“One Tree Hill” alum Hilarie Burton has many fond reminiscences from starring on the hit WB/CW teen present within the 2000s.
However there’s one factor particularly that the 39-year-old remembers fairly vividly.
She revealed on Monday’s episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast that she was “uncomfortable” when filming intercourse scenes that confirmed off her ft.
Why? As a result of the previous MTV VJ would typically obtain jail mail from jailers who have been obsessed together with her toes.
Burton referenced the 2005 Season 2 episode, “Someplace a Clock Is Ticking,” which options her character Peyton Sawyer having relations together with her beau Jake Jagielski (Bryan Greenberg).
“There was a pair dudes particularly that have been like, ‘I’m gonna lower your ft off and put them in my fridge,’” the “Strolling Useless” actress instructed hosts and “OTH” costars, Sophia Bush and Bethany Pleasure Lenz.
She added that the letters she acquired have been “very particular” in nature and he or she additionally started acquiring these so-called love notes when began working for MTV within the early 2000s.
She continued, “And I had a factor about my ft on TV. I’d all the time attempt to, like, disguise my ft as a result of I used to be similar to, ‘I don’t need them to assume I’m baiting them,’ ?”
Throughout filming for the episode, Burton stated the director, Billy Dickson, desired to shoot the intimate scene from an angle that confirmed “our ft and like our legs rubbing collectively” with the digital camera “developing our our bodies.”
Nonetheless, Burton thought the course was “means too grownup” for a teen present about excessive schoolers.
She determined to hearken to Dickson and positioned herself for the shot as a result of “it’s a lot tougher to say ‘no’ to somebody who you want and respect than it’s to say it to a complete stranger who’s simply coming in to direct for 10 days.”
“Again then, it was on movie and also you simply needed to belief what was occurring on the monitor was what you requested for,” Burton stated. She additionally famous that she begged the crew to not begin the scene with the shot of her ft.
Whereas she was notified that it might be blurred in the course of the modifying course of, her ft wound up being totally seen within the shot.
“One Tree Hill” aired from 2003 till 2012. Burton left the show after the sixth season alongside star Chad Michael Murray.
Burton revealed in a 2009 interview with Entertainment Weekly following her exit, that her determination to depart the drama was not a “rash” one, describing her friendship with Murray, 40.
“Chad and I are good buddies,” she instructed EW. “I gained’t converse for him, nevertheless it was not a rash determination on both of our elements. He’s very compassionate towards the present and the followers. It’s not a straightforward determination, however we’ve acquired to be grown-ups generally.”
For Murray’s half, the Los Angeles Times reported that same year that he departed resulting from contract negotiations.