No Drama For “OBX” Exes Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline

John B and Sarah will nonetheless be very a lot in love in “Outer Banks” season three, however for stars Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline, filming the hit Netflix present’s third season marked their first time working collectively post-breakup. The younger couple referred to as it quits in November 2021, not lengthy after they celebrated their one-year anniversary. However whereas it could have been comprehensible if issues have been bizarre on set between the actors, Stokes and Cline revealed to Leisure Weekly that their skilled relationship remains to be going sturdy.

“Mads and I’ve been working collectively now for 30 episodes, and we made a promise to one another earlier than we even began courting that the work was all the time going to return first,” Stokes defined. “And that it doesn’t matter what occurs in our private lives, and the ways in which life generally takes you in several instructions, that we’re all the time going to honor the work. That stayed one hundred pc truthful this season.”

Cline added, “We had a working relationship earlier than we had a private relationship, and our job from day one has all the time been to go away the present higher than we discovered it. I am actually, actually completely happy, and I am very happy with the work this season, and I am extremely grateful for my costars and their professionalism and simply how gifted every considered one of them are.”

The “Knives Out: Glass Onion” actor added that she and Stokes have “all the time proven up for one another in the case of work and this present.” That is one thing that continued in season three, which is ready to premiere Feb. 23 on Netflix.

Sequence cocreator Jonas Pate backed his stars up, telling the outlet that they have been consummate professionals all through filming for the present’s third season. “Truthfully, and this is not simply me: they’re professionals,” Pate stated. “They dealt with themselves unbelievably on set, and you’d by no means know that they’d an off-camera relationship. They have been nice. It is a credit score to Chase and to Maddie, they only put their heads down and did the work, so good for them.”

Cline and Stokes went Instagram official with their relationship in a since-deleted Instagram submit shared in October 2020 by Stokes. “Cats outta the bag,” he captioned a photograph from their seaside date. In March 2022, there was hypothesis that the actors could have reunited, however as of January, Stokes seems to be courting singer Kelsea Ballerini (though their reported romance has not been confirmed), whereas Cline revealed she’s residing along with her boyfriend, whose id she hasn’t shared, in Malibu in a December 2022 interview with The Lower.

Despite the fact that they’ve each moved on, it is clear these exes are dedicated to creating one of the best present they presumably can.

“It has been a pleasure portraying this enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-lovers storyline,” Cline shared with EW. “It’s fairly a journey this yr, once more. We actually drove the purpose residence of selecting household, and in addition, relationships and friendships are exhausting, and generally it will get messy, however you continue to care, you continue to love exhausting.”