“I would say it’s a flat-out impossibility that I come back, short of a flashback,” he said. But later, they were also very excited that there could be some good in this bad guy - enough to be a little confusing, but a little interesting to watch.”Īs for how final Ward’s death is, Esten confirms the character is a goner. “In the beginning, they wanted somebody that the audience would think was a good guy. “From the very beginning, the writers weren’t looking for just a full-on bad guy twirling his moustache,” he said. “Sometimes things just work out, and a lot of it is the writers being utterly available to what’s gonna work in that moment and what’s gonna really make the audience feel something.”Īccording to Esten, he got the job because producers were familiar with his work on “Nashville”, and were looking for a nuanced villain.Ĭhase Stokes And Madelyn Cline Open Up On Filming ‘Outer Banks’ Season 3 After Their Breakup: ‘Work Was Always Going To Come First’ “To my mind, we landed on the one that is by far the most meaningful and the most interesting,” he said. Not only that, he’s walking away with these horrible memories of laying his hands on his daughter, choking her.”Įsten also revealed that he wasn’t told of his character’s demise until “very late in the game,” and recalled that there were “different outcomes” of how that scene played out. “We’re all chasing this gold, but in the end, they walk away with that, and Ward walks away with nothing. “They have the family that Ward has supposedly always been fighting for, and to my mind is the real treasure of the show,” Esten continued.

And meanwhile, the Pogues have nothing - literally the shirts on their back, and they’re on a deserted island - and they have everything. “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. ‘Outer Banks’ Season 3: Cast Reacts To Shocking Season Finale (Exclusive) 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. “It’s been very gratifying to me because it’s not often that the bad guy gets any kind of emotional arc. 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.įor Esten, best known for playing Deacon Claybourne on “Nashville”, Ward’s heroic exit was a fitting one. 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).

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