‘Outer Banks’ Star Chase Stokes Needed ‘Stranger Issues’ Function However ‘Effed Up’ Audition

Stranger Issues might have had a different-looking Steve Harrington had Chase Stokes not “completely effed up” throughout his audition for the hit Netflix sequence.

The Outer Banks star opened up about his failed audition throughout a fan occasion in Huntington Seashore, California, telling Access Hollywood, “So I truly learn for Steve Harrington and forgot all of the strains and completely effed up the audition.”

He continued, “I drove eight hours from Atlanta again to Orlando regretting each second of my life on that.”

The function of Steve finally went to Joe Keery, who has change into a fan favourite over the present’s 4 seasons. Steve begins out because the boyfriend of Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) within the first season and is portrayed as a jock who likes to torment and bully others. Nonetheless, he has a redemption arc in Season 2 and ultimately turns into a core a part of the principle group.

Stokes had excessive reward for Keery, calling him “an absolute legend” earlier than including, “He’s so rattling good as Steve Harrington. I’m tremendous happy with him. I’ve talked to him a bit bit all through the years.”

Although Stokes didn’t land the function of Steve, the Duffer Brothers did give him a quick look within the first season. In a brief scene within the sixth episode, Stokes will be seen leaning out of a automobile window, shouting an insulting comment to Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton) about Nancy.

“I’m simply grateful for the Duffer brothers for giving me a possibility to do my job and to start out my profession,” he shared. “I imply, if it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be right here and the manager producers and the Netflix people who find themselves a part of that present have been additionally a part of Stranger Issues. It’s a really full circle second for me.”

Stokes performs the lead function of John B. Routledge in Outer Banks, which follows a bunch of youngsters on the hunt for a legendary treasure linked to the disappearance of John’s father. The third season lands on Netflix at present, Thursday, February 23.

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