Madelyn Cline opens up about Netflix’s ‘Outer Banks,’ coping with sudden fame, and how Tumblr fandom helped her own her sexuality.
On a private tennis court overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir, next to a midcentury mansion that would make Don Draper’s mouth water, Madelyn Cline raises her racket to hit the incoming ball — and whiffs. Thein a matching taupe athletic set and her hair pulled into a high pony. But as influencer-favorite coach Mads Hegelund takes us through a forehand drill, Cline emits a Disney princess grunt each time she lunges for the ball.
“Honestly, life changing like it did going through very normal things like breakups and loss have an added dose of cayenne pepper,” says the 26-year-old. For a girl from small-town South Carolina, all the newfound attention rattled her. But these days, she’s learning to embrace the spice. “Sometimes you need someone to slap you around and be like, ‘Shut up. You’re killing it. You’re doing a good job.
“I felt like people were thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, she’s spiraling.’ I didn’t know how to handle everything. So I let myself become really hardened.”After a brief try at college, Cline moved to Los Angeles to try to emulate those cool, sexy, confident stars she watched from afar. “I think I just had this one single goal and a one track mind,” she says. But wherever you go, your baggage follows. “The first two years in LA, I was still very uncomfortable in my own skin.
When our interview ends, and I start debating what to do until my dinner plans, she asks if I’d want to keep hanging over a glass of wine. And when I say yes, of course, but I’d need to change out of my tennis clothes — she offers the passenger seat of her Mazda rental as a dressing room.
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