Chase Stokes’ profession is barely taking off, however he’ll all the time be pleased with his Outer Banks roots.
The actor, 32, has had an thrilling fall with the discharge of Netflix’s Uglies in September and the upcoming fourth season of the treasure hunt journey Outer Banks, releasing in two components on the platform beginning on Oct. 10.
In season 4, Stokes reprises his function as John B, a free-spirited “Pogue” who’s all the time trying to find a brand new journey alongside his tight-knit group of buddies — and he additionally occurs to be a particularly match surfer. The look is not essentially a straightforward one to keep up, however staying true to the character means respecting the “tremendous lean” physique he is meant to characterize, Stokes tells PEOPLE.
“I simply need to naturally characterize myself and care for my physique and current that to the world,” he says at a Brooks Operating occasion for the brand new Glycerin Max shoe. “I do not need to present up on display and appear to be I do not care for myself, as a result of I believe that’s form of disrespectful and discrediting to the present and the viewers who’s tuned in.”
Forward of the present’s huge return, Stokes teamed up with Brooks as they launched their new shoe, the Glycerin Max. The partnership felt like a pure match for the actor since he is “all the time beloved to run in some type” and the shoe has change into his “go-to” for working, he says.
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“They’re wildly snug too,” the Inform Me Your Secrets and techniques actor says. “I catch myself strolling round the home in them, and I am like, oh yeah, they’re nonetheless on my toes. Attention-grabbing. Take your footwear off Chase, you are inside.”
Although his profession is taking him to new heights, Stokes says he’ll all the time be pleased about the chance Outer Banks supplied him, taking him from a child residing in his automobile to a budding Hollywood star.
“You may’t slap the hand that fed you,” Stokes says. “You may’t discredit or disrespect the factor that gave you not simply the chance, however the capacity to dwell a life that I by no means thought was doable.”
He provides that in te early days of his profession, he all the time felt keen about discovering his footing on a younger grownup present, seeing as most of the actors who’ve discovered longevity of their careers began equally. When Outer Banks got here alongside, he knew that was his likelihood — and, 5 years later, he would not change a factor.
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“I might by no means mock the present that gave me the chance to have the life that I’ve,” he says. “And as an artist, open doorways and open conversations with random individuals the world over, it breaks my coronary heart that some individuals really feel that manner. And I’ll all the time be pleased about this present and for our showrunners to take an opportunity on a child who had little to no credit on his resume.”
Stokes is not the one forged member whose profession has skyrocketed because the premiere of the present in April 2020. Costars like Madelyn Cline and Drew Starkey have gone on to work on profitable initiatives like 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller for Cline and, for Starkey, 2024’s Queer, which is now working on the pageant circuit (“His expertise is a lovely factor. I am tremendous proud,” Stokes says of his shut good friend).
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Nonetheless, regardless of all their newest spectacular credentials, the principle forged is glad to collect as soon as once more to shoot the present that began all of it, Stokes says.
“I believe similar to something in life, friendships change. Individuals go totally different locations, life takes you totally different locations,” he says. “However irrespective of the place life has taken us, our protected area has all the time been the present. It is all the time been like when the world will get huge and a bit of bit loopy, the world of Outer Banks is like coming again to your mattress after touring.”
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Outer Banks Season 4 Half 1 will drop on Oct. 10 on Netflix, with Half 2 approaching Nov. 7.
