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Hilarie Burton, Joy Lenz, and Sophia Bush<\/figcaption>photo: RONDA CHURCHILL\/AFP (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nThe female cast members of One Tree Hill<\/em><\/span> have been open about their complicated relationship to the series and its showrunner Mark Schwahn<\/span>. On a new episode of the recap podcast Drama Queens<\/em><\/span> <\/em>hosted by Sophia Bush, Hillary Burton, and Joy Lenz, the trio recalled the mind games played by Schwahn and OTH <\/em>higher-ups to coerce the women into posing for max<\/em> in 2006. <\/p>\n\u201cBecause Brooke had been so sexualized on the show, and the whole idea of \u200b\u200bthis ‘Hometown Hottie’ was Rachel’s storyline, I was like, ‘Look, if the girls want to do it, that’s great. I don’t. I have gone to battle trying to make Brooke less of this thing that you guys tried to force me into. I don’t want to do it,’\u201d Bush shared (per Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/span>). \u201cI literally got told, ‘If you do not go and shoot this cover with your costars, we will guarantee you that you will never be let out for a press day, a movie, an event, any of your charities. We will keep you here forever.’\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIt was such a profound threat and a threat to being able\u2014honestly, even to have the ability to escape for a weekend, a place that at this stage, this season, I was leaving every chance I got. I would come into work, do my job, and then I wanted out,\u201d she continued. \u201cI wanted to go home, I wanted to be with my family. I wanted to be with my friends. I did not want to be on our set, it was not a safe place for me. This was such a threat to safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schwahn (referred to as “our boss<\/span>\u201d) had a different tactic to get Burton to sign on, telling her, \u201c’Look, all the other shows have been on the cover of every single magazine and no one wants you guys. No one wants you. And you finally have someone that wants you, and you’re really gonna turn your nose up at that?’\u201d She was led to believe that \u201cthe studio wants to cancel your show,\u201d and \u201c’If you don’t start to generate some buzz, and attract these male numbers, we’re dead and all your friends are going to lose their jobs.’\u201d<\/p>\nLenz, meanwhile, was cut out of the shoot entirely for equally horrific reasons: \u201cThey told me that they didn’t come to me because I was too fat. I just wasn’t a hot girl on the show anymore.\u201d Burton and Bush recalled being told that Lenz turned the opportunity down, putting more pressure on the others to participate: \u201cThey scapegoated you to tell the three of us we couldn’t say no. They threw you under the fucking bus,\u201d Bush said. <\/p>\n
As you’d imagine, all of this carried over to the shoot itself. \u201cWe look uncomfortable, but in the room, I remember being like, ‘I’m looking at my friends, who look stunning, who do look like these ’50s pin-up girls, and this should be so fun but it’s miserable cause we didn’t choose it,’\u201d Bush reflected. She went on to point out the odd, mismatched Photoshop applied to her body in the photos.<\/p>\n
But the horror story doesn’t stop there: the co-stars also remembered Schwahn turning up to the shoot with a personal gift for Burton\u2014that he delivered in front of Bush and DanNeel Ackles. \u201cIt was an iPod that he had loaded with music he thought was applicable to me. He wanted Sophia to see it to put her in her place, and he wanted Danneel to see it to try and make her jealous. Who does that with a pack of 24-year-olds?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bush called the moment \u201cscary and uncomfortable,\u201d adding, \u201cA married adult man 20 years your senior. \u2026 I could see you collapse a little bit.\u201d Burton said, \u201cWe had actually had a nice day,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd he came in and just made this very visual move to be divisive and I was so embarrassed.\u201d It becomes ever more clear why so many women<\/span> felt that One Tree Hill <\/em>was an unsafe environment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hilarie Burton, Joy Lenz, and Sophia Bushphoto: RONDA CHURCHILL\/AFP (Getty Images) The female cast members of One Tree Hill have been open about their complicated relationship to the series and its showrunner Mark Schwahn. On a new episode of the recap podcast Drama Queens hosted by Sophia Bush, Hillary Burton, and Joy Lenz, the trio …<\/p>\n
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