Hilarie Burton, Bethany Pleasure Lenz and Sophia Bush arrive for the iHeartRadio Music Pageant on the T-Cellular area in Las Vegas, on Sept. 23, 2022.
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Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton and Bethany Pleasure Lenz are getting candid concerning the not-so-glamorous moments throughout their time on “One Tree Hill.”
In Monday’s episode of their re-watch podcast, “Drama Queens,” the actors dived into the Season 4 storyline the place Bush’s Brooke Davis takes images of Rachel Gatina (Danneel Harris Ackles) for the duvet of Maxim journal’s “Hometown Hotties” difficulty.
Only one month after the episode aired in October 2006, the three girls of “One Tree Hill” landed their very own Maxim cowl that they didn’t need to partake in — however they didn’t have a selection.
“We received informed we needed to do it,” Bush, 40, shared.
Bush and Burton, 40, claimed that present creator Mark Schwahn — who was accused of sexual harassment by the solid and crew in an open letter in 2017 — threatened to fireplace them in the event that they refused to do the shoot.
Bush stated that she didn’t need to do the journal as a result of her character Brooke, who was presupposed to be 16 on the present, “had been so sexualized.”
“I used to be like, ‘If the ladies need to do it, that’s nice. I don’t. I've gone to battle making an attempt to make Brooke much less of this factor that you simply guys have tried to pressure me into. I don’t need to do it,’ ” she stated.
“I actually received informed: ‘In the event you don’t go and shoot this cowl along with your co-stars, we are going to assure that you'll by no means be let loose for a press day, a film, an occasion, any of your charities — we are going to hold you right here ceaselessly,’ ” Bush continued.
Burton, who performed Peyton Sawyer, stated Schwahn informed her that “no [magazine] desires you guys.”
“We got this very pleasant smooth pitch: ‘Look, all the opposite reveals have been on the duvet of each single journal, and nobody desires you guys. You lastly have somebody who desires you, and also you’re actually going to show your nostril up at that?’ ” Burton shared.
“It was very a lot a, ‘Nobody desires you, the studio desires to cancel your present. You don’t begin to generate some buzz and entice these male numbers, we’re useless and all your mates are going to lose their jobs,’ ” she added.
When Lenz, 41, shared that she was changed by Harris Ackles for the shoot as a result of she was informed she was “too fats” to be on the duvet, she left her co-stars shocked.
“They informed me that they didn’t come to me as a result of I used to be too fats,” the actress, who performed Haley James Scott, stated. “I wasn’t a ‘sizzling lady’ on the present anymore.”
Bush and Burton had been shocked — admitting they had been lied to and informed that Lenz refused to participate.
“After I stated I don’t need to do it, I used to be like, ‘However Pleasure’s not doing it! She stated no. Why does she get to say no?’ They go, ‘Effectively she stated no, so it's a must to say sure. She stated no first,’ ” Bush shared.
“They scapegoated you to inform the three of us we couldn’t say no. We weren’t mad at you, however we had been pissed about it.”
The ladies additionally claimed that Schwahn confirmed as much as the Maxim shoot and gifted Burton an iPod stuffed with songs he thought she’d like — and he did it in entrance of Bush and Harris Ackles.
“He wished Sophia to see it, to place her in her place, and he wished Danneel to see it, as a result of he was making an attempt to make her jealous,” Burton stated. “I used to be so embarrassed.”
Bush shared that this habits made the surroundings on set “such a risk to security.”
“At the moment, I stated, ‘No, I don’t need to do that’ and was informed I needed to. It was such a profound risk and a risk to have the ability to — truthfully, even to have the flexibility to flee for a weekend, a spot that at this stage, this season, I used to be leaving each probability I received,” Bush stated.
“I might come into work, do my [scenes] and I wished out. I wished to go residence, I wished to be with my household. I wished to be with my pals. I didn't need to be on our set. It was not a secure place for me.”
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