Cline also tells PEOPLE what she really thinks about Sarah running back to Topper in season 3: “Why does he keep showing up?”
John B. and Sarah Cameron seem to finally be on the same page — and boy is Madelyn Cline happy about that.
The actress, 26, has seen her fair share of drama as Sarah Cameron in Outer Banks over the show’s previous three seasons, and she tells PEOPLE she’s glad to see her character and Chase Stokes’ John B. get to relax a little bit in season 4.
“We’ve had enough [drama]. We have 3 seasons worth,” Cline says in a joint interview with Madison Bailey.
“I feel like they have been fighting each other quite a bit and I’ve been tired of it,” she admits. “Because I’m tired of people coming for me.”
Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron, Chase Stokes as John B in ‘Outer Banks’ season 4
The characters started off as a kind of star-crossed lovers, and it took some time for John B’s friends — JJ (Rudy Pankow), Pope (Jonathan Daviss) and Kiara (Bailey) — to warm up to having Sarah around, but she broke down their walls and successfully transitioned from Kook to Pogue. In season 3, though, she pushed the limit a bit too far, and amidst a brief split from John B, she rekindled things with her ex, Topper (Austin North), which, of course, led to a brawl between the boys.
“Sarah came for herself when she did that,” Cline says of Sarah’s retreat to Topper when things went bad with John B. in season 3.
“Why is he everywhere?” Bailey, 25, jokes about Sarah’s ex-boyfriend — and Cline agrees, as she says mid-laugh, “Why does he keep showing up?”
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While part 1 of season 4, which premiered on Oct. 10, sees smooth sailing for Sarah and John B, Cline teases that there could be some turmoil ahead.
“Just because the first five episodes start out happy doesn’t mean that there isn’t going to be some sort of discourse,” she says. “This is TV.”
Chase Stokes as John B, Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron in season 4 of ‘Outer Banks’
Season 4 sees the Pogues drawn back into the G game after Wes Genrette enlists their help to find Blackbeard’s lost treasure. They, of course, end up “in over their heads, with dangerous new enemies hot on their heels racing them to the treasure,” per the official synopsis.
Their treasure-hunting takes them around the world yet again this season, and this time, the Pogues wind up in Morocco — and Cline admits she and the cast were pretty surprised to be jet-setting to such an exotic location this time.
“Usually we just kind of hop on over here to Barbados, [now] we’re all the way over there,” she says. “I was surprised.”
