Sophia Bush is talking out about her time on One Tree Hill.
Throughout an interview on the Chicks in the Office podcast, the actress stated there have been many negatives whereas engaged on the present.
“We had been in our early 20s taking part in highschool youngsters, however we did not know something. We had been infants… We felt like little youngsters,” Bush stated of her and the others who starred on the sequence, together with Hilarie Burton, Bethany Pleasure Lenz, James Lafferty, and Chad Michael Murray.
“After we look again now, we understand how younger we had been and the way naive we had been, and the way, sadly, we did not get to develop up on a set the place folks wished to reply our questions or assist us navigate any of the insanity of the early aughts.”
Bush stated that the general expertise was “truly form of scary and intimidating and complicated.”
“It was bizarre as a result of, in some methods, we had been handled like adults. Wanting again on it, we are able to see the methods wherein we had been fetishized, and we had this kind of lens of adultification put over us with this concept that we had been imagined to know every part and have solutions, and be, in the end, skilled,” she defined.
“After we did not even know what the technical phrases had been. It was like, ‘Get in your mark!’ And you are like, ‘What are you speaking about? What’s a mark? What do you imply?’ We had been anticipated to be these adults, and but, we had been additionally checked out form of as pawns.”
Bush and different feminine stars of One Tree Hill wrote an open letter against Mark Schwahn, the present’s creator, saying that they had been “manipulated psychologically and emotionally.”
Additionally they wrote that “just a few of us had been put in positions the place we felt bodily unsafe.”
Bush additionally spoke out towards producers of the sequence in 2018, saying they had been “actually deeply inappropriate” and that their conduct was “opportunistic and ugly.”
“We had grown-ups who we trusted, who now we perceive had been being actually controlling and manipulative, who did not need us to be shut ‘trigger they thought we’d band collectively and ask for more cash,” Bush stated.
“It is simply so bizarre, and people had been issues we weren’t conscious of on the time.”
“There was no social media the place folks had been speaking about these things and giving folks recommendation, and determining for those who had been being paid equitably,” she continued.
“We did not have any of that. We had been simply in the dead of night.”
One Tree Hill aired from 2003-12 on The CW.
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