The Runarounds Talk First Time Acting, Outer Banks, Senior Year, and New Series "The Runarounds"

Zach Sang Show

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Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Meet The Runarounds — both the cast of Prime’s new YA series and an actual IRL band comprised of singer/guitarists William Lipton and Axel Ellis, guitarist Jeremy Yun, bassist Jesse Golliher, and drummer Zendé Murdock. We unravel their origin story: who’s known each other since they were kids, who got involved thanks to casting call for a band for the series Outer Banks (another YA series created by Jonas Pate, who also helms this show), and just where do the real life band and the characters they play begin and end. Spoiler alert — there’s a lot of overlap. Their creative development as a band does mirror the arc of the show and some of the stories of how they were raised do wind up being mirrored in the script.

With the exception of William Lipton, who had a long-running role on General Hospital, all these guys were diving into acting head first with zero experience. We talk about all this plus, their indie rock influences, stunts, plot twists, moral quandaries, anxiety issues, learning to act in front of the lens, and why this took half a decade to hit our small screens. You can catch the full series on Amazon Prime Video now.

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0:00.0	Hi, beautiful human. I'm Zach. That is Dan. And today we welcome to the studio, stars of the new prime video series. They also happen to be a band of the same name. Say hello to the runaround. Yay. Hey. How are we doing? What's going on, y'all? Thanks for having us. Firstly, can we, like, introduce ourselves?
0:22.5	Sure.
0:22.9	Yeah, let's go down the line.
0:23.7	Okay, hey, I'm Zenday, Zendammar. I play drums in the band, and I'm very poor actor. No. Not true. Not at all true. I can't believe you let it. Hey, but your actor here. My name is Will Lipton.
0:36.9	I sing him play guitar.
0:38.7	And I think that's kind of all you need to know.
0:40.8	I'm passing it off to Jesse here. I'm Jesse. I play bass in the runarounds. And he's a great singer. And songwriter. Yeah, sometimes. You know how it goes. Bass player comes in with a song. He's came with a few of them. Hello, I'm Jeremy. I play guitar. I sing a little bit. Excite to be here. Nice to meet you. You as well. Hello, Jeremy. It's good to meet you. Hello, Axel. My name's Axel. Ellis, I play guitar and sing. Yep. Nice to meet everybody.
1:12.1	Very interesting.
1:13.2	Like, okay, can we, uh, how did you get involved in this whole thing?
1:18.2	Because, like, I want to talk about the origins of the band, but my understanding of the origins,
1:24.4	it's Outer Banks, right?
1:26.3	Like, you first appear as a band in that show, but is that really, but you're formed
1:32.4	before that because...
1:33.5	How much time do you got?
1:35.2	I have a long story.
1:36.2	I think we have a minute, actually.
1:38.1	It's quite the story.
1:38.8	I have nothing but time.
1:40.0	Because, like, is it true that the creator of both the runarounds and Outer Banks, Jonas Pat, did he find you in high school?
1:47.3	Jonas Payt found us pretty early on.
1:51.2	There's kind of a different story for some of us on how we ended up there.
1:54.8	I can speak on me and Jeremy's behalf really briefly.
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