{"id":24828,"date":"2021-05-28T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=24828"},"modified":"2021-05-29T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T17:14:11","slug":"madelyn-cline-as-good-as-gold","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/madelyn-cline-as-good-as-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"As Good As Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Madelyn
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Madelyn Cline shimmies and grins as the opening notes of \u201cPiece of Me\u201d by Britney Spears echo out across Malibu Canyon. She\u2019s on top of the world — literally, at Stunt Road Ranch, and in a figurative sense, as her career explodes to superstar heights. After our day-long Friday fashion shoot, the 23-year-old would have another the following day, heading into the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night. (She\u2019d win Best Kiss with boyfriend and\u00a0Outer Banks\u00a0<\/i>co-star Chase Stokes, of course.) Life for Cline these days is camera flashes, glam squads, red carpets, and couture. It\u2019s no wonder that Spears\u2019 album\u00a0Blackout<\/i>, an opus on the highs and lows of fame, is her professed summer soundtrack.<\/p>\n

Still, Cline seems poised to avoid the pitfalls that have waylaid starlets like\u00a0Spears. Confident and grounded, she seems equally comfortable rocking the Salvatore Ferragamo power suit on our cover as\u00a0she is hanging around in the sweatpants and slip-on\u00a0sneaks\u00a0she changed into for\u00a0the\u00a0drive home. Speaking of which, no chauffeurs or black cars for Cline. She drove off in her own ride\u00a0\u2014\u00a0with South Carolina plates.<\/p>\n

Keeping close to her Carolina roots has been easy for the Charleston native, considering that her breakthrough performance in the Netflix series\u00a0Outer Banks<\/i>\u00a0takes place a short drive from her hometown. Hearing her describe her time filming the series\u2014for Cline, her last days of relative obscurity\u2014it almost sounds like she\u2019s describing a college experience: days of bonding and self-discovery before launching into the real\u00a0world.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe first season of the show felt like going and shooting an indie,\u201d Cline says. \u201cIt was very tight-knit, so the filming of the first season felt very intimate in the best way possible. We really vibe with our crew and our cast, obviously. We immediately had chemistry, and we immediately started hanging out, which is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cline found her closest connection with Stokes, her co-star and now boyfriend of one year. Still, even with two seasons of filming now under their belts, the Outer Banks cast is closer than ever\u2014a fact that has helped Cline cope with the crazy ride of new fame.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all kind of started in the same place when we got the show,\u201d she explains, \u201cand we just stuck together. We\u2019re all going through the same thing and it just helps to\u00a0have people around you who understand and who are there for you. We keep each other grounded and we hype each other up. We\u2019re all each other\u2019s best hype man.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of hype to be had for Cline these days. Among the other accolades being thrown in\u00a0her direction,\u00a0GRAZIA USA<\/i>\u00a0represents Cline\u2019s first-ever national photo shoot. That is, if you don\u2019t count\u00a0Parent & Child<\/i>\u00a0magazine or\u00a0American Girl<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Although Cline is a newcomer to the bright lights of Hollywood, she\u2019s no stranger to semi-stardom, having worked for years as a child model after winning a 2008 competition.\u00a0Commuting from Charleston to New York for gigs, she landed shoots for those magazines and others, along with ad campaigns for EZ Bake Oven, Sunny D, Toys R Us, T-Mobile, and more.<\/p>\n

What was meant to be a way to save for college planted the seeds of a potential career path for Cline, but only in retrospect.<\/p>\n

She explains, \u201cI kind of got a taste of what being on sets was like, and that was fun. But when I turned around 14 or 15, I was like, \u2018That was cool, but I don\u2019t know if this is what I want to do. Maybe at some point I would like to work and find a job in that industry, but I don\u2019t want to do this forever.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Still, she couldn\u2019t quite\u00a0avoid\u00a0the spotlight: \u201cI kept auditioning because I thought\u00a0working on sets was a lot of fun. The more I got into acting and the more I was on TV and movie sets, the more I realized, that was where I wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, however, the work of being a star takes place almost as much off set as it does on. Social media is a huge part of developing and keeping the kind of fan following that lands you roles — something that Cline, with her 6.3 million Instagram followers and 3.4 million\u00a0TikTok\u00a0followers, understands implicitly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still learning,\u201d Cline admits. When\u00a0it comes to engaging with fans in a healthy way,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s new territory for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expectation to share everything is intimidating,\u201d she continues. It\u2019s a constant pressure that takes real thoughtfulness to navigate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lesson to get real with myself and to be honest with myself,\u201d she says. \u201cWhat are you comfortable with? What are you not comfortable with? And also, what are your opinions? How do you feel? Checking in with myself has been a big thing, because it\u2019s necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, she\u2019s\u00a0acutely aware that her introspection must be balanced with an awareness of the millions on the other side of her phone screen.<\/p>\n

A truly digital native celebrity, Cline says, \u201cI was a teenager when Instagram was really new. As a consumer of social media, I was thinking about what I wanted or needed. I check in with that younger version of myself, because a lot of our audience is teenagers. I ask myself, \u2018What can I do today? What message can I send them?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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If all else fails, there\u2019s always Bravo.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I\u2019m a pretty private person,\u201d Cline reveals, \u201ceven with some of my closest friends. There are some days where I just need to set myself in a room and close the curtains and just watch\u00a0Below Deck<\/i>. I need to reset. I need to recharge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morning workouts, meditation, YouTube yoga — those are more of Cline\u2019s tools for staying sane and centered in the middle of a media storm. Journaling helps, too, along with staying connected to the people who know her best: her parents, real estate agent\u00a0Pam Cline and engineer dad Mark.<\/p>\n

An only child, Cline says, \u201cI talk with my mom and my dad almost every day. They\u2019re just as excited as I am about all of this. This is all incredibly new to all three of us. They get almost more excited than I do, which is\u00a0very sweet, but since I can\u2019t physically be with them all the time, I\u2019m just doing my best to share everything that\u2019s happening with them and share my world with them. I adore them. They\u2019re really lovely people and they\u2019re great parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cline herself could be the proof of that. Authentic and charming, grounded and dazzling, she has the \u201cIt\u201d\u00a0factor\u00a0that makes women stars, along with the intelligence and gravity that keeps them from burning out. If she has anything to do with it, she\u2019ll be\u00a0following in the footsteps\u00a0of ingenues turned A-listers like Scarlett Johansson\u2014who she happened to meet at the MTV Movie Awards the night before our chat.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night was very exciting, because we saw and we met some incredibly talented people,\u201d Cline\u00a0dished excitedly, \u201cpeople that I\u2019ve watched and admired as a fan for a very long time. To be in front of them was pretty mind blowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always really admired Scarlett\u00a0Johansson\u00a0as an actress, and her choices and her career are just incredible,\u201d she\u00a0says. \u201cI\u2019ve met a lot of women in my time here in LA — really independent, powerful women\u2014and I admire that. Bottom line, just being able to be around that kind of energy and women who are such bosses is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With Season 2 of\u00a0Outer Banks<\/i>\u00a0set to premiere later this summer and more projects on the horizon, Cline doesn\u2019t seem to realize this indisputable fact: She\u2019s one of them already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28964,"featured_media":24736,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23],"yoast_head":"\nAs Good As Gold - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"'Outer Banks' actress Madelyn Cline talks to Grazia about her Netflix series, Carolina roots, and co-star boyfriend Chase Stokes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/madelyn-cline-as-good-as-gold\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"As Good As Gold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"'Outer Banks' actress Madelyn Cline talks to Grazia about her Netflix series, Carolina roots, and co-star boyfriend Chase Stokes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/madelyn-cline-as-good-as-gold\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Grazia USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-29T17:14:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/homepage_wide3.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/madelyn-cline-as-good-as-gold\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/madelyn-cline-as-good-as-gold\/\",\"name\":\"As Good As Gold - 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