Fans of One Tree Hill will bear in mind the second Hilarie Burton, Sophia Bush, and Danneel Ackles appeared on Maxim journal again in 2006. The males’s journal is understood for its horny pictures of trending celebrities, so when a trio of stars from The CW teen drama graced its cowl, it was a giant deal. But apparently, the solid members themselves have been much less enthused behind the scenes.
Burton, Bush, and Bethany Joy Lenz now have an iHeartRadio podcast known as Drama Queens the place they dissect every episode of the present. In the November 28 episode, “It’s a Fiasco – Ep 404,” the subject of the notorious cowl got here up, which was featured within the episode. During their chat, Burton and Bush famous that they initially tried to show down the quilt, however they have been advised taking part was not non-obligatory.
Burton (who performed Peyton) recalled a manufacturing assembly the place the thought was offered as a make-or-break scenario for the present. “We were given this very friendly soft pitch: ‘Look, all the other shows have been on the cover of every single magazine, and no one wants you guys. You finally have someone who wants you, and you’re really going to turn your nose up at that?’” the actress remembers a producer saying.
“We got told we had to do it,” Bush (who performed Brooke) mentioned. “Because Brooke had been so sexualized on the show and the whole idea of this Hometown Hottie was Rachel’s [Harris’ character] storyline, I was like, ‘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 have tried to force me into. I don’t want to do it.’”
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She continued, “I literally got told: ‘If you don’t go and shoot this cover with your co-stars, we will guarantee 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.’”
Lenz, who starred as Haley, didn’t seem on the quilt, however when she revealed why, the others have been shocked.
“They told me that they didn’t come to me because I was too fat, and I just wasn’t the ‘hot girl,’” she famous.
One Tree Hill creator and showrunner Mark Schwahn was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017 by each the writers and the solid.