One Tree Thrill (Part 7)

the royals of drama, just like we are. Darling. We have a Q and A here for you. It's gonna be pretty fun. Um. It's just me and Hillary today. Hi, Hillary, Oh baby, I love it when we're together. I do too. This is fun. Let's get let's get you right now. I'm gonna in your life. George had her her little preschool moving up ceremony today. Uh. We had a dinner day in the morning. Dad picked her up from school and now we're just like racing to get home and

get stuff done here at the farm. How's your house. It's good, Um, it's coming along. I'm putting together a new house. So yeah, I got some got some tile to pick out, got some grout to pick out, and uh, trims and chandeliers and curtains and all those. If you need a handy lady, I would love you. Yeah I might. I might need a vacation just to do some manual labor. That sounds like a true love that that would be so fun. Well, okay, listen, we have some questions, some

listener questions. We love you, guys. We love it when you send in your questions. It really helps us know what you're interested in us talking about as we continue the show, and also just let's us know that you're still there and you're engaged and um, your support means so much to us. So we're excited when you send us your questions. So here's our first one. This is from Megan, and she says, would you like for there to have been at least one Christmas episode on the show?

Do we never did a Christmas episode? Isn't that true? We had multiple Halloween episodes and even a Thanksgiving episode which I directed, but not Christmas. Curious to hear what you think into the sting you did the Thanksgiving one? Yeah, we never even did like Hanakha or anything. Um, maybe that's why we've done so many Christmas movies as a unit, you know what I mean? Like, I think you're right.

Once I started doing those, and I was like, all it takes is working with someone you don't like once, um, and then you're just like, you know what, I'm gonna be a bully and cast this myself and just cast all my friends, you know, and we started doing like Antoine was always my first phone call, d what are you doing? Oh? Yeah, We've got so many because you've done them. You did was the movie you did with Seawntell's husband Victor? Was that a Christmas? Right? Yep? Victor

and I did? Oh no, wait was it was? Yes? It was five star Christmas. It was a Christmas movie. It was fun. Actually, we had a lot of fun. And I've let's see one too. I think I've done three Christmas movies now, went with Andrew Walker one a long time ago. Uh, at three or four. They're fun. It's always fun. But but you know, we've got our I would love to have had a Christmas episode on One Tree Hill. Sure, that would have been really fun.

Did you just like a holiday? Well, considering we're all related. I didn't even think about that joy, Like I didn't think about the fact that Peyton and Haley are sisters in law by the time I left, and then our kids are all each other's cousins. And I think the chaos of a Christmas morning with the Scott family would be pould have been fun. Yeah, wild, let's get into it. I don't know. Did you guys go in like a

snowy trip or something. Yeah, we all went to Utah and did I had an owl sit on my shoulder and that one did you terrifying Hillary? It was so scary.

I've never I mean, I'm not scared of animals like everything, I'm very but the owl was so intimidating because you know, they don't blink, so it just is staring into your soul and those talents in the beak, and it's resting on my arm, and you know, one false move, like it could just decide it doesn't like me and then immediately pick my eyes out and I would have no self defense whatsoever. So I like that. It's the not blinking that makes you unsettled, like if a like dinosaur

or a wolf, as long as it blinks you. Let me tell you if something does not blink, if it's like Elizabeth Holmes maybe watches interviews with her where she just stares she talks and her like her deep voice and just stares at you. Don't we got from Christmas to the no blink. But I appreciate a transition. So I love the starter question. I love where we ended. Yeah, genius, All right, what's the next question? Look at Amy wants to know when did you all realize that you weren't

just work friends but more of this sister friendship. Did it happen at the same time for the three of you or did it happen first for two of you and then the third came along a little bit later. Well you want to give her the whole freaking journey. Oh my gosh, I mean it's epic. I think we realized pretty much right away that there was a real

kindred spirit connection. We're both super creative. We both have like really pretty handwriting and have to write notes and you know, daco page things, and we loved vintage shopping together.

And what did you say? I said, We're always trying to out artsy farts at each other, Like hey, collage, I see your collage and I raised you a flower arrangement also, but also though I don't want people at home, I think especially a lot of young women feel this pressure with all their relationships, not just like romantic relationships, but also friendships as well. They think it's like this magic spell you know that you'll just know right away

and it's love at first sight. And there is a lot of hard work that goes into relationships, the upkeep, the upkeep of relationship because there's always that spark at the beginning. But yeah, if you just expect it to be fair weather all the time, while you won't ever be much of a friend and you probably won't have many friends, no, And we both like I think to become an actor you have to come from kind of

a weird background. Where as a child, you hung out with too many adults and you don't necessarily know how to talk to your own peers, and so there's that feeling of like, what, I don't know how to talk to girls my age And so I have had that too, because she didn't come from a real high school experience and she's talked about that a lot on the show. So learning how to be a good girlfriend I think we were lucky to be surrounded by older women on our show that we're like, no, you guys are going

to need each other, not just today but forever. Yeah, Like, try and see the big picture. Whenever there was a problem, whenever somebody inadvertently hurt another person's feelings, to be able to have women around that reminded us, this too shall pass, and there's a bigger We have to have grace for each other. We have to make space for each other.

And you know, you can't expect everything to be perfect all the time, but you have to look at the bigger picture of the fact that you're going to be in each other's lives for many, many years, and you'll, like you said, yeah, you'll you'll want to have each

other there. I'm trying to think of, like I remember coming to your house after a boy dumped me and us like sitting out on your patio and like drinking tea and smoking like little like funny cigarettes like the super Skinny Kind and Brainbow Nash Charms with the gold filter, the Fantasious Fantasious, and I was just like, it's chicken, I are gonna be friends forever because you were angrier than I got dumped than I was. I was just like,

I mean, I'm okay, and you're like, no, unacceptable, unacceptable. Yeah, that was a magical afternoon. I was totally I love you too. Yeah, but so, yeah, the magic was pretty much right away. But it is so important to put time in show up. You just got to go through and and and go through ebbs and flows. I mean, I we've all been in and out of each other's lives for various reasons, and I'm so glad we're all back in each other's lives right now. But yeah, you're right.

You gotta put the work in. You gotta do it. Caitlin wants to know when we have bands performed on the show at trick, did they actually play or is it silent and they mouth the words? Well, it'd be weird if it were silent and they were mouthing the words like that, it's uncomfortable for everyone. Can you imagine a big silent warehouse? Um, Well, but didn't they have to do that if they were in the background. But like you and maybe you and mouth had a scene

where they had to have dialogue. You're right, I bet they did. I bet they had to just mouth it. They probably had like an ear earpiece or something with the song playing, so that fancy, I don't think you.

I don't know. We probably weren't. No, no, but okay, explain to them, like why we have to have the mouth the words, because it's not that they're not good musicians, but there's technical no, the technical stuff that they have to be completely silent because the whole room must be completely silent when actors are speaking so the sound department

can get the audio of the dialogue. So if you're doing a scene where that everybody's dancing and there's a lot of crowd movement and stuff and trick, and you're looking toward the stage maybe like over Hillary's shoulder to Lee's face, and the musician is on stage behind him, he's got to be it's pretending to sing, but he can't actually thin because we need to hear mouth's dialogue. So yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. They sometimes mouthed the

words and it's silent and very strange. Well, and for editing purposes to like they have to sing along to the track because if they're just doing like acoustic willy nilly live stuff, being able to match it up from all the different angles. It'll never work, so it's always going to sound like it does on the radio on One Tree Hill. Did did anyone perform afterwards? Though? Like, because we hung out with a couple of people after

the fact and would like see them perform. Sometimes they would just put in town or just at trick still like they just like roll some more songs for fun. I don't know. Actually, try to think if I can't remember, Wow, they missed the boat. We would have been telling a great story right now. Well, thanks for the question, Caitlin. Okay. Christina is up next. She wants to know what technique do you use to learn all your lines and how long does it take you to learn them? Do you

have any tips for learning lines fast? What do you do? Hillary? Honestly, that training that I got at t r L was the best training ever because they would show you a cute card in a commercial break that lasted a minute in forty seconds, and either you knew it or you didn't, and if you didn't, you looked so dumb, So sink or swim? Do they still hold up the que card beside the camera? They do, but like that's what you

use if you're not good. Um, So it's like SNL. Nowadays, it feels like it's totally acceptable when you When I watched Saturdayight Live, they're staring off at the card and looking off at it all the time. And it drives me crazy because that was not acceptable back in like the Danak or a Janeker and you know when those when those guys were doing it, they were they knew what they were doing. Yeah, it annoys me. I'm like, come on, step it up. You as a photographic memory, though,

don't you. Don't you? I feel like you just look at it and you know stuff. Yeah, I say it out loud a couple of times and I and I know it. Unless the writing is bad. Um, if the writing is really bad, it's a lot harder for me to learn because it's just listening. All you have to do is like listen to what the other person has to say, and you should whatever however you're responding, should generally line up with what's on the page, give or

take a couple of words. You know, Um, I can't wait for us to do another job together when you can't remember your lines and be like, it's not her, it's bad writing. It's so it's that's right, who did this? You know who did this to her? Um. Also, doctor shows and lawyer shows are hard because you have to learn that Sara or sci fi shows. I did one side Joy and I was just like, y'all not my jam. I know. Hey, Bachelor fans, it's Ben Higgins and it's

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That is good, I learned from the best Kelsey is wanting to know after being on the show for so long, did we find it hard to escape the roles of Hailey Brook and Payton in order to move forward and playing other roles on TV? Yeah, for sure. Of course, anytime you watch a character someone play the same character for a long time and not do a lot of other things at the same time, that's hard to break out.

And we were on that show coming up in a time when there still wasn't a ton of crossover between TV and film, So by the time all that crossover stuff was happening, we had already been on the air for at least six years and Um, it was just a little harder to make that transition, and I definitely felt that when the show was over, and I remember coming back to l A and going, okay, like I just got off a hit show. Let's get to work

and it was crickets. It was like, I was really lucky to get some guest spots and a couple of other things. Did Dexter that was so cool. I did Land Dexter that was killer at partner but mom jokes, Um, I did get to do a few really cool things, which was exciting, but it wasn't nearly as much as I uh expected that I would get. And I learned some pretty valuable lessons and was following four years really yeah, yeah,

I don't know. I disappeared for a whole year after, like I went, yeah, I met someone had a baby. No one knew I had a baby, gave birth, was months out before anybody figured out that I had done all that, So I went into to lockdown hiding. Did you find that it was? I mean, you were you were only on the show for four years, so it's a little harder to kind of peg you as one particular person because people really knew us. Peyton only for that period of time rather than like the full tent.

You know, ten years is a really long time for everybody. I did six and was like Sea Guys. Later. I was also able to do write other stuff while I was doing One Tree Hill, Like, yeah, I made friends with the local casting directors and would do literally any movie that came through town. I was just like, yes, Little Britain signed me up. Secret Life of Bees, sign me up that movie. But like Christian movie, the list signed me up, Like I'll literally anything that's here. Um,

so smart that you did that. And they were little teeny, teeny tiny rolls. But those relationships that you make when you you know, I would have to swallow my ego a little bit to do these, like you know, the Secret Levybies. I didn't even have any lines in that, you know, but the people I met were great. Um. When I finally did go back to work, it was white collar, which thank god, was such a different part. I don't know, very different. It was super different. And

you know, I've said it so many times. Tiffany Theson helped me not get a chip on my shoulder about the teen drama stuff. She's like, don't do it. Don't be a bit Hillary. That show made you, it paid your mortgage, it put your brothers through school. Don't be a dick. I was like, Okay, yes, you're right. UM's I think people still now expect me to be really grumpy. And I don't know if it's the Peyton or the Hillary, Like, I don't know, I don't know which which thing put

that into their mindset. Just the right amount of grumpy grumpy Hannah wants to know. I love. There's so many technical questions when a character is drinking from a cup. Why is the cup always so obviously empty? You can't just put water in it? Do you can't water in it? Yeah? I put water in it. Do you feel like, um, when you're a young actor, you you're too sensitive or you're too insecure to like ask and be like, hey,

can you put a little water in here? Because I feel like it's an older person, I'm always like, what is this? There's empty cup. It's usually only with the coffee cups that have the lid on them, because if it's a mug or something else, you I mean at this point, also, prop departments always just ask me what do you want in your cup? Do you want real cough, do you want t do you want water? What do

you want? Um? So, I don't know if that is that still happening out there in the world empty cups if someone wants to make box is happening empty We just did the moving in episode of like Brooke and Haley moving into the apartment, and I came in with a box that was massive but so obviously empty. Either I'm four or that was bad. Um. Alright, Hannah, make a montage of all the empty cups on one tree hill. We'll laugh about it. Do it? Okay? Last one? Here

we have Danielle. She says, Season three first episode opens right where season two finale ends. Did you guys film both episodes around the same time, or did you finish filming season to go on hiatus and then recreate the same scene for season three. Oh, I don't remember what she's talking about. You I did. We just watch you because I had to wear a wig. Um. I caught all my hairrow and everybody did weird with their hair. We came back and started like a pickup. Yeah, it

was the fire. It was Dan Scott. So like the fire, they only did once the big, huge, expensive stuff they did once and then they really wanted to milk it, you know, and make it last more than one episode. But no, my stuff was totally spread apart. Um. I mean, and you were coming back from tour, right, I think so. But yeah, I don't think there was anything during a direct match. Baby, we had the hiatus. We lived for hiatus, well, twenty two episodes. There is a lot. Yeah, no, what

nobody does that anymore? I mean it was It really did feel like high school because we would start shooting at the end of August and we would shoot through like May, which is the real school year, and then we take our summers off and everyone would go do cool stuff. And then when we come back together, it was always a party. Oh yeah, these are good questions. Lots of technical stuff. Maybe we should teach one of those master classes. What do you kids want to know

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