-Guys, you know my next guest from the huge Netflix show
"Outer Banks." Season two is streaming right now.
Please welcome Madelyn Cline.
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Hi! Oh, my goodness.
-Hi! -Hi, bud.
-How are you doing? -I'm doing great.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for -- for being here.
-Thank you for having me.
-You're in Europe right now, and are we allowed to say why?
Or is this a secret movie? -It's not.
It's not a secret anymore, but, yes, I am in Europe and I am --
I am filming the sequel to "Knives Out."
-Yeah!
-I'm very, very excited about it.
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-Now, how is that going?
-I'm just going to be completely honest with you.
It is the most mind-blowing,
terrifying experience ever.
-Why?
-[ Laughs ] It's -- Because I walk on --
You know how you have moments in life
where you just look around and you look at life
and you're like, "How in the [bleep] did I get here?"
-Yeah. -I feel very lucky,
but it's just, like -- I walk on the set every day
and it just feels like a miniature existential crisis
because I'm, you know, I'm working with people
that I've looked up to for my entire life,
and I'm getting to work alongside them,
and they're phenomenal people.
But it's a bit of a...
-Yeah. It's a trip.
-It's terrifying, but it's also incredible.
It's super amazing.
It's the experience of a lifetime.
-Now, being in Europe, do you get any down time?
Do you get to be a tourist or anything?
-You know, there obviously are limitations because of,
you know, the pandemic, but I've tried to.
You know, I've gone snorkeling a couple times.
But I tried to go snorkeling without fins on my feet,
and that didn't work out because midway through it
I realized that I was sinking.
-So you just have a tank strapped to your back
and you're just sinking, yeah. That's pretty frightening.
That'd be more scary than filming a movie, yeah.
-No, I was absolutely sinking, and I was panicking for sure,
and I found, like, a lone rock
that didn't have any sea urchins on it,
and I kind of just stood there
and contemplated my life decisions,
and I realized that I didn't think it through fully.
-Yeah. -But it's --
You know, so far, it's good.
You know, I feel like it's a metaphor for life
if you all just be prepared.
You know, wear fins.
[ Laughter ]
-That's great advice. "Wear fins."
-Please, just wear fins. -Just please.
I want to talk about "Outer Banks"
because this show couldn't be bigger right now.
It's on Netflix. It's trending all the time.
Can you set it up and who you play on the show?
-Sure.
I have been lucky enough to be cast in this show,
and I have the absolute pleasure
of playing the role of Sarah Cameron,
and she is what we call a "kook princess."
She's from a family who is incredibly well-off,
and she ends up falling in love with John B,
who works as -- who works for her dad on his boat.
And she ends up kind of falling in with his group of friends,
and then thus ensues all of their adventures --
their crazy, wild,
sometimes really hard-to-fathom adventures.
And it's great fun.
-There's so many twists,
and the Internet is obviously obsessed with it.
They have specula-- They have all these theories.
Do you ever read these theories and go, like, "Oh, no,
that's not actually happening," or do you go like,
"That's a good idea. I'll tell the writers"?
-Sometimes.
Sometimes I do read the theories because I'm always interested
to see what people think, what, like, our audience feels.
-Yeah.
-And one theory that I've always been really fascinated by
is if JJ and Sarah are siblings.
-Yes. -Because --
And the whole thing behind it is that JJ
and Sarah's mom was having an affair with Ward or Luke.
And either because Ward was greedy
or because Luke, you know, has addiction issues,
like, she just left.
And so I feel like that would be very juicy to play out,
to see JJ and Sarah's reaction to being like...
-Yeah. -"Oh. Oh."
-But not true. But we don't know.
-But I don't know. I mean, who knows.
I'm not a writer, but I'm kind of --
I don't know. Maybe I'm hoping our writers will see this
and maybe think it's an interesting idea.
Hey, guys!
-But, Madelyn, you are Sarah on the show.
I want to talk about -- maybe go through
some of the Internet theories
and just see if you have a story behind them,
if any of them are true.
Do you mind? -Okay, yes, let's do it.
-Sarah -- Your character, Sarah, and John B --
I also love his name's John B.
Sarah and John B -- -Not John.
-I just -- Yeah, not John. It just very -- It feels --
-Jonathan.
-Yeah, anything. Johnny.
Just John B, I just think is --
-Johnny Boy.
-You have the now-famous kiss in the rain
from season one that everyone loved,
but that's not how it was supposed to happen.
Is that correct?
-It wasn't -- No, it wasn't supposed to happen.
It was just supposed to be --
We were just supposed to kiss in normal weather.
And -- At least the way it was written.
-Yeah.
-And then we were filming late in the summer in the South,
and usually --
So, I'm from where we shoot, and usually in the summer
around that time, these, like, massive thunderstorms
or rainstorms will just come in in the late afternoon,
and that happened this day, and we were like,
"Okay, we'll just wait for it to pass."
And we took a look at the radar and we saw that it was gonna
be happening for the rest of the day,
and so we either called off the day or we shot through it.
And we kind of had this moment
where we were going through our options and we just paused
and we were -- We looked at each other and we were like,
"Oh, wait. This could be really cool and romantic."
And so, first, we ran it by the crew to make sure
they were okay with working in the rain.
-Yeah. -Because not everybody
is super-stoked about, you know, maybe standing in the rain
and holding a boom mike for the next seven hours.
-Oh, yeah, you think? Yeah. Exactly.
-Yeah, and so -- But they were cool with it.
They thought it was a cool idea,
and it ended up being this super-serendipitous thing
where it ended up kind of being like "The Notebook"
and it was just really cool. -Yeah, exactly.
I try to just kiss my wife outside
just hoping for any inclement weather.
Even if -- Someone drives by a mud puddle
and splashes us, I'm like
"Just kiss me! Hurry up! It'll be romantic."
Trust me. This will be romantic. Yes."
-"Put on Marvin Gaye!"
-Exactly. Yeah, exactly...
The Internet's obsessed with the way
everyone on the show says the name "John B."
John B.
What is the key to delivering a good "John B"?
-Oh, God, this has been a running joke
since before John B was even cast.
So we had -- We had, like, swimming rehearsals.
They were like, "We just need to make sure
that you guys are buoyant enough to be on the show."
And we had to film the rehearsals for our director,
and, you know, they were like, "Be in character."
And I was like, "John B!"
And then I just, like, kind of belly flopped into the water.
It was really -- Like, it just wasn't --
It wasn't it at all. -Didn't sell it. Yeah.
-So I think it's really just about, like,
the commitment and the passion, you know?
You're just like, "John B!"
Or, you know, you just go straight for it. "John B."
-John! B! -You know, I want to hear you --
I want hear, like, how, you know...
-How I would say it?
-Yeah. Imagine you're a Pogue.
-Oh. I do imagine I'm a Pogue.
[ Laughter ]
I'd be like... "John! John!"
John B!
-"John B." -Yeah, John.
-So you're a Frenchman. -John! John!
-Jean. -Jean B! Jean B!
-Jean B! -I would play -- I'm French.
Jean B!
Sacré bleu! Jean B!
-Jean Baby. -Jean Baby.
"John Baby."
Yeah. All right.
Something happens in the beginning of this season.
I don't want to spoil anything,
but it's around the second episode.
And fans are going nuts because Jean B.,
when he's in the scene with you,
accidentally, they think, says that you -- says your real name.
Calls you "Mads" in the scene, as opposed to Sarah.
[ Laughter ]
I'm just saying. -What?!
-What?!
-Did you -- Wait. Were -- Huh?
-Yeah, you're lying --
He's concerned, and he's like...
-Dead.
[ Gasps ]
-That's a major spoiler, but, yes.
And -- Oh, my gosh. -I'm really sorry.
-That's the most major spoiler of all time.
What's "Knives Out 2" about?
[ Laughter ]
-I don't know. Ask Tom Holland.
[ Laughter ]
-Exactly. No. Wait.
So, he's concerned, and he goes...
I know. You're in so much trouble.
-I'm in so much trouble. -Just stop talking.
-Do you remember him calling you by your real name
and does he call you "Mads"?
-You know what? I wouldn't --
So, honestly, that day, I don't remember much
because it was a Monday,
and I'm pretty sure, if i remember correctly,
it was the Monday after we were celebrating the PCAs,
and I had a little hangover -- a headache.
-Yeah, of course, yeah. -And so I was --
I felt very -- You know,
I was just laying on the fake medical table and sleeping.
But I actually did kind of nod off a couple times,
so I don't remember a whole lot about the day.
It's kind of all a blur, but, you know, Jonas,
our director, is not unknown to give us notes,
like, very personal notes. -Uh-huh.
-And try to get us to, like -- So I don't --
It's definitely well within the realm of possibilities.
And I'd have to go back and look now because I had no idea.
-Do people call you Mads? -Yes.
-Yeah.
-Mad. My mom calls me "Hey, you."
-"Hey, you" is good, yeah.
-Hey, you! -I love that, yeah.
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Madelyn Cline in "Outer Banks."
Take a look at this.
-You lost the only money we had!
You almost got us both caught, if not shot!
How is that okay?!
-You know what? I am proactively admitting
that I screwed up and I'm willing to work on it --
-Proactively admitting doesn't do anything!
I have lost my father.
I have lost my brother.
I have lost my little sister!
I can't lose you.
-Okay. It won't happen again.
-I'm calling the shots now.
And to start, I'm driving. -Okay.
-I can't drive stick.
-[ Laughter ] -Okay.
-That's right. Madelyn cline. -"I can't drive stick."
-Season two of "Outer Banks" is streaming now on Netflix.