‘Outer Banks’ star Chase Stokes owes his role in ‘Stranger Things’ – even though he completely ruined his audition for the Netflix hit

Since 2020, Chase Stokes leads the Pogues’ adventure troupe as John B. Routledge in the Netflix hit “Outer Banks” – now in its third season and soon in its already confirmed fourth season. But years before landing the lead role that would eventually bring him world fame, he was vying for a starring role in another, even more popular Netflix series.

As Stokes now in an interview with betrayed, he once spoke for the role of former Bullys and later fan favorite Steve Harrington”Strange things” for – what he doesn’t like to think about…

Chase Stokes Was Still in “Stranger Things”

During the interview, Stokes openly admitted that he messed up the audition for Steve, not least because he completely forgot his lines. “I drove eight hours from Atlanta back to Orlando and regretted every single moment of my life because of it,” says Stokes, describing how much the experience apparently affected him at the time.

But a moment later came a consolation. Because while he wasn’t ultimately cast as Steve (the role eventually went to Joe Keery), he seemed to have made a certain impression on Stranger Things executives Matt and Ross Duffer, who at least gave him one. Mini appearance in the sixth episode of the first season her Netflix hit. Here he is seen very briefly as a character named Reed who drives past his classmate Nancy (Natalia Dyer) in a car and cheerfully tells her he can’t wait to see her movie (referring to an offensive graffiti on the film). cinema).

“Outer Banks” role thanks to “Stranger Things”

Even though Chase Stokes only appears in one scene of “Stranger Things” (and even less than his “Outer Banks” colleague Madelyn Cline, who also has a small supporting role as a high school student in the mystery series’ first season), it was precisely this performance that landed him a contract for “Outer Banks” a few years later: “I’m just thankful to the Duffer brothers for giving me the opportunity to do my job and start my career,” said Stokes. “Without them I wouldn’t be here right now.”

And who knows? It’s possible that Chase Stokes wouldn’t have had the chance to take on a starring role in “Outer Banks” with the Steve role in “Stranger Things”, which grew even more important in subsequent seasons. Plus, to Stokes, Joe Keery was just “as damn good as Steve” and “an absolute legend”, as he went on to say in the interview. In the end, despite a failed Stranger Things audition, Chase Stokes seems more than happy with how it turned out in the end.