Madelyn Cline and Madison Bailey Tease the ‘Dream’ Outer Banks Couple They’re ‘Plotting’ to Make Happen

The actresses tell PEOPLE which characters they’ve been secretly – or perhaps not-so-secretly – scheming to see explore a connection on the hit Netflix show.

Madelyn Cline and Madison Bailey’s Outer Banks characters are both finally settling in with the boy that they want — but the actresses have another idea up their sleeves.

Ahead of the season 4 premiere of the hit Netflix series, Cline, 26, who plays Sarah Cameron and Bailey, 25, who plays Kiara, tell PEOPLE about the scheme they’ve been secretly plotting for their characters.

After Bailey says that the budding romance between her character and JJ (Rudy Pankow) is “going to be the death of my Kiara gay agenda,” Cline teases that the pair “have an idea for Sarah and Kiara” to be love interests.

“We’re plotting,” Bailey says. “But you don’t need to know.”

Madelyn Cline and Madison Bailey attend Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix’s “Outer Banks” Season 3 after Party at Baltaire on February 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. 

Cline jokes that she and Bailey are “throwing the metaphorical spaghetti on the wall” with the idea — but admits, “It’s not sticking.”

Despite Sarah (Cline) being married to Chase Stokes’ John B. and Kiara finally starting to explore things with JJ after years of tension, Bailey says of their idea for Sarah and Kiara to pair off instead, “John B. and JJ will make each other very happy. And it’s not like they’re going to be alone. Everything’s going to be fine.”

Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron, Madison Bailey as Kiara, Carlacia Grant as Cleo in ‘Outer Banks’ season 4. 

They both admit that an onscreen romance between the girls is really just a “dream scenario,” but hey — the idea is there. And it’s not the first time Bailey has vouched for the show to explore Kiara’s possible “fluid” sexuality.

She say it’s “not really” a storyline she’d tried to push that hard, but she has made comments along the lines of, “‘Are you sure? Are you sure she’s not?'”

“I think everybody’s like, ‘She’s a little fluid. We’ll figure it out later,'” Bailey says, before teasing, “There’s hopefully many more seasons to figure herself out.”

For now, though — and despite all her and Cline’s plotting — Bailey says of Kiara and JJ finally giving their chemistry a chance: “I’m rooting for them, absolutely.”

“I think Kiara maybe is in a more open place for a relationship and I think JJ is still catching up with himself, hence his hesitance [to commit],” she says. “I think he’s unsure if he can make me happy, unsure of a lot of things, unsure of himself in many, many ways and so Kiara is holding it down. I think she’s really patient. I think she understands that and a lot of that goes unspoken. I think she knows he has a lot to deal with, but [JJ is] my person.”

Rudy Pankow as JJ, Madison Bailey as Kiara in ‘Outer Banks’ season 4. 

Boys are far from the only things on Bailey and Cline’s characters’ minds in the upcoming season of Outer Banks, though, as the Pogues — which also includes Pope (Jonathan Daviss) and Cleo (Carlacia Grant) — are drawn back into the “G” game once again when teased with the possibility of discovering Blackbeard’s treasure.

As they have been for three seasons now, the teenagers are willing to do just about anything to find the gold — but both Cline and Bailey admit they’d be far more hesitant in real life.

“I have several more questions. Kiara’s never asked a single question and I’m like, ‘Are you sure about that?'” Bailey says of her character’s willingness to jump into anything. “I’d ask a lot more questions. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t [do it], It’d just be a way harder sell.”

Chase Stokes as John B, Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron in ‘Outer Banks’ season 4. 

“Yeah, no, I don’t have questions,” Cline says. “Because I’m probably not even entertaining [the idea]. So I’m going to stop you right there. I’m going to need some sort of solid motivation to help, because what the hell?”

“I need a cut,” she jokes. “Honestly, at that point, I understand where Rafe (Drew Starkey) is coming from. He’s like, ‘Where’s my cut?’ I get it. Truly.”