‘Outer Banks’ Star Madison Bailey Breaks Down JJ And Kie’s “Seamless Transition” From Greatest Associates To Lovers

JJ Maybank (Rudy Pankow) and Kiara “Kie” Carrera’s (Madison Bailey) romantic relationship has been a very long time within the making. Within the penultimate episode of Outer Banks Season 3, they lastly share a kiss and trade I like yous earlier than JJ efficiently breaks Kie out of a camp for troubled teenagers her mother and father shipped her off to. This season, we get to see the brand new couple really date — no less than, for a short time earlier than their hunt for Blackbeard’s treasure turns into everybody’s fundamental precedence.

The couple, in any other case often known as “Jiara” to followers of the present, started as finest associates who appeared to grasp one another in a manner that nobody else did. Whereas it took till the very finish of Season 3 for them to lastly get collectively, Season 4 provides the Jiara content material we’ve so patiently been ready for.

Bailey, who performs Kie, not too long ago spoke to DECIDER by way of Zoom, the place she dished on JJ and Kie’s “seamless transition” from finest associates to lovers — and the way their relationship is way “completely different” than that of longtime couple John B (Chase Stokes) and Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline).

“I feel having these two characters which can be finest associates makes the connection circulation,” the actress mentioned. “And I feel we had an understanding of, like, we aren’t John B and Sarah. They’ve a special dynamic.”

Bailey added, “I feel we had numerous enjoyable and simply being like, ‘That is nonetheless very a lot a friendship.’ And so I feel it got here fairly naturally.”

There are many lovable moments between the duo within the first a part of Season 4, from their boardwalk “date” that ends with them narrowly escaping a foul man by leaping off a pier and into the ocean, to their makeout session in a hyperbolic chamber, which comes after a harmful diving incident almost kills them.

Whether or not it’s in regular teenage conditions or occasions of hassle — and, boy, there are lots of of these — JJ and Kie are rapidly changing into Outer Banks’ finest couple.

Outer Banks Season 4, Half 1 is presently streaming on Netflix. Half 2 will hit the streamer on Nov. 7.