One Tree Thrill (Part 7)
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The royals of drama, just like we are, darling. We have a Q&A here for you. It's going to be pretty fun. It's just me and Hillary today. Hi, Hillary. Oh, babe. I love it when we're together. I do, too. This is fun. Let's get gossipy. Where are you right now? I'm at home at the farm. What's going on in your life? George had her little preschool moving up ceremony today. We had a diner date 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. It's coming along. I'm putting together a new house. So yeah, we've got some tile to pick out, got some grout to pick out, and trims and chandeliers and curtains and all those things. If you need a handy lady, I would love a vacay. Do you know one? Yeah, I might need one.

I might need a vacation away just to do some manual labor. That sounds like a treat. I would 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 lets us know that you're still there and you're engaged and 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? We never did a Christmas episode. Isn't that true? I guess not. We had multiple Halloween episodes and even a Thanksgiving episode, which I directed, but not Christmas. I'm curious to hear what you think. Interesting. You did the Thanksgiving one? Yeah. Well, we never even did like Hanukkah or anything. Okay.

Maybe that's why we've done so many Christmas movies as a unit. Do you know what I mean? 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. And then you're just like, you know what?

I'm going to 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. I'd be like, dude, dude, dude, what are you doing? So good. Yeah. We've got so many. Cause you've done them. You did.

You did, was the movie you did with Chantel's husband, Victor? Was that a Christmas movie? That's right. Yep. Victor and I did. Oh, no. Wait, was it a Christmas? Yes, it was. Five Star Christmas. It was a Christmas movie. It was fun, actually. We had a lot of fun. And I've done, let's see, one, two, I think I've done three Christmas movies now. Yeah. One with Andrew Walker, one a long time ago.

Three or four. I don't know. They're fun. It's always fun. 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 to do just like a holiday episode. 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—would have been fun. Yeah. Let's get into it. Oh, well. I don't know. Didn't you guys go on, like, a snowy trip or something? Yeah, we all went to Utah and did—I had an owl sit on my shoulder. Did you really? That was terrifying. Hillary, it was so scary. I've never—

I mean, I'm not scared of animals. No, you're not scared of anything. 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 talons and 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 peck my eyes out. Yeah. And I would have no self-defense whatsoever. Yeah.

So I like that. It's the not blinking that makes you unsettled. Like if a dinosaur or a wolf, as long as it blinks, you're fine. Let me tell you, if something does not blink, if a human, it's like Elizabeth Holmes. Have you ever watched those interviews with her where she just stares and she talks at her, like her deep voice and just stares at you. The no,

I don't know how 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. Yeah.

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 like to write notes and, you know, decoupage things. And we loved vintage shopping together and talking about Broadway. Yeah.

And what'd you say? I said, we're always trying to out artsy fartsy each other. Like, Hey, sweet collage. I see your collage and I raise you a flower arrangement. Okay.

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.

Oh, yeah, the upkeep. The upkeep of a relationship. Because there's always that spark at the beginning, but if you just expect it to be fair weather all the time, well, 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, I don't know how to talk to girls my age. Right.

And Soph 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 were 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 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 I was just like- Like my rainbow Nat Shermans with the gold filter. Yeah, the Fantasias. Yeah, the Fantasias.

Fantasious. And I was just like, this chick and I are going to be friends forever because you were angrier that I got dumped than I was. I was just like, I mean, I'm OK. And you're like, no, unacceptable. Unacceptable. Yeah, that was a magical afternoon. I was totally into it. I love you. 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 when your friends need you to show up. Yeah, you just got to go through and go through ebbs and flows. I mean, 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 got to put the work in. You got to do it. Friends, we all.

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Caitlin wants to know when we have bands perform on the show at Trick, do 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's uncomfortable for everyone. Can you imagine a big silent warehouse? 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. Oh my God.

You're right. I bet they did. I bet they had to just mouth it. They probably had like an earpiece or something with the song playing. Were we that fancy? I don't think we were that fancy.

We probably weren't. No, no. But okay, explain to them like why we have to have them mouth the words. Because it's not that they're not good musicians, but there's technical stuff. Oh, no. The technical stuff, 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 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 pretending to sing, but he can't actually sing because we need to hear Mouth's dialogue. So yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. They sometimes mouth the words and it's silent and very strange.

Well, and for editing purposes, too. 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 anyone perform afterwards, though? Like, because we hung out with a couple people after the fact and would, like, see them perform afterwards.

Sometimes they would just perform in town. Like in town or just at tricks still, like they'd just like roll around some more songs for fun. I don't know, actually. I'm trying to think if I saw anybody perform. Wow, they missed the boat. We would have been telling a great story right now. Pfft.

Well, thanks for the question, Caitlin. Yay. 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 TRL was the best training ever because they would show you a cue card in a commercial break that lasted a minute and 40 seconds. Wow.

And either you knew it or you didn't. And if you didn't, you looked so dumb. So it's sink or swim on live TV. Do they still hold up the cue card beside the camera? They do, but like...

That's what you use if you're not good. So it's like SNL. Nowadays, it feels like it's totally acceptable. When I watch Saturday Night 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 Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, you know, when those guys were doing it, they knew what they were doing. Yeah.

Yeah, it annoys me. I'm like, come on, step it up. You have a photographic memory though, don't you? Don't you feel like you just look at it and you know stuff? Yeah, I say it out loud a couple of times and I know it unless the writing is bad.

If the writing's really bad, it's a lot harder for me to learn. Because it's just listening. All you have to do is listen to what the other person has to say, and you should, however you're responding, should generally line up with what's on the page, give or take a couple of words, you know? I can't wait for us to do another job together when you can't remember your lines, and I'm going to be like, it's not her. It's bad writing. That's right. Who did this? That's it, you know? Who did this to her? Exactly. Yeah.

Also, doctor shows and lawyer shows are hard because you have to learn jargon. Or sci-fi shows. I did one sci-fi show, Joy, and I was just like, y'all, not my jam.

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Kelsey is wanting to know, after being on the show for so long, did we find it hard to escape the roles of Haley, Brooke, and Peyton in order to move forward in playing other roles on TV? Yeah, for sure. Of course. Anytime you watch a character, someone played 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. Yeah.

So by the time all that crossover stuff was happening, we had already been on the air for at least six years. And 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 LA 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. You did Dexter. That was so cool. I did land Dexter. That was killer. Pardon the pun. Mom jokes. Mom jokes.

I did get to do a few really cool things, which was exciting, but it wasn't nearly as much as I expected that I would get. And I learned some pretty valuable lessons in those following four years, really. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know. I disappeared for a whole year after. Like, I went, met someone, had a baby. No one knew I had a baby. Gave birth, was months out before anybody figured out that I'd done all that. So I went into lockdown, hiding. Did you find that it was—I mean, you were only on the show for four years, so it was a little harder to kind of peg you as—

one particular person because people really knew you as Peyton only for that period of time rather than like the full 10, you know, 10 years is a really long time for everybody. Dude, I did six and was like, see you guys later. I was also able to do 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, sign me up. Secret Life of Bees, sign me up. That,

That movie, like Christian movie, The List, sign me up. Like I'll literally do anything that's here. So smart that you did that. And there were little teeny, teeny, tiny roles. 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, Secret Life of Bees. I didn't even have any lines in that, you know. But the people I met were great. Yeah. Yeah.

When I finally did go back to work, it was White Collar, which, thank God, was such a different part. I don't know why. Very different. It was super different. And, you know, I've said it so many times. Tiffany Thiessen 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 bitch, Hillary. That show made you. It paid your mortgage. It put your brothers through school. Don't be a dick. And I was like, okay, yes, you're right. 100%. That's awesome. Yeah.

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 thing put that into their mindset. You're just the right amount of grumpy. You've got to be kind of 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. We do put water in it. Yeah, I put water in it. Do you feel like when you're a young actor, 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 as an older person, I'm always like, what the is this? This 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, I mean, at this point also, prop departments always just ask me, what do you want in your cup? Do you want real coffee? Do you want tea? Do you want water? What do you want? So I don't know. Is that still happening out there in the world? Yeah.

Empty cups? If someone wants to make a montage. Empty boxes is happening. 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 Thor or that was bad. Bad props. All right, Hannah, make a montage of all the empty cups on One Tree Hill. We'll laugh about it. Let's 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 two, go on hiatus, and then recreate the same scene for season three? Oh, I don't remember what she's talking about. Do you? What did we just watch? I do because I had to wear a wig. I cut all my hair off. Oh, okay.

And everybody did weird shit with their hair. Yeah. We came back and started like a pickup. Yeah, it was the fire at 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. I mean, and you were coming back from tour, right? I think so. Yeah.

But yeah, I don't think there was anything, a direct match. Baby, we lived for the hiatus. We lived for hiatus. I know. Well, 22 episodes is a lot.

Yeah, nobody does that anymore. I mean, 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'd 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? How to hit a mark?

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