Discovering their fortunately ever after collectively. Outer Banks followers have seen JJ Maybank (Rudy Pankow) and Kiara Carrera (Madison Bailey) develop from finest mates to a lot extra.
The hit Netflix sequence, which debuted in 2020, is targeted on a gaggle of youngsters who by accident discover themselves on the middle of a harmful treasure hunt. All through the present, viewers realized extra in regards to the social divide between the rich Kooks and the working-class Pogues as properly.
When JJ and Kiara’s shut bond was launched throughout the first two seasons, followers have been fast to level out the chemistry between the couple.
On the time, Pankow revealed that he wish to see JJ and Kiara get collectively. “However I feel the tip recreation, the tip recreation of the OBX, I can see JJ and Kiara being like, ‘All proper there’s one thing right here,’” he solely informed Us Weekly in April 2020. “As a result of it begins out with JJ saying that he had tried getting with Kiara. So, who is aware of?”
In the meantime, Bailey gushed in regards to the connection between the duo, telling Us in December 2021, “I’m on the sting of my seat with the place the writers are going to take this. I’m actually so obsessed with Outer Banks. I really feel like they will’t go flawed with the story line wherever, and if me and Rudy teamed up as actors, I feel [it] can be actually sick.”
Forward of season 3, creator Josh Pate confirmed that JJ and Kiara can be “the massive romance” of the season.
“In a while within the season, virtually an entire episode is dedicated to that relationship. It was a giant card we actually wished to play and make it a giant factor,” he shared with Leisure Weekly in February 2023. “We didn’t wish to do it too quick, so we thought season 3 could be an excellent time to discover that, and I’m actually happy with the way in which that got here out. It’s a few of my favourite scenes of the entire season.”
The screenwriter famous that “inside struggles” would create points for the pair. “So it gained’t be like a romantic rival [coming between them], no less than not for some time, however extra like JJ’s demons and the way is he going to take care of his traumatized previous and settle into one thing that’s wholesome with out being self-destructive,” he continued. “That’s going to be nice to see.”
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