But that’s not what happened.
I’m like, ‘What?’
It’s like, ‘Surprise, they’re all here in the conference room.

Chase Stokes talks about his ‘Outer Banks’ audition.Jeff Hahne/Getty
Jeff Hahne/Getty
Stokes was floored.
“So I’m standing there, like,All right.
I feel good enough to do this.
“I was like,Oh, I’m so f—ed.
Like, I’m so screwed.
There’s nothing about this that’s gonna go over well.”
He told himself that he’d already done the worst he could do, but that didn’t help.
So he asked to take a moment.
“And I sat on the curb, and I just started sobbing.
Because I thought I failed.
I thought, like,This is it.
That’s when Pate gave him a hand.
“I forgot all the lines and absolutely effed up,” he toldAccess Hollywoodin February 2023.
“I drove eight hours from Atlanta back to Orlando regretting every moment of my life on that.”
The first five episodes of the fourth season ofOuter Banksare available Oct. 10 on Netflix.