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 known as it quits in November 2021, not lengthy after they celebrated their one-year anniversary. But whereas it might have been comprehensible if issues had been bizarre on set between the actors, Stokes and Cline revealed to Entertainment Weekly that their skilled relationship continues to be going robust.

“Mads and I have been working together now for 30 episodes, and we made a promise to each other before we even started dating that the work was always going to come first,” Stokes defined. “And that no matter what happens in our personal lives, and the ways that life sometimes takes you in different directions, that we’re always going to honor the work. That stayed 100 percent truthful this season.”

Cline added, “We had a working relationship before we had a personal relationship, and our job from day one has always been to leave the show better than we found it. I’m really, really happy, and I’m very proud of the work this season, and I’m incredibly grateful for my costars and their professionalism and just how talented each and every one of them are.”

The “Knives Out: Glass Onion” actor added that she and Stokes have “always shown up for each other when it comes to work and this show.” That’s one thing that continued in season three, which is about to premiere Feb. 23 on Netflix.

Series cocreator Jonas Pate backed his stars up, telling the outlet that they had been consummate professionals all through filming for the present’s third season. “Honestly, and this isn’t just me: they’re pros,” Pate mentioned. “They handled themselves unbelievably on set, and you would never know that they had an off-camera relationship. They were great. It’s a credit to Chase and to Maddie, they just 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 publish 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 might have reunited, however as of January, Stokes seems to be relationship singer Kelsea Ballerini (though their reported romance has not been confirmed), whereas Cline revealed she’s dwelling along with her boyfriend, whose identification 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 presumably can.

“It’s been a joy portraying this enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-lovers storyline,” Cline shared with EW. “It is quite a journey this year, again. We really drove the point home of choosing family, and also, relationships and friendships are hard, and sometimes it gets messy, but you still care, you still love hard.”