{"id":2947,"date":"2025-10-07T18:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:57:43","slug":"madison-bailey-teases-deeply-sentimental-outer-banks-final-season-new-rom-com-maintenance-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/madison-bailey-teases-deeply-sentimental-outer-banks-final-season-new-rom-com-maintenance-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Bailey Teases \u201cDeeply Sentimental\u201d Outer Banks Final Season & New Rom-Com Maintenance Required"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After playing stubborn, anti-capitalist, one-of-the-boys Kiara \u201cKie\u201d Carrera<\/a> for four seasons on Outer Banks<\/em><\/a>, Madison Bailey<\/a> is entering her rom-com era. In Prime Video\u2019s Maintenance Required<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>she plays Izzy, one part of an all-female mechanic shop who loves wearing head-to-toe pink as much as she loves giving manicures to people as they wait for their car repairs. Izzy\u2019s best friend Charlie (Madelaine Petsch<\/a>) owns the shop and is in a complicated situationship with Beau (Jacob Scipio<\/a>), her anonymous online crush she doesn\u2019t realize is also her corporate rival IRL. While sparks fly on and offline for Charlie and Beau, her besties Izzy and Kam (Katy O\u2019Brian) provide the comedic relief and humor often lacking in recent romance movies. The movie is a classic rom-com (a nice modern twist on You\u2019ve Got Mail<\/em><\/a>) that allows Bailey to show off, as she puts it, a \u201cmore feminine\u201d side we have yet to see from her onscreen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now that Outer Banks<\/em><\/a> is filming its fifth and final season<\/a>, which Bailey is feeling \u201cdeeply sentimental\u201d about, she\u2019ll have the chance to explore whatever she wants. Whether that\u2019s music (her first love), more acting, or all of the above, Bailey is certain she wants to explore all the different facets of her identity as a Black, queer woman. Over Zoom, Bailey talks to Refinery29 about OBX season 5, what\u2019s next for her after Outer Banks<\/em>, putting the \u201ccom\u201d in rom-com Maintenance Required<\/em>, and her thoughts on the age-old nail shapes debate: square or almond?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Refinery29: This is such a fun part and a fun movie. What made you want to take on this role?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madison Bailey: <\/strong>It is such a fun movie, and I think that\u2019s why I wanted to be part of it. I read the script and [was excited] to be the comedy part of a rom-com. It just felt like something very different from what I\u2019ve done before. I\u2019m also playing a much more feminine character than I\u2019ve got to play on screen. And so I got to tap into this side of me, this girly girl side of me, that was really fun. Also the cast is amazing, and I wanted to work with them as well.<\/p>\n

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In my 11 years of being an actor, it was maybe the easiest scene I\u2019ve ever done. <\/p>\n

madison bailey on singing \u2018super bass\u2019 by nicki minaj in \u2018maintenance required\u2019<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

I love rom-coms and I love what you said about your character being the comedy part of this rom-com. In some recent \u201crom-coms\u201d I feel like they are missing the comedy part, and this is a true romantic comedy in that it is very funny. So talk a little bit about that genre. What is it about the genre specifically that you love so much?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>\u200b\u200bRom-coms are one of my favorite genres because they\u2019re just fun to watch. You can fall for the characters quickly, and it\u2019s an easy watch. Personally, one of my favorites is 50 First Dates. <\/em>And I think it was really fun to do this genre that sort of had its peak in the early 2000s and I wish we were making more of them. I was happy to be doing a movie that I would be excited to watch.<\/p>\n

Bring them back!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>We need more! Just fun, easy, watches!<\/p>\n

We have to talk about the nails. Your character Izzy is a mechanic and also a nail tech. How long did those take? What was the process of coming up with the nail looks?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB:<\/strong> The stylist and the nail tech on set definitely had some free reign. I have a green set and a pink set that I wear for the majority of the movie. I think I have four or five nail changes in total, two of them that I pitched and sent pictures for inspo for it was super collaborative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where did you find the inspiration?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB:<\/strong> Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, just on my socials. And I was like, Oh, this is so cool.<\/em> I love fun nails personally. I love a simple fringe, but I also love doing all of the things and making every nail different. The process of putting on the nails was pretty easy. We just did nail stickers because I couldn\u2019t actually do acrylic due to having to change them per scene. So it was a little bit of a task because they weren\u2019t as secure. I didn\u2019t get to just live my normal life with acrylic nails. They were very lightly on, so the whole day kind of looks like this [motions gingerly picking up things with her nails]<\/em>, and a lot of being so careful. I just accepted that they were gonna pop off throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Was there ever a moment where you had to stop a take or stop rolling mid scene because they popped off?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>Absolutely! <\/strong>Or I was just like, and we\u2019re rolling, and I\u2019m like, no, no, no, I don\u2019t have my nails. I\u2019m missing two. I cannot!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your answer to the age-old debate: almond or square nails?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>In the movie I had two long square sets and two shorter almond sets. Personally, I like long and tapered squares, not completely square. But not stiletto because I feel like it\u2019s hard to do that. So just a tapered square for me personally.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an almond girlie right now but it\u2019s okay, we\u2019ll agree to disagree.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB:<\/strong> [laughs] <\/em>I love the long almond though! I like the long almonds better than the short almond.<\/p>\n

The chemistry between you, Madelaine Petsch and Katy O\u2019Brian was my favorite thing in the movie. How did you develop that bond?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>We were really fortunate for the majority of it to just come very naturally to all of us. As far as bonding, we did a lot of dinners, we did some activities, like an escape room, just fun things hanging out. Off set [hangouts] always help. But also I think we just clicked immediately.<\/p>\n

It really leapt off screen. There\u2019s a scene where you\u2019re all in the car and you\u2019re all rapping along to \u201cSuper Bass\u201d by Nicki Minaj. I know you\u2019re an artist yourself. Did you have to prep for that scene or were those lyrics already right here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>No, honestly, in my 11 years of being an actor, it was maybe the easiest scene I\u2019ve ever done. [laughs]<\/em> I was like, I know my lines. I\u2019m off book. I\u2019m ready to go call action. Where are we starting? <\/em>\u201cSuper Bass\u201d is one of those songs that people dedicated to learning the lyrics like 10 years ago and you\u2019ll never forget them.<\/p>\n

Yes! I\u2019ll be in a nursing home and still know \u201cSuper Bass.\u201d Are you a Barb?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB:<\/strong> [laughs] <\/em>I would say I\u2019m a Barb. I definitely am.<\/p>\n

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You mentioned the femininity of your character\u2019s style and having to tap into that. How fun was it to tap into that feminine side when that\u2019s not\u00a0 necessarily what we\u2019ve seen you do on screen in the past?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB:<\/strong> It was just so fun. I would say I\u2019m a girly girl [but] I typically play very tomboy characters so I was very excited to tap into this side of myself and map out the looks and collaborate with the stylist. We wanted her style to be funky, but not unrealistic, just maximalist and fun and then with the jewelry, bringing some Oakland swag to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We know that Outer Banks <\/em><\/strong>is ending with Season 5, which you are shooting now. How are you feeling about it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>Deeply sentimental. Not only are we just trying to absorb everything for the last time and just really take it in, I think we\u2019ve all been overwhelmed with gratitude this year. I would say that\u2019s the number one word: gratitude. We show our love to each other every day. We always tell each other that and we\u2019ve just built such a support group and such a bond. It\u2019s going to be so insane to not be working with these people anymore, and I think we\u2019re feeling all that comes with that. Like, the other day, we were like, This is our Is this our last boat day? <\/em>Like, is this our last time going out on the boats and coming back in at sunset? <\/em>We\u2019re all in our feels this year.<\/p>\n

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Not only are we just trying to absorb everything for the last time and just really take it in, I think we\u2019ve all been overwhelmed with gratitude this year\u2026 We\u2019re all in our feels.<\/p>\n

madison bailey on the end of \u2018outer banks\u2019<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

What can you tease about Season 5?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>What can I tease? I would just say that this season holds a different space tonally than we\u2019ve seen in past seasons. We\u2019re all dealing with this loss [JJ\u2019s death], and we see it pan out for all of these characters that are typically free-for-all, nothing-to-lose kids, and then we experience a loss and it hits all of us.<\/p>\n

That vibe seems like maybe it felt very apropos to how you are all feeling about grieving the end of the show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>Yeah. I mean, there\u2019s definitely moments where we\u2019re in tears [for the show] and there\u2019s more to cry about. I\u2019m looking around like, Ah, everything\u2019s so sad. This is it! This is our last year! <\/em>But like I said, just feeling so grateful.<\/p>\n

On the flip side of that, is there something that you\u2019re most excited for when it comes to life after Outer Banks<\/em><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB:<\/strong> I think I\u2019m excited to just to really be able to pick the projects that I want to do. I think I have done amazing projects that I really wanted to do. But it\u2019s also like there is an element of what I can do in this timeframe? And there are scripts that I\u2019ve loved that [I couldn\u2019t do] because they were shooting while I\u2019m shooting [Outer Banks<\/em>]. So I\u2019m excited to have the availability in my schedule to really map out what I want to do.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re someone who\u2019s been so outspoken about the intersections of your identity as a queer person and a biracial Black person. Is that something that you\u2019re thinking of when you\u2019re looking at what you\u2019re going to do next?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>Absolutely. I mean, it\u2019s my hope that by the time I\u2019m done with this amazing job that I have, that I will have been able to tell not only stories that I\u2019m not that familiar with, but also to be able to tell all the stories within myself. Because, like you said, I am intersectional. I\u2019m a woman, I\u2019m Black, I\u2019m queer, and I want to tell all of those stories from different perspectives and multiple times. I\u2019m excited for those opportunities.<\/p>\n

We are Refinery29 so one of the questions we love to ask is: what advice would you give to your 29 year old self? I know it\u2019s only in a couple years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MB: <\/strong>What do I want to tell my 29 year old self? You know what? I\u2019ve said that 30 sounds a lot better than 29 so I would tell my 29-year-old self to just wait it out. Like, next year is your year. Next year the fun starts. Enjoy your last year in your 20s for what it is but they make it sound so fun. I\u2019m 26 and I\u2019m telling you, 30 has got to be good, because this is tough. So I would say just soak it in and know that the best years are on the way.<\/p>\n

Maintenance Required is streaming on Prime Video starting Wednesday, October 8th.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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