One Tree Thrill (Part 2)

doing this. You've been sending in such great questions. Honestly, we're a little giddy because you're reminding us of so many things you want to remember. So let's jump in, y'all. You want to pick a question to start with, yes, darling? Um, okay, So Ali asks, if O. T. H was filming now, who would you want to perform at Trick? I love

this question. Yeah, this is great, oh man. You know up and coming bands that you know, because it would be fun to break some bands the same way that we did on One Tree Hill, you know, bringing in newer, newer bands as an old lady that Olivia Rodrigo. Everyone kept being like, well, that's it, she's already famous, but basically every song she writes is like a broken Peyton love triangle. Like I appreciate that energy. Go get them kids. Yeah, I like her. I also think it would be fun.

You know, we're all in that stage of life where we're lucky enough that we have friends and cool bands, like I want to get all our friends to come to Wilmington's. Yes, Johnny Swim should come to Wilmington Bran and yes, let's get Kimbra out, and then I don't know, man Enjoy obviously you would have to sing a trip again O music. Yeah, you're gonna something super up be like what if Joy gets into like like E d M,

like dance club music, like get Robin? Can we just get Robin and do a leap and like the whole the whole electronic pop vibe happening to play a trick? That's the I can die happy? Are you kidding me? Now? Die happy? Robin to blow? Let's do this. I'm so into this idea. All right, what's the next question, Van says, who was the prankster on set? I guess Chad, right, Chad. Yeah, but also Tyler was his accomplice, like but he but like when he had little brother to come play, you know,

when Tyler come to town. The two of them were horrible, And I think it's because Chad had little brothers in real life and was just like, Yes, this is my comfort zone. Let's go, you know, terrorize people. Do You're really lucky that those two never burned down a sound stage with the amount of illegal fireworks that they say. God, I gotta say it was hilarious and scary, and I'm

just really grateful. A stink bomb. Second, which one of you jerks, someone decorated my entire trailer with Avril Levine pictures. Who did that? Wasn't me? That sounds like who did it? No? That was the voice that was yes, And I think they did like cutouts of her and we were like, do you guys have construction paper scissor? Like? What are going on? Why did they have so much craft? Ear? Yeah?

It was the voice. Um, all right, Carmen. If you could change your character's names, what names would you give them? I picked Brooks name. I would never change it. Yeah you did? Yeah, it was tera right, that's right. I picked her first and last him, and little did I know, I dubbed her with big Dick energy with what about I would I think Molly? I think Haley would have been a Molly would have been a good name for Haley, maybe like a little okay with I'm okay with Peyton.

Here's the thing that's like weird to me is that we continued to use that device of everyone naming their kids after like their last names and things and boring after like, I wish I could change my daughter's name, Yeah, what would you have changed it to? What was it? Sawyer, Sawyer George? Yeah, well yeah, of course, um yeah, you know, I like gender neutral names, and so I liked Sawyer for that. I like Peyton for that. But I also think like we could have been more creative. We could

have named her after Ellie or like my mom. We could have done like a you know, a thing there. But it feels a little like narcissism to continue to be like, I'm going to use my name for this child that I bring into the world. It was weird to me that when Brooke had kids, one of them was named Davis and then one of them was named Jude, Like, what was that supposed to be Julian for short. Am I supposed to know this? I don't remember, but it I just was like, why do we keep doing this?

Like it just like, well, Peyton named for at Auto Swayer, so I should name my son Davis obviously. Yeah, weird, weird al right, So that's what we would change. That's a good question. Well, thank you. Are the characters you ended up playing who you originally auditioned for. I think we've answered this and in the show before. We talked about this in the first few episodes. But yes, I mean I think we all auditioned for the characters that we I mean I originally auditioned for that part in Radio.

I mean that was the more extensive audition where I actually went and sat with Mike Toland and had a conversation. He was like, oh, you're a combative young woman. That's the energy we're looking for. So I didn't really audition for Peyton. It was like a tape. Yeah, you sent it a tape, I remember, and I read for Brooke and Enjoy. I remember I read for both for Brooke and Haley, but you knew you wanted to play Hailey, so you read even the Brook scenes as Yeah, that's

exactly right. Yeah, I love it. I was like, I'll let them think I'm a one note actress. As long as I get the job, then I can prove myself. But right now they just need to think I fit. You're so smart. Yeah, I love it. That a strategy that goes into that. Okay, Wait, I like this one. The two two two is asking us what's your go to lip sync song? I don't karaoke? Yeah, Like, what's your go to karaoke song? Well, I feel like you

got some Dolly Parton up your slave, Hillary. I've got two songs very different, Dolly Parton's apple Jack but also Shaka Khan. Tell me something good is it is a crowd pleaser. It's just the right amount of naughty and you don't actually have to be a good singer to sing it. You just gotta put your dits into it. You know. You gotta's so good that it. Wait, Joy, I've heard you do some Shania Twain. That is Oh.

I love my country music. Um. Honestly, the last couple of years, my favorite karaoke song has been UM dancing on my own And I just love singing Robin because everybody who knows it as soon as they hear it, because nobody ever sings it at karaoke. Um, because it is kind of a hard song and you have to be a professional to handle this song. Yeah, and so people in the bar who know it are always really excited to hear it. Come on, um and if nobody doesn't.

If somebody doesn't know it, then you know it's a good song to introduce them to. So those are those are my joy You have to do a dance album. What are we doing? Oh my god? Like a like a disco a throwback like dance disco club and sounds fun, Sophia, what are you singing? Baby dude? I really like to shock people. So my two favorite things to sing at karaoke are either Hypnotized by Notorious b I G or Redneck Woman by Gretchen Wilson. Woman. I like hip hop,

like like out out. When that comes on, Sofia turns into a different animal. I really do like college, Sophia. It's fun to throw a little bit of country music at people because they're just like, what is going on with this girl? And I love that. That's a fun question. Uh, what is it? Kia? Doyle is asking us, what was the moment when you realized O t H was a special show compared to other shows. First of all, I just want to say that I appreciate that you think

we're special. That feels nice. Yeah, I mean we have a moment when I guess t r L was a really big indicator. That was weird. That was that was crazy. It was a weird experience. It looks like something that you saw happening in movies. It was happening to us. And we were in a small town. We were we were basically in a little box together and we rarely went outside. You know, working on a sound stage is

kind of like being in a casino. You never know what time it is, and you're at work for like six and and we got up there and it was like it was like one of the biggest crowds TRL ever had, and it was for us, and you know, we were working for people who told us we were lucky to be employed. We were like, wait, what, what,

what's happening? Disconnect here. Honestly, for me, it didn't happen until after I had left, because I have a chip on my shoulder about how we were treated as women on the show, not by our bosses, but by the industry at large. Every other female on our contemporary shows had an endorsement deal for makeup, for hair, for clothing, for this, for that, and for whatever reason, like we weren't good enough for people to want to like engage with us in that way, or that's how I felt.

Maybe you guys didn't field, but I did. We were glossed over in a way that felt like we were getting picked last for Kickball, and then to leave the show and have all those other shows kind of peter out and our show to still be on the air even if I wasn't there, and then to have it be this like legacy show that people are naming their children after and are like watching from front to back

over and over again. When we went to conventions, that's when I realized, like, oh, we made something that I'm proud of you. Yeah that felt nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think there was something for me to even after we ended, because you're right, we we we were kind of we were kind of always treated like the kids who got to pick where they sat at lunch last, and and you know, there was a lot of other just sort of gross treatment of women existing in the

press the whole time we were on that show. That was really icky, and there's documentaries about it out now, yeah, there sure are. And and it was wild too to get past the show and see it still be one of the highest watch things on streaming. And it continues and it continues and it continues, and I almost feel like that's what made everyone else go, oh oh, they did the thing that everyone's trying to do and almost no,

but he can. And it It's almost changed for us so much after the show instead of while it was happening. You know, we had that special moment at t r L I. I remember, you know, Hillary, when you and me and Tyler Hilton went to the Mall of America and the whole place was full, and we we were

just like, what is happening? But you know, we had these little moments of surrealism and then we would just be on our little Honestly, I thought, because we were told so much like how replaceable we are and how our show was always going to get canceled. I was so gaso lit by it that I was convinced they paid people to show up at events. I was like, surely these are like re enactors showing up, like, you know, stand in line for seven hours to get an autograph. Um,

oh my god. Yeah. But you know, looking back on it in hindsight, we can be like, oh that was awesome. Yeah, I loved it. Yeah. What is um the one thing that you think people took away from our characters? And is it what you hoped for? That question is from Arian Blonde Arlane Arlane Arian Ariana, I don't know, stay with an accent, Arian Blondean. I like that. I don't know what. I don't know people taking away from your character.

I guess like I would want people to have walked away from watching Hayley knowing that, Um, I mean she did have a good backbone. We've talked about that before. I like Hayley's backbone. And you know, it's okay even even if you're overly stubborn, even you know you're not gonna you're not gonna miss out on the good things in life because you're a little too structured. Um, but maybe it's better to loosen up. I don't know, I'm babbling.

I don't actually don't have a good answer for Because joy your character means a lot to me, Like watching this back. I really love Haley for her constant evolution, you know, like she's constantly changing what she wants, who she is, what she is true while having these also really big things to consider, like her husband and her baby, you know, like so that that ability to grow and expect the people around you to grow with you is

something that I'm super love about Haley. That's awesome. Thank you. Yeah, I can see that. I appreciate that. Yeah, I think it's funny. It's a It's a similar thing that I would want people to see in Brooke is that you have permission to change. You have permission. Does it huge too?

You know, you have permission to own your space and who you are and to be unapologetic about the experiences that have made you who you are, whether they're good, bad, ugly, amazing you you know, you can always dig in, go deeper, dream bigger. Those are things that I that I love about her, and and it's I would say that, and and certainly the the being fiercely loyal to your friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean Brooke is a character that does like the biggest loop to loop and comes out how

did the season end? You're like a mom of twins. I love it. I hope your kids are just as wild as you. Honestly me too. I hope Brook Davis's kids are little Helian's um like Payton's like pain management. Do you know what I mean? After all the fan interactions we've had, because there were so many things that were like madly, you know, massive happening to her um, a lot of death, a lot of destruction, a good portion of my fan base has been like, oh, you

helped me navigate a thing. You helped me articulate how to move through this thing. And so I think the only thing we didn't do was light painting on fire. Um. You know, maybe I don't know what happened after I left, Maybe you guys did, uh. But I like that people use her as a tool to learn how to articulate trauma and move through it and know that there is another side of it. Yeah, because the other side exists.

It's just sucks. The Peyton was really great as that example of someone who holds on in spite of feeling hopeless,

in spite of feeling like everything's falling apart. And I think a lot of high school kids really need that to feel like they have a mirror to look into with UM, with character, especially you know, kids watching One Tree Hill, I feel like they've got somebody that's like, Okay, all these horrible things happen been but as an example of how you held on through all the dark stuff instead of um letting it just totally run you down

and take you down. Like Peyton just kept going. She kept holding out, finding the threat of hope and and holding onto it until things got better, which is sometimes just what you have to do in life. It doesn't always have to be like a bright sunny day. You could just be a day, you know, like, yeah, most of them are. Yeah, don't let perfect get in the way of good kids. It's a good day. Speaking of a day, Robin Greenland wants to know how many hours

a day we would fill. Basketball days were eighteen hours. I love unions. This this industry taught me the love unions because there's a couple of things that would save us. One was like the extras. They could only work so many hours, so when we had basketball days, we were limited in what they could afford to pay for UM.

But then working with kids, because the union says the kids can only work like you know, what thirty seven minutes a day, and so when Joy got her kid on the show, we all were like, we want to do scenes. Yeah, yeah, I'll do a show with kids any day. Sounds awesome. Yeah, that's true. Are our basketball days. It's funny because they hacked around that and they would get a group of extras for the first half of the day and then a group of extras for the

second half of the day a lot. So season one, our basketball days were like eighteen hours and then, um, you know, if you hear that a film set, for example, works twelve to fourteen, that means we're there fourteen to sixteen because we have to come in and get ready before camera rolls. Yeah, and while we're while we're getting ready in the morning, you know, getting into hair and makeup to make sure we look exactly the same every single day, because some of these episodes take place in

a day, but they shoot for eight days. You know, we're in the makeup trailer, running lines. Um, we're working in their rehearsing in stuff before we go to set, and the teamsters are there even longer. You know, it's like, ye, we're there longer than the set crew. And then the teamsters and the you know, the people setting everything up or there way before us and way after us. So there is a it's a pyramid of on a film set. Guys, it takes a long time. It takes a very long time.

I always used to feel kind of bad when people would, you know, come and watch us filming, because they'd be so excited the first day they got there, and then by like the second or third day, they were like, wow, so you're just still You're just still doing this, huh. They're like, yeah, guys, for you to have a forty five minute episode takes us like eight or nine days of sixteen hour days. We're sorry, it's not as entertaining as you'd hope. God forbid, it's a group scene where

there's like, you know, seven people in one scene. I mean, it's just it's going to move then all day long. Yeah, God forbid. You bring a guest on those days. They just so bored. I remember what I did Um one the movies that I did, Maria did a little cameo in because we were in Romania and she was with

me on set. It was so cute and there was a little like um hot chocolate stand that I was supposed to be buying hot chocolate and brownies from and so I'm interacting with the young boy who's taking who's has the speaking lines, and she was sitting right next to him taking my money. Um, and she, you know, she had so much fun. It was like two hours and it was cold, and we were over my shoulder onto them. The camera was over my shoulder onto them, and she does her little thing and takes her money.

She's actually very good, and she really was, but you know, she's just counts the money on her own and she's doing all her own little acting things. And I was like, wow, this is great. And then we go to lunch and then she says, Okay, Mommy, I'm gonna I'm like, oh no, no, maybe you have to stay. We have to turn the cameras around. She just looked at me, like, you've got

to be kidding me. Wait. I said, yeah, it's probably gonna be another two hours, maybe three, and she just was like, uh, that was the last time she ever wanted to do anything on so ridiculous, take so much time. Yeah, well, I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. You guys not. We lived together, That's why you know philm film sets are like you know, incestuous and weird. But we're together all day, every have fun day. These were

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