![]() Costume designer Emmie Holmes worked with Bailey to establish a beachy, boho wardrobe with just enough rock ‘n roll to avoid cliche. Part of that delicate balance was assembling a look for Kiara, who comes from wealth-she’s an imposter, depending on your perspective-but blends in with the working-class Pogues. Because sometimes you do talk about heavy things in a lighter way.” “We're still talking about it we're just making light of it. “It's nice to have a fun show where we're also like, ‘But the class divide is real,’” Bailey says. There was a balance she wanted to strike: Kiara needed to have the light, airy nature that makes Outer Banks soapy and entertaining, without detracting from the story's serious themes of privilege, loyalty, and money. She'd improv bits of the script-just a word here or there-to better align it with her understanding of Kiara. ![]() She’d propose a line or introduce a dynamic to the writers, and they’d hear her out every time. We're all our own entity.”īailey was continually surprised by how much say she had on set. And so we connect because we're all solo. But I think it's really interesting to see a group dynamic where the thing that we have in common is not having anything in common. “We have very different backstories and all of that. “If you look at all of our characters, we're all super different,” she says. From there, bonding with the guys was practically effortless. Shortly after booking the job, she wrote a short story for how Kiara met each of the Pogues: JJ and John B. “It felt exactly how it should have,” Bailey says.Īnd so Kiara became her pet project. She nailed a can on her first shot, in true Kiara style. After several failed attempts, the boys let Bailey have a go. Pankow, Daviss, and Stokes (John B.) brought slingshots to strike cans off the fallen trees left in the wake of Outer Banks’s fictional Hurricane Agatha. She stayed in Charleston, spending her first night with the Pogues on the set of John B.’s house, warming up to her new family. We just aren't finding what we're looking for’? It was insane. “Or are you about to tell me, 'Hey, sorry. “‘Does that mean it’s me?’” she recalls asking. But it wasn't immediately clear what that meant for Bailey. The casting team walked in, thanked the other hopeful for coming, then dismissed her. Afterward, she sat in the waiting room with another almost-Kiara, the two of them quiet and anxious. Bailey had the opportunity to read with the cast during her callback, though she was the only actress who’d yet to book a role. Jonathan Daviss, Madison Bailey, and Rudy Pankow attended the premiere of Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This in Los Angeles prior to Outer Banks’s release. And immediately got a callback and then flew to Charleston and booked it that day.” ![]() ![]() “And my agent was like, "No, you should anyway. Days passed before the casting directors sent out a re-release, asking anyone who’d already auditioned not to audition again. But after her first audition, she figured the showrunners didn't feel the same. She felt as if the writers had transplanted her own personality into a fictional character and swapped out their names. ![]() Mercedes, and Black Lightning, had gotten her hands on the Outer Banks script and loved it-Kiara’s character in particular. Bailey, a North Carolina native who’d previously booked gigs in Constantine, Mr. She’s true to herself-a partner, not a side piece.īut this seemingly perfect casting almost didn't happen. She doesn’t pretend to be a Cool Girl among beer-guzzling, greasy-fingered men. They're known as the Pogues, working-class residents from the south side of the OBX, named after pogies or "throwaway fish." Bailey's Kiara is a refreshing badass, a warm-hearted, open-minded, eco-conscious equal whose “one of the boys” status never bottoms out into sexism. The idea of anyone else playing the role on Netflix’s sunny teen drama Outer Banks seems laughable after watching her playful jabs and heart-to-hearts among the four men who fill out her crew. ![]()
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