One Tree Thrill (Part 10)

commute or whatever you're doing. Our our third little sister Joy is actually picking up sweet Maria from camp, and so she's commuting and the two of us are gonna answer some questions. Are you ready? I'm ready for I'm always ready. I really like kind of getting this feedback from the fans because I don't know. When I think back on our years of doing the show, I just think about three things. It's usually like blue post and and staying up late and hanging out in that trick

parking lot. So these guys jog a lot of memories. Thank you, guys. What I also like about getting questions from you all at home is that we don't realize what seems obvious to us, Like we know so much that we forget what we know, and so sometimes we just assume, you know, that that something is obvious or that it's a you know, maybe it was on the show, maybe it wasn't. We can't remember. Weirdly, we remember everything

and nothing. And so the questions that you the questions you guys sent us, like, for me, they really illuminate where the gaps are. Yeah, well here's a big, huge, no dub question. Brittany wants to know. Do you know why Karen chose to give Lucas the Scott last name instead of her own name Row. This troubles me mm hmm too because by the time of Lucas was born, deb was already what three months pregnant at least two or three months pregnant with Nathan, which would have trickled

back to Karen. I mean, Keith would have told her like, hey, Danny's knocked up some girl at college. Yeah, and he's going to marry her. But you know what it is. These are these are those moments where, at least as an actor, I look at it and I go because drama the writer has made that decision, because it's much more dramatic to have Lucas Scott and Nathan Scott going to tree Hill High, then Lucas Row and Nathan Scott going to tree Hill High. I want you to put

that on a T shirt. Because drama, because drama. Yeah. Perfect. Also, it's really sad. It's it's it's sad that, like Karen, who we know is this super strong girl, was potentially holding out hoped that Dan would be a part of Lucas's life. Like everything we know now is so gross, but you know that's what it is. What else do we got? Who's next up? Oh? I like this? Uh kim asks. You've talked about how you wish there was

a school counselor on the show. If you could go back and be that counselor, what advice would you have given to each of your characters or another character if you'd rather choose that, I'm a school counselor, so I may steal some of your advice. Oh my god, that now I suddenly feel I'm like, I was going to say something really sassy, but now I feel like I need to pontificate. I get serious. Man. Here's the thing. I would never put myself in a position to be

a counselor. I'd like to yes, and this question by asking like, if not us, who would you have cast as our school counselor. Yeah, because we had a really good actress player school counselor, but we should have had somebody long term. Yeah, God, I liked her so much. It's I don't know why I just had this thought, but best Armstrong popped into my head. There's a part of me that thinks like, oh, Haley's mom would have been the natural school counselor. And then it's like, of

course Haley would be a tutor. I don't know why. I don't know why. I feel like that would have been so cool and would have tracked for Haley's experience. Well, when I was growing up, everybody's parents worked at the school. It was like my mom was a school bus driver in middle school. My friend Maureen's mom was the substitute teacher. You know, like everybody's parents were involved with the school. We should have had more of that. Instead, we just

have Dan lurking around corners. Um, you know what would have been so cool? I like cool things. I think actually the coolest, like stunt casting we could have done. But that would have been really profound for us. Imagine if we brought Tiffany Feeson, like the queen of say By the Bell, to be the one steering all of us kids, like she helped you so much after you left the show, like and then she would have helped

us really topple some patriarchy and tree Hill. And she would have been so red behind the camera, like she would have been like you should have been like why are you wearing that? Right? Like? Who talked you into this? You don't want to be doing this. She's so cool, You're spot on. The advice as our counselor, I would die, I mean, can we go back? Can we can we go back and have a redo? Can we have her? Yeah, the hot counselor. She's so cool? Um. The advice that

you would give Brook, what would what would you tell Brook? Oh? Man, I I would have loved for someone in a trusted position, you know, a mentor to her to help her expand her purview outside of the high school, to just show her a little more of the world, to say, you know, this isn't it. You don't need to be picked by the boy here, you don't need to have this be your whole world? What what would you be capable of if you were looking at a larger slice of life?

And I honestly, I mean I wish that's it by somebody had given to us when we were twenty two. Maybrick Kelly did tell me that she was like, run, get up, and that's when we were like twenty six, and it already do a bunchillery run? Uh? Is that the advice I wanted as a teenager? Run? I mean I did that. Um. I just recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who's in their early twenties and they are going through it. I mean, she's hard.

And my advice was have fun, like you're you have the whole rest of your life to do the therapy and to think about this and to sort it out right now in your twenties, in this chunk of time. And that also goes for teenagers, and that that chapter, which is different than your twenties, but also like a significant chapter, prioritize pleasure and fun and like being irreverent and irresponsible. And Peyton didn't really do a lot of that.

So when she does it, it's really fun to watch because it's like oh my god, she's being such a little goober. Um, but it's rare, so prioritize pleasure. I'm gonna put that on my T shirt so for like, I'm going to write it down, do it. That's mom's advice. You got the whole rest of your life to sort your ship out. Um. Yeah, to take a little bit of the pressure off. I mean, I remember clue into some of the mistakes I've made. I remember at that age literally being like, oh God, like, if I've kissed

a boy, he has to be my boyfriend. If I am truly like winding up dealing with a human for years because I thought that was required. You know, I think too to let young people take the pressure off and just be like, it's okay to change your mind. It's okay to give something a shot and go. Not for me, it's that was a learning experience. Yeah yeah, hello, no one ever told us that was all right. Y'all should be out there collecting learning experiences. They're not failures,

they're just learning opportunities like girls scout patches. If we collecting boys like girl scout patches, that's prey. Yeah you know, yeah, that's a healthy belt. Um, what do they called a girl Scouts? What those sash? Is it a sash? It's not? Okay, all right, I'm gonna make you. I'm going to make you. I'm definitely making you a satch. Yeah. Wait, I want to make one for you. Okay, Trouble Rachel wants to know how much money do you think Peyton spent a

week on candles? She has so many candles she has lit and so many of her scenes. Well, Rachel, before the advent of social media and internet shopping, Um, we had to leave our house to spend our money, and like going to buy a record and a candle was kind of it. Like that's the sign of the times. That's all we had. Do you remember like going to witch shops and like buy an incense and stuff and

thinking like I'm so edgy, I'm so dark. Yeah I do. Yeah, now you got embarrassing, but I'm still into incense and which shop. Well, that's it. That's the stuff that we send each other. You'll grow. You want to candle? Um, I got you a deck of cards? What? Okay? So if you had to make a scented candle for Brooke, what would brook scent be? Oh? Man like season one Brook would be like vanilla and glitter like a scripper, but later season's Brooke would be complex and probably have

like leather and food. And I don't know what as smell as I like, um, it's interesting, which just came to mind. I'm like, sorry, I'm starting to think about the smells of Wilmington's like magnolia and azalea, and like, I'd love if we could have made candles that smelled like, Yeah, that place you first struck me as like a Guardino lady. I know, yeah, you have you have Guardinia energy. Oh thank you. I feel like pet can Peyton mm hmm. I mean I feel like Peyton might be a secret

Petuli freak. Do you know what I mean? Like, you know how people make fun of Petuli and it's like you hippie whatever. I feel like Peyton has a secret comfort. And I say this because my kids preschool, they make everything smell like Petuli, So your child comes home smelling like that, and it's a sensory thing they do on purpose, so that when they smell that, they know it's like safe and comfortable. So I will light incense in the

house sometimes. And Gus, who's twelve, will be like it smellst like it's mostly preschool mom, and I'm like, oh, it's a comfort thing. Yeah, that It is really incredible. What what kind of visceral memories scent can give you? You know, like when we watch Storm episodes of the show, all of us are like, oh, the smell of the sidewalks pointed in the rain, like we know it. It smells the way like a coin tastes exactly. Oh my god, in my bones, I feel that I want more of that.

I want a candle that smells like that. Well. Um, Grace Holcombe, who played Baby Jenny, was so cute during the pandemic. She started selling candles Baby Grace our baby g candles and she was like donating money to charity. And she's just such a good egg, that angel. Yeah, we love her. So if you're gonna buy candles, buy I'm from her next time. She's got a little sweet costar. Oh and on the subject of co stars, Annie says, if you could work with any costars, and you know

my answer, any co star besides each other? Again, who do you want to work with? Oh? So many people. I got to do a lot of this in producing those Christmas movies because it was basically like who want step Party? You know. The one person I haven't gotten to reunite with is um Cullen Moss and I love watching him on Righteous Gemstones on Outer Banks. He's all over. He just did the Staircase. You guys don't understand because he was just playing junk on our show and they

would throw him like goofy lines here and there. He's an amazing actor and as we get older, he's only getting better and better and better and like really growing into that gravelly southern character actor vibe. I would love to work with him again. I would too, That would be so cool. It's it's interesting. He always comes to

mind for me. All I want to do is go make a fun movie with Lee Norris and I just I just crossed one off the bucket list because you know, we've talked so much about how we'd love to work with Greenberg, and I just went into his how I did Junction with him and um, you know, for our friends at home. Brian Greenberg, who played Jake Jakalski, wrote this beautiful movie called Junction. It's a heartbreaker. It's about the opioid epidemic. It's hopeful, it's sad, it's truthful, it's

like all the things. And I played his wife that

I know. It really was fun um and it was it was just like such a beautiful experience and there was something so special that happened, because you know, sometimes you get a scene on its feet and it needs to be different than it was on paper, and it was a big It was really surreal, like in a gym basketball game, like flashback into our show, although obviously completely different, and I think our sympatico as friends enabled us to immediately drop into something and we were messing

around with the scene and we both realized what it needed, and on the spot we reordered all the dialogue, like we just rewrote the whole thing together and like to make it work for the walking and the thing and the cutaway and whatever. And it was so good. And he texted me like a week later. I was like, I'm watching the basketball seeing him crying, and I was like, we did it, and did it. We made a family.

We made a family and it still works, and like it was so special to have that experience of trusting your scene partner so much that you could dive into something completely unknown together and I think that kind of shorthand is what all of us will always have with each other. And it was very cool. Oh my god, Listen Buckley and I did a Christmas movie together and our director was like Angel. She was just like, are you too dating in real life? And I'm like, no,

I'm married with kids to other people. And he is engaged. No, actually he had just gotten married to Jen. I was like, so we're both married and she's like, but you too, like you guys get along, and I'm like, yeah, because we're part of the same club. Like once you go through our club, yeah, you're bound for life. That's it.

We're stuck. We we really lucked out. We have some really solid people that we get to bounce around with um and we've gotten to like travel the world with each other and talk ship in hotel rooms late at night. That's really how you connect. It's late night. You go to the hotel bar, you get a margharita, you order a pizza from Remember the night we shut down we shut down the hotel in Wilmington's We've ordered you pizza. We anticipate, like you guys being here for a while.

We feel that you're not leaving, but also we need you to eat more food because it is late and you've had a lot to drink. We're worried about you, guys. So Julie wants to know who was your favorite villain

on the show. M bing bing, Oh, Matt Bar. I hate that Matt bar plays like a sexual predator and like a super creep, because it would have been great to have a redemption arc for him, so we could have kept him around, because he's the loveliest, like Ah, that's someone who I wish we'd gotten to work with again on something different. I didn't. I don't think I ever told you this. Did I tell you about when I ran into him early pandemic days? No? Oh my god.

I was at the grocery store, like gloves, masks, all stuff, and I'm talking to my girlfriend Sam, who I was in my little pod with, and I mean, this is early early days, and I hear Sophia and I turn around and there is this tall, done gorgeous like Chris Hemsworth look alike in a tank top and shorts ripped tan.

I just was like, what who is And he pulls his mask down and it's Matt Barr and we just started like screaming in the grocery store, which really was a terrible choice because it was also in the moment where like all the shells everyone everyone was like boarding the frozen vegetables, so people like thought we were getting in a fight, and then we were like no, no, no, no, everything happy screams. Happy screams were just so happy and we stood there chatting and he is just a dreamboat.

It was so fun. Such an angel that one. Yeah, it's so weird how they always cast people younger than us to play older than us, Like Tyler was supposed to be older than us, Matt was supposed to be older than us, and instead they show up and they're like, such CUTEI pies. I know. It was also weird. It's striking me as you're saying this that they would often cast a nice sist people as the most terrible characters. It's an interesting choice. I don't know what that's all about.

Give them their Emmy's, give them, give them their flowers. Sweet. All right, Well this was fun. You guys keep sending questions. I really I just enjoy an opportunity to talk about Matt Barr and Greenberg, and really we're just talking about all the cute boys that we were. Does it all go back to the girl scout sash? I mean, yeah, what I'm on there, love them what I'm on there? All right? You guys are the best. I love you you. Hey, thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review.

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