Can Rafe Return After 'Outer Banks' Finale? Madelyn Cline Explains

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The Pogues have completed their last adventure, and Madelyn Cline says the theme of filming Outer Banks Season 5 was a string of “lasts.” As the cast started to wrap up filming, they had to say goodbye to locations they’d come to call home since Season 1 in 2020, and the strong connections forged with their co-stars. That includes the familial bond Cline and Drew Starkey had formed to play warring siblings Sarah and Rafe Cameron over six years.

Spoiler alert: This post discusses events from the Outer Banks series finale.

One scene in particular — the final one between Sarah and Rafe — got both Cline and Starkey in their feelings. “Neither Drew nor I planned on it being that emotional, but that was towards the end,” she says. “That goodbye ended up, for him and I, feeling accidentally re...