Final 12 months, after a journey to Morocco, actor Madison Bailey helped uncover the pirate Blackbeard’s misplaced treasure. She notched that belt on the hit Netflix present Outer Banks, a coming-of-age journey drama that explores teen angst in addition to the everlasting enchantment of crop tops, cutoffs, and beachy curls. She additionally traveled again in time to move off her sister’s killer within the horror film Time Lower. A fifth and last season of Outer Banks is within the works, however for the second the 26-year-old has turned her creativeness to her past love, music. And he or she’s began writing songs. Thus far she has launched two singles, “The Gray” and “Truthfully,” which each probe feelings that aren’t fairly as sunny because the seashores the place we’re used to seeing her.
Attract sat down to speak with Bailey at one in every of her favourite native eating places, Jon & Vinny’s, earlier than the Los Angeles fires wreaked destruction on town. We talked about New Yr’s resolutions, appearing, music, perfume, and love, and the way she hopes to discover a stability this 12 months with all of them.
Attract: Whenever you walked in right here, I may inform you’re a common!
Madison Bailey: I found this place—why am I saying I “found” it? A pal informed me about this place; I didn’t uncover shit. I’ve been right here, like, 60 instances. Six-zero.
It’s great to be a daily someplace. Your routine should change quite a bit because you’re often on an island for months and months of the 12 months attempting to find TV treasure.
That’s my purpose for the entire 12 months, to get a routine of some type, even when it’s simply my water bottle, taking my nutritional vitamins, journaling. I’ve been attempting to get a schedule that’s maintainable for journey. I‘m canceling my health club membership as a result of I had all of it 12 months and I used to be gone the entire time. And I wish to increase my expertise for music and take heed to new artists on daily basis. I’m already discovering so many individuals; [my taste] is everywhere.
How are you discovering time for music, which had been a part of your life earlier than you grew to become an actor, proper?
I simply began making music, however I’ve been singing my entire life. Other than Outer Banks, which is within the schedule, a identified factor, my focus is music, and I’m studying scripts consistently. I received’t find time for what I don’t wish to do. It is figuring out the place my creation is flowing. If I learn one thing I really like, I put the rest on pause. That is the 12 months the place I’ll discover the stability.
