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Chase Stokes on 'Progression of Distance' With Rudy Pankow After 'OBX' Exit
Chase Stokes opened up about the 'natural progression of distance' between him and Rudy Pankow, who left 'Outer Banks' after season 4
During the Friday, January 24, episode of SiriusXM Hits 1 The Morning Mash Up, Stokes, 32, addressed Pankow’s shocking exit, saying, “When you spend five years with somebody doing a show like this, there’s that lifelong bond. (L-R) Jonathan Daviss as Pope, Chase Stokes as John B, Carlacia Grant as Cleo, Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron, Madison Bailey as Kiara and Rudy Pankow as JJJackson Lee Davis/Netflix“When you’re in a town like Charleston, South Carolina, and you have the success of the show, you have to be a little bit more strategic and careful about how you operate in society,” he explained. The hit Netflix series, which debuted in 2020, introduced the fictional found family between John B (Stokes), Sarah ( Madelyn Cline), Kiara (Bailey), Pope (Daviss), JJ (Rudy Pankow) and Cleo ( Carlacia Grant).
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