After five years of playing John B., Chase Stokes opens up about plans to take his career to the next level — all while 'building a life' with girlfriend Kelsea Ballerini
After five years of playing John B., the actor opens up about plans to take his career to the next level — all while 'building a life' with girlfriend Kelsea Balleriniface as he lowers himself into a folding director’s chair on the set of his PEOPLE shoot in Los Angeles in early August. “Something that stands true on every film set is these canvas, uncomfortable seats,” he says.
“When I look at my career 40 years from now, I would hope to have 10 percent of what Paul did,” he says later. But with so much discourse recently about the dearth of true movie stars—and whether an actor alone can still draw audiences to the movie theater—is Stokes chasing a futile goal?]. If you look at the generation before us, there are four different Chrises that are massive movie stars; you’ve got multiple Ryans—premieres on Oct.
He became interested in working behind the camera while taking a television production class in high school. Eventually Stokes started doing the morning announcements on-camera. He also learned recognition comes at a cost. “You go from a level of ‘Oh my gosh, it's working’ to ‘Oh my gosh, now I want a sense of my privacy back,’" he says., “we don’t skip a beat in the world of John B. and Sarah, and I think that’s rare,” Stokes says. “It was a great relationship, and now we’re exactly where we started: incredibly talented costars.”
“We have big careers and a big world around us, but we like to keep it very simple and very small,” he says. That means sometimes Ballerini will “come and hang out on-set with me, or I'll go into the studio with her.”, on Oct. 25. “It is unbelievable,” Stokes says. “It is a master class in songwriting. To watch her on the back porch writing and see what it is now, it is the most fascinating thing.
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