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 called it quits in November 2021, not lengthy after they celebrated their one-year anniversary. But whereas it will have been comprehensible if issues have been bizarre on set between the actors, Stokes and Cline revealed to Entertainment Weekly that their skilled relationship continues 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 relationship 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 numerous instructions, that we’re all the time going to honor the work. That stayed 100% 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’m actually, actually pleased, and I’m very happy with the work this season, and I’m extremely grateful for my costars and their professionalism and simply how gifted every and each certainly one of them are.”

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

Series 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. “Honestly, and this is not simply me: they’re professionals,” Pate mentioned. “They dealt with themselves unbelievably on set, and you’d by no means know that that they had an off-camera relationship. They have been nice. It’s a credit score to Chase and to Maddie, they simply 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 put up 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 may have reunited, however as of January, Stokes seems to be dating singer Kelsea Ballerini (though their reported romance has not been confirmed), whereas Cline revealed she’s residing together with her boyfriend, whose identity she hasn’t shared, in Malibu in a December 2022 interview with The Cut.

Even although they’ve each moved on, it is clear these exes are dedicated to creating the very best present they probably can.

“It’s been a pleasure portraying this enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-lovers storyline,” Cline shared with EW. “It is sort of a journey this 12 months, once more. We actually drove the purpose dwelling of selecting household, and additionally, relationships and friendships are laborious, and generally it will get messy, however you continue to care, you continue to love laborious.”