TMC
11-16-2018, 09:43 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hilarie-burton-struggled-one-tree-hill-inappropriate-teen-viewership-lot-like-senseless-underwear-action-185220485.html
One Tree Hill was one of television’s most memorable teen shows, but its legacy has taken hits.
Of course, as the #MeToo movement exploded last year, members of the cast and crew accused showrunner Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment. Now, in a new interview, Hilarie Burton talks about how parts of the show — which starred Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush and ran from 2003 to 2012 — were inappropriate for the teen audience they were targeting, and said she and her female co-stars fought to try to change it along the way.
“Every girl on the show was written as a hooker with a heart of gold,” Burton, who played Payton Sawyer, told Cosmopolitan. “I was a square all through high school, so when I had to go back and do high school for the second time for One Tree Hill and my character was, like, walking out of the shower with her boyfriend … what? What are you talking about?”
One Tree Hill was one of television’s most memorable teen shows, but its legacy has taken hits.
Of course, as the #MeToo movement exploded last year, members of the cast and crew accused showrunner Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment. Now, in a new interview, Hilarie Burton talks about how parts of the show — which starred Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush and ran from 2003 to 2012 — were inappropriate for the teen audience they were targeting, and said she and her female co-stars fought to try to change it along the way.
“Every girl on the show was written as a hooker with a heart of gold,” Burton, who played Payton Sawyer, told Cosmopolitan. “I was a square all through high school, so when I had to go back and do high school for the second time for One Tree Hill and my character was, like, walking out of the shower with her boyfriend … what? What are you talking about?”