Hilarie Burton is looking back at a very uncomfortable day on set of One Tree Hill with the show’s creator Mark Schwahn.
07.08.2023 - 19:45 / usmagazine.com
Sophia Bush did not hold back about her disdain for Brooke and Lucas’ story in One Tree Hill’s 100th episode.
“You guys, this never made sense,” Bush, 41, confessed to cohosts Hilarie Burton Morgan and Bethany Joy Lenz on the Monday, August 7, episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast. “As soon as it started I was like, ‘ah f–k, I know what’s coming.’ Because they wanted to get into the storyline of Brooke wanting to have a kid.”
In the 100th episode of the WB/CW drama, Bush’s character Brooke Davis admits she wants to have a child at 22 years old after achieving her career aspirations. Bush, for her part, found her new character’s arc to be “super weird” and didn’t like the idea of having a baby fill a void for her character. “A baby is not a Band-Aid,” she quipped.
Bush went on to criticize that the episode was “dripping” with misogyny due to the lack of women writers involved at the time. On the show’s credits page, Mark Schwahn was listed as the sole writer of the monumental episode. (Bush, Burton Morgan and Lenz as well as several women who starred on the nine-season drama have accused Schwahn of misconduct several times since 2017.)
“And, by the way, you can see who wrote this episode as a solo writer and the misogyny dripping from it with, like, ‘I’m so unfulfilled, I’m successful but I’m empty inside cause as a woman I can’t possibly be happy unless I have a baby,’” Bush stated. “This whole episode is dripping with we did not have any female writers in the room get to edit this or do a polish on its grossness.”
In the series, Brooke dated Lucas, who was portrayed by Chad Michael Murray, in high school. Burton, now 41, played Brooke’s best friend Peyton who also had feelings for Lucas. During the 100th episode, Brooke was
Hilarie Burton is looking back at a very uncomfortable day on set of One Tree Hill with the show’s creator Mark Schwahn.
https://t.co/F7qO8RynN0 #OTH @Represent pic.twitter.com/WX7LLc89K4— Chad Michael Murray (@ChadMMurray) November 12, 2020Chad Michael Murray, who played Lucas Scott on “One Tree Hill,” went through many changes since his days on the show. Murray left the series at the end of Season 6, but returned to make a cameo in Season 9. Since then, he and his wife, Sarah Roemer, have welcomed three children, the newest a baby girl in 2023.
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Bethany Joy Lenz is sharing new details on her time in a cult — and the role her One Tree Hill co-stars played!
Bethany Joy Lenz' "One Tree Hill" co-stars attempted to "rescue" her from the cult she was a part of for 10 years and the alleged "spiritual abuse" she faced. "It was open with them. It was the whisper behind the scenes, like, 'You know, she’s in a cult,'" Lenz told Variety in a new interview.
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Bethany Joy Lenz is opening up about her time in a cult. In a new interview with, the 42-year-old actress reveals that her castmates on tried to get her out of the cult she was a part of while starring in the teen drama.Lenz, who joined the unnamed cult «within a year or two» of the show's 2003 premiere, notes that she was «open» with her co-stars — who included Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty — about the group with which she was involved, a topic she first discussed on her podcast in July.«It was the whisper behind the scenes, like 'You know, she's in a cult,'» Lenz recalls.
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