prep for that scene,
and know when it was coming,
and have, you know,
the time and the head space to get there
and watch him give such a phenomenal performance
that day, snaps for Rud.
And then for you in particular, there's one scene,
and I don't think we've really talked about this.
Later in the season when we are stuck in the house,
and you come up the stairs, and you're an emotional wreck,
backstory on that, like Maddie got thrown
a bone like very last minute,
and Jonas was like,
"I need you to be, you know, an absolute chaotic wreck
"you know, after seeing all this."
So, I think watching that take place
in such a short period of time,
and then watching the performance on screen,
I was like, "Yeah, that was believable.
"That was really, a really beautiful scene."
So, hot debate.
The internet is dying to know
where Kie's gonna land.
Is she gonna be Team Pope?
Is she gonna be Team JJ?
- When Kiara turned down Pope,
my heart shattered because
Pope must be protected at all costs.
I love him.
However, from Kiara's perspective,
I understand if you don't feel it with someone,
you don't feel it. - Right.
And in that way, I can definitely see Kiara and JJ
having something.
I feel like sometimes, opposites attract,
and it would be really interesting to see Kiara
kind of like bring JJ down a little bit,
because she does throughout the first season.
She always calls him on his (beep).
- Part of me wants to believe
that Kie and JJ are the type of people
that are going to potentially explore it,
and then hopefully come to find out
that they're better as friends,
because I do think that Pope has a genuine love for Kie
that needs to be explored.
I think it's beautiful, and I think it's obviously something
that we all want to know. I mean, I want to know.
Like, are they compatible?
- Sometimes you don't know.
Like, you know, especially when you're young,
you don't know and you change a lot as a person,
and especially like, things
that go on in the first season,
like there's so much that happens,
and there so much change, that these people,
these teenagers are never gonna be the same.
And so, like, I think it's so relatable that you know,
you would maybe be torn, and you don't know.
And you know, your wants and you know,
the things you need change.
Hypothetically speaking,
how would you prepare for a season two?
- First and foremost, cardio.
'Cause if there's any indication of season one,
and how much I ran, I should probably start running.
I think the other thing too is,
we've created such a great foundation for this universe,
and so, for me, watching the fans reactions,
and watching the feedback that we've gotten,
I want to make sure that I'm on
my A game with all the things
that I've learned from last season,
and to translate that into next season with my performances,
and make sure that these characters
continue to come to life.
- [Madelyn] I think we all learned a lot
in the first season but,
I know that I really really learned a lot,
and there're obviously things
that of course, if I could go back, I would change.
Season two would be my, you know,
chance to feel like I could redeem those things.
And then, I think, get tan.
We gotta get real tan. - Oh yeah.
'Cause we were burnt on that boat.
- Here we go.
Here we go with the tans.