Chase Stokes is stoked that Outer Banks is ending with its fifth season, however not due to any dissatisfaction with the work on the Netflix drama.
In a brand new interview, Stokes defined to Folks why he and his costars are “grateful for the run” of Outer Banks however “prepared for it to be performed.”
He stated, “We would like the story to finish on the suitable be aware, versus [turning] 4 seasons into season 9 and we’re going after aliens or one thing. We wish to lower the chord earlier than we lose the plot.”
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Stokes, who performs John B. Routledge on the Outer Banks, is much more grateful that the present is ending the way in which he thought it might, a consequence to which he credited co-creator Jonas Pate. “It’s stunning to know that though there’s the highs and lows all through the entire seasons, it’s ending precisely how I used to be instructed once I began the present,” he stated.
The truth is, it was Pate who gave Stokes a second shot after the actor thought he bombed his audition. Stokes instructed Folks he broke down in tears outdoors the manufacturing workplace following his tryout, and that’s the place Pate discovered him. “He got here out and he put his arm round me,” Stokes recalled, “and he stated, ‘Hey, I don’t know what you’re going via. I don’t know what you’re feeling proper now, however when you can carry this proper right here again into the room, I promise it’s going to be magical.’”
Trying forward, Stokes says he and his Outer Banks colleagues are a “true household,” and he’ll all the time have love for Charleston, South Carolina, the place the present filmed earlier than wrapping manufacturing earlier this month. However he’s trying ahead to different initiatives, together with the directorial debut he’s making subsequent fall. He stated he idolizes Robert Pattinson for the “artistic dangers” the actor took after breaking out in mainstream fare just like the Twilight and Harry Potter movie franchises.
“That’s the blueprint for me,” Stokes stated. “I wish to present folks that the floppy-haired seaside boy from the Netflix younger grownup present is now 33 years previous. And on the finish of the day, all I wish to do is problem myself.”
Outer Banks, Fifth & Closing Season, 2026, Netflix
