One Tree Thrill (Part 9)

from Julia. Julie wants to know, when faced with a tough day on set, what did you do to unwind? Karaoke hiding one of your trailers. I'm down town. I would leave set and just walk straight to a bar, Like I wouldn't even go home, because I knew i'd get there eventually. We were just either Level five or Yosake or where else did we go? Deluxe? Oh? Yeah, like if we wanted to eat, Yeah, but I'd sit. I'd have dinner there and then I'd sit at that bar, like with Paul and Hank for so many hours. I

just sit there until they closed. Oh the French place. We used to go to the upstairs French place. Caprice, Yeah, Caprice upstairs, Yeah yeah. I mean I don't know that there was anything. It's just like I think anybody else has a hard day of work and they just go they want to go have a drink with a with a friend and take a load off, go home, just bury yourself in your apartment and watch a movie or something.

Well joy you would go home in like so beautiful clothes, like you you know, like a craft or something that I would get into. Also having an animal helps. It kind of depends for me. Did I need to shake it off by like being alone and you know, taking Patch for a walk, or did I did I need to shake it off by like going with you guys to karaoke and slamming to tequila shots and like swimming, Like I don't know. It kind of depends on what

kind of a day you've had. I don't think there's necessarily a standard, but I will say I think it's important to acknowledge what you need, whether it's a moment of introversion or a moment of extreme extraversion. You know, listen to yourself. That makes so much sense. Give yourself, what you need, take care of yourself because doing you

feel that that juxtaposition makes so much sense. So because now that I'm thinking about it, I went out so much downtown because I was so moby on the show that I felt like I had to be turbo fun outside of work. But in subsequent jobs where I have to be a ton of fun and kind of loud, that's when I want to just go home and be like, I'm just going to be a grand Crochet's balance m hm, balance, right? Are we still doing those things? If it ain't broke,

don't fix it. I don't know, you guys. This weekend I went we were out visiting friends and we went to this like really fun party on Saturday night and there was this great DJ and everyone was like, oh my god, we're outside and we're dancing and it's great. We went to a college book after. I didn't know it was a college bar there, no, but we were there.

There was a cover band playing incredible music. It was like me and ten friends who are all our age, like like, you know, my friend was a magazine editor like grown ask people, and we were in the corner of a college bar, just like dying having the time of our lives. I got asked out by it a kid who could not have and I just was like, oh you sweet, you sweet, you sweet sweet boy asked me again, ask me again. I just want to hear it. But thanks. It was. It was adorable. You have to

go now. I love so like, I don't know. Are we still doing that? Yes? Have I done that in years? No? Was it fun? Absolutely? Can we promise to be like seventy five year old women still doing that? Absolute? Yeah? Yeah, college bar. We're going to be forever. Put that on a shirt. We're gonna be fun forever. Alright, We're gonna be fun forever. Joy. You got a question? What? What's the question she wants to know when filming the costumes segment with Chad. Okay, so I think she's said with

the Halloween episode, what was it like? Was it as much fun as it looked? And how do montage segments work? You want to walcome through a montage? Yeah, Usually they just set up the camera on one side and Chad would go in the dressing room, come out, uh with all his outfits, do fun stuff, and then he would go back in and then he would we would he

would do it again. He would just do it like six or seven times until all the costumes were done, and then they would turn the camera around, uh and put it where Chad was standing and just shoot all of my reactions to all of those outfits, and any of the outfits that they wanted us to be interacting in. They would shoot us. I don't remember which angle it was from. They probably just picked one of the angles and then they would just shoot our interactions from a

little bit further back. We pull the camera back like a master, right, yeah, it's a master. And then they just had all the singles. It does take quite a while. I'll have to say it's it's always it goes so fast, but it takes a while to set those up. But it was fun. Yeah, we had fun that day. I remember enjoying that. I was just I didn't have to change a million times. It was like, let him do it. I'll stand here. It's always funny when you watch a montage and you go, god, that looks good. We did

that for eight hours. Yeah, we made it look great exactly. You made it look so spontaneously. That is an iconic scene. Let's see Tracy asks, do you see a parallel in the relationships between Lucas and Peyton and Brenda and Dylan Beverly Hills nao O. I never thought about that. I

never really watched it wasn't allowed. Well I was, and then my parents watched an episode once while I was at camp, and I don't know, somebody, somebody had sex with somebody behind somebody's back, and then I wasn't allowed to watch it anymore. So I don't I have no idea because I was banned from NATO two and O because I think pretty early on, yeah, we were babies. Brenda and I was also banned from watching Dawson's Creek too.

Like I remember when Dawson's Creep premiered, I had all my girlfriends over and it was like we were pumped. We were like, we were watch this show together every week. It's gonna be so fun. And these like senior boys came over to like see us and visit, and we were like, oh my god, this is so cool. This high school high school is gonna be the best time ever. And then Pacy started sleeping with his teacher. My mother was like, no, we are not we are not watching

this show. This is smut and so I grew up to make smut. You're like, well, you didn't let me watch it, so I'm gonna go. And you know what, parents, you you pull the reins in too tight and then they just go crazy when you let him go. You gotta gotta just be real careful, wild careful. That's true. Angelica wants to know if we ever noticed that the writers use and I love you for that all the time and scenes. I never noticed that. If you haven't, if you haven't, now you will. I love you for that.

But blah blah blah. Yeah, no, I never clopped that. When there's a couple that I know that they felt real cute about, like well, well this one, wells or hey, pretty girl. That was another one that was like mm hm, I used a lot. All right, well this one's gonna be like a you know, brain worm. We're stopped it now. Nia wants to know. I know that Joy and Sophia

have directed multiple episodes of the show. In your podcast with Lindsay mckinn, you discuss how there is eight days of prep, eight days of shooting, and eight days of post production. How did you as actors manage your schedules as actors but also directors, and how did pre production and post production work while also shooting the episodes with different directors. That's a great question. The will the pre pro and post pro work while shooting episodes of different

directors was easier? I mean for me, it was easier, so if you can speak for yourself. But because I wasn't on set, I was. I was on set working on my own stuff, and then I would leave set and go do post or that just felt like a separate job. So it was any time I wasn't on set, I was just in an office doing something that had absolutely nothing to do with the acting I was doing

that day, So that made it a lot easier. I did not like being on set as an actor and then directing myself at the same time, and having to direct the people I was in a scene with, because as an actor, I prefer to be in the moment in the scene rather than judging someone else's performance, um, which you have to do as a director. So it's kind of I didn't love that aspect of it. Yeah, I understand that. So I think one of the just sort of technical things that would probably be helpf to

fill you guys in on at home. As you know, for example, when we would be directing and we would be in our pre production time, a director who is not acting on the show gets all eight days to prep. We did not. They would definitely try. You know, let's say I was directing episode eight of the season, they

would try to block my days in episode seven. So they try to cluster your scenes together as much as possible, so that you might be act all day on Tuesday, but then you could go prep all day on Wednesday, while you know, Brooke would be off all Nathan and Haley would be having a day at their house or something. Um, but you definitely did get less time. I think what helps really make up for that is we started directing years into being on the show. We knew every location

like the back of our hands. We we had shorthand with the crew. We knew what, you know, the lighting looked like at trick for concerts. Yes, there were things we were you know, designing and create, but we already had ah the deep intimate experience with most of our sets. Um, if you had to go find a set, you know, specific for your episode, you would location scout on a

day where you were not acting in the episode. That was filming before yours and then post to Joy's point, you know, you'd run in if you had a scene off, you'd run into the office and jump back in the edit. But with directors, UM, you do not get final cut. You know, the producers and creator of the show get the director's cut. Then they make whatever edits they make because they do an edit on every single episode, which

really creates a cohesion, um with the story. And sometimes they don't have a lot of notes for you, and sometimes you know they disagree. UM. Never do you really think something is amazing us know what opinions we've I know what those are, UM, But I yeah, I definitely enjoyed um juggling all those things for me, you know, being so many years into our show directing in ways, you know, when let's be honest, you do every you do the same thing every day for years, you get

a little bored. It's not a bad thing, it's just human. And as a director, I fell in love with our show all over again, over and over again every year, and I really cherished that experience. Um. Nicole says, is there a reason why Bevin and Antoine have the same names as the actors that is it laziness with the answer,

I feel like it is. I feel like they were just like, let's not worry about tracking too many people, Like I don't want to have to deal with like a new remembering new character's name cast in the history of television, there's eight billion people on this show. Just call them by their real name. It's fine. Yeah, I think that. Well, you know what happened. I remember when

Bevin came on the show. She was saying that there was an episode where, you know, long before she'd ever actually been cast to speak as an actor, where she was just a featured extra, you know, being one of

our cheerleaders they had when we were doing cheer practice. Um, yes, to make it easier, they had us, you know, me and Hillary calling all of the girls who were our cheerleaders by their real names m which is such a weird thing because you know, the writers are like, oh, well, you know, these are featured extras, Like, we don't know if these girls are going to stick around, like call them by their real names, you know, you know some guy don't say who said in the room, Like, well,

it's not like they're ever going to talk. And then like Bevin became a star on our show, and they were like, well, well she has her own name already, so that ship is sailed. I don't know how it happened with Antoine though. How confusing for the fan base though, like to like see her out in the wild and be like Bethan, I know, talking about blurred lines, so weird, but our show. That was kind of the magic of our show is that no one ever knew what was real and what was it turns out a couple of

things are real. Hillary, what is your best personal life hack tip? Farming advice, keeping cooking, makeup because you're the you're the farmer. Yeah, let me. You know what I should do is I should just start doling out makeup and fashion advice because we know I'm so gifted at that. That question is from Alicia. By the way, Alicia, this is a vague question. I don't have a problem with vague, but um my life hack tip. Okay, find the fun

and failure. Like we we can laugh about it after the fact, like we can go back and watch episodes of the show and be like, oh oh that was a look yuh or that was a choice. But it's hard to find the funny in your failures, like in the moment, in the present, that's true. Mm hmm. This

is a great question. I wish I had a great answer, because I feel like there are things that I do on a daily basis that are unusual and help, but I don't know what they are unless I have somebody who's hanging out with me for the day and they're like, what are you doing? And then I am like, I'm doing this, and then they go, oh, my god, that's genius, and then I'm like, I know, but I don't like

write things down. No. Sophia and I felt that way when we hung out by the bar in your kitchen and you just started like making the lick sers and and we were like, We're like, what's going on? Yeah? Mine? I wish mine were cooler and involved cocktails. But something that I have found really helpful in minimizing chaos is just setting a couple of rules. Like any time I walk in my house, I put my keys in the little key drawer in the little console table next to

the front door. And if I don't, then the next day I can't leave my house for an hour because I'm running around looking for my keys. So it's like that's I know. I'm sure that sounds silly, but there's like some things that if you can just take care of it right away, it'll reduce the time that it takes you to fix it later. And that has been a good adult life hack to learn. Those key gremlins are the worst. Take them all. Oh, I have one,

you know. Here's it's a skin hack. Um. I have been the first thing when I wake up in the morning, I put water on my face, and I don't dry my face. I just splash water on it and let my skin absorb the water, and then I put on a really thin layer of vitamin E oil and often that's all I'll do. Um there, especially if I'm traveling and stuff. UM. So, I don't know. I have a sort of a Mediterranean mixed skin type. So I don't think that would work for everyone. I can't imagine every

nobody's not everyone's skin is the same. But if you have sort of all of them that Mediterranean like uh normal, I guess medium skin type, Um, you might you might try that. My skin has never looked like dowier and glowier and had less problems than when I'm just using water and vitamin e oil done. I love you guys too. Thanks for your questions everyone. Next time, Hey, thanks for listening.

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