English Programme: Some more fun facts about Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, and Drew Starkey

Chase Stokes

He talks to inanimate objects when he’s alone, asking them how they’re doing and about their “heart and soul,” then snaps back to reality.
Jennifer Aniston has been his celebrity crush since childhood; he even cried when she joined Instagram.
He once broke his foot by stepping in a sandcastle, then accidentally tripped over Robert De Niro’s foot at a Netflix party while still injured.
He almost landed the role of Han Solo at one point.
He has a “Dear Me” tattoo tied to a mental-health exercise about talking to his younger self, plus a mom heart tattoo because he’s a self-proclaimed mama’s boy.
Comfort food is boneless buffalo wings. First album he ever owned was Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane.

Madelyn Cline

Her first concert was Hilary Duff at age 7; she ate so many funnel cakes and drank so many slushies that she threw up during “Come Clean.”
Worst date ever: the guy took her to Moe’s, his card got declined, he called his mom for money and she said no, so Madelyn ended up paying.
She went down an internet rabbit hole of declassified CIA documents about astral projection and consciousness.
Favorite childhood movie was Mulan on repeat. Her teenage AIM screen name was something like Skippypeanutbutter97.
She once had a real rat dropped on her head on the Outer Banks set (the rat wrangler was told to do it).
She’s fluent in Spanish and has a two-octave singing range.

Drew Starkey

He once had a masseuse casually say “I’m a really big fan, by the way” right in the middle of a massage; he just wanted it to end.
For Queer he lost about 30 pounds (and later had to put some back on). He also bleached his eyebrows for another role and considered shaving them completely.
Family has performing arts roots: his grandfather was in the original Broadway cast of Once Upon a Mattress, and an uncle runs the Indianapolis Opera.
First theater role was in fifth grade playing a warrior in an original school play.
He can do spot-on accents (including a thick Manchester one for Oasis jokes) and claims white bread is superior to every other kind of bread.
Loves Charleston restaurants and grew up on Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page is “god” in his book).