Chase Stokes‘ profession is barely taking off, however he’ll all the time be happy 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 elements on the platform beginning on Oct. 10.
In season 4, Stokes reprises his position as John B, a free-spirited “Pogue” who’s all the time looking for a brand new journey alongside his tight-knit group of pals — 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 wish 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 wish to present up on display screen and appear to be I do not care for myself, as a result of I believe that’s kind 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 cherished to run in some type” and the shoe has turn out to be his “go-to” for working, he says.
“They’re wildly comfy 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. Fascinating. 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 glad about the chance Outer Banks supplied him, taking him from a kid living in his car to a budding Hollywood star.
“You possibly can’t slap the hand that fed you,” Stokes says. “You possibly can’t discredit or disrespect the factor that gave you not simply the chance, however the means to stay a life that I by no means thought was potential.”
He provides that in te early days of his profession, he all the time felt obsessed with 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 probability — and, 5 years later, he would not change a factor.
“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 internationally, it breaks my coronary heart that some individuals really feel that manner. And I’ll all the time be glad 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 for the reason that premiere of the present in April 2020. Costars like Madelyn Cline and Drew Starkey have gone on to work on profitable tasks 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 an attractive factor. I am tremendous proud,” Stokes says of his shut pal).
Nonetheless, regardless of all their newest spectacular credentials, the principle forged is joyful to assemble as soon as once more to shoot the present that began all of it, Stokes says.
“I believe identical to something in life, friendships change. Individuals go totally different locations, life takes you totally different locations,” he says. “However regardless of the place life has taken us, our secure house 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.