‘Outer Banks’ Star Charles Esten On His Character’s Fate In New Season

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SPOILER ALERT: Reading further will reveal spoilers about the recently released third season of “Outer Banks”, so proceed with caution. The third season of Netflix hit “Outer Banks” dropped last week, and one of the season’s biggest plot twists involves Ward Cameron (played by Charles Estes), father of Sarah (Madelyn Cline).

While Ward has been a nemesis for the Pogues in their quest for gold, he makes the ultimate sacrifice to save his daughter’s life when Ryan (Lou Ferrigno Jr.), henchman of villainous Carlos Singh (Andy McQueen), threatens to kill Sarah, leading Ward to lunge at Ryan and send them both careening off the edge of a cliff to their deaths.

For Esten, best known for playing Deacon Claybourne on “Nashville”, Ward’s heroic exit was a fitting one. “It’s been very gratifying to me because it’s not often that the bad guy gets any kind of emotional arc.

But from the very beginning, they put it in the lines, and they allowed me to run wild with it, is that other side of Ward that makes people not exactly sure they hate him (laughs) — where they might just see a human being under there,” he explained in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. READ MORE: ‘Outer Banks’ Season 3: Cast Reacts To Shocking Season Finale (Exclusive) “It was gratifying to get to explore that, but it also made total sense to me because, at the end of season two, Ward has everything — all the gold, the cross, he got away.