

We only have one earth, Pope, we should be giving it 100%. It takes fewer than five minutes into OB’s pilot episode for Kiara to launch into her first environmentally-charged spiel of the series. So I would say, love yourself first, and then figure out who is for you.”įENDI dress, bra, briefs, and hair clips, STUART WEITZMAN shoes, and ROBERTO COIN ring. “It’s too confusing to add other people to it.


“I think Kiara needs to really figure out where she stands, because she’s still in the middle of this Pogue-Kook thing,” she says, referring to Kiara’s struggle to fit in with either of the island’s dominant socioeconomic classes. But if you ask Bailey what “team” she’s on, she offers a view far different from what fans probably want to hear. While Kiara ended the first season, presumably, in the arms of the bright, trepidatious Pope Heyward (Jonathan Daviss), fans of the show have created an impassioned case that she is best suited with firecracker surfer, JJ Maybank (Rudy Pankow). In the case of her own friendships, Bailey often finds herself doling out relationship advice, which perhaps Kiara could use, having twice broken the cardinal rule of “no Pogue-on-Pogue macking.” “It’s safe to say that me and my friends never get into the same shit they’re getting into,” she chuckles. Like Kiara, Bailey also plays a protective role in her friend group (though unlike the Pogues, the actor and her friends don’t regularly enjoy boat chases under a hail of gunfire, break into active crime scenes, or go hunting for missing treasure). We were never inside.”įENDI dress, bra, briefs, and hair clips. As kids, we’d go build forts in the yard. “We were always outside on bikes or scooters or horseback riding or fishing. “We would go to the creek and collect salamanders and frogs,” she shares. “She’s a tough chick, and it’s very fun to add in the tough chick that lives inside of me and marry the two.” Though Bailey considers herself “feminine in every way,” she admits that growing up with three brothers helped her bring out the adventurous spirit of Kiara.

“I like Kiara’s spirit,” Bailey says with a laugh. With her hair piled on top of her head, leopard print tank top strap twisted on her shoulder, and a New York Knicks bag slung over the back of her chair, Bailey could be any other 22-year-old-though not just any 22-year-old can put a breakout role on a Netflix smash hit on their resumé.īailey catapulted to fame with her starring role of Kiara Carrera, an outspoken and quick-thinking teenager navigating her upper-class background with her lower-class friends-or “Pogues”-in last summer’s hit Netflix series, Outer Banks, which will enjoy its much-anticipated second season this summer. As I joke with the actor about our feeling “like Tony freakin’ Hawk” anytime we can successfully skateboard down the street without falling, and commiserate over the Covid vaccine side effects, I can’t help but feel as though I’m falling back into step with someone I’ve known for years. LOUIS VUITTON jacket and boots, ULYSSE NARDIN watch, and ROBERTO COIN earrings, necklace, bracelet, and ring.Įven a spotty wi-fi connection and 1,200-plus miles of distance can’t quell Madison Bailey’s contagious laughter.
