“Should I cut all my hair off?” Madelyn Cline asks, pulling her blond waves out of an updo. “I was thinking of getting a pixie cut and—”

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KJ Apa cuts her off: “No, no, no,” he says, incredulously. “You’re crazy right now—you’ve been working too long. When you work too long, you start thinking, Maybe I should dye my hair pink, or maybe just shave it all off! I love your hair. Don’t chop it off.”

It feels like I’ve crashed a private catch-up between friends versus what I’m actually doing, interviewing two costars on a press tour. The actors each rose to fame on the waves of teenage TV catnip; Madelyn on Netflix’s hit Outer Banks ,¹ KJ on the seven-season CW show Riverdale . And now their paths—and palpable chemistry—have converged in The Map That Leads to You ,

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