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Hilarie Burton OPENS UP on shooting makeout scene in One Tree Hill; Says ‘I felt like a prostitute’
Hilarie Burton recalled crying in her trailer after one of her first intimate scenes with Chad Michael Murray.
Hilarie Burton got candid about a very difficult scene she shot while working on "One Tree Hill." The actress, who portrayed Peyton Sawyer on the series from 2003 until 2009, co-starred with Chad Michael Murray's Lucas Scott. Burton spoke out about recording a makeout session between Peyton and Lucas on the newest edition of her "Drama Queens" podcast. She further claimed that during a party, she was ordered to undress Murray as they kissed in his father's bedroom.
As per Entertainment Tonight, Burton Pointed out they were playing teenagers and shared, “Chad was cool to leave a white tank top underneath his button-up shirt so I wasn’t just kissing his bare body because that’s weird. We’d all known each other for a couple of months [or] a couple weeks? I was so whacked out about it. They wanted me kissing all the way down his body, down to his belt. I don’t know if you see it, but I had to undo his belt.” The actress said that she informed the episode's director that she would only perform two or three takes since doing more would be "inappropriate."
“I was, like, crying in my trailer. I’m like, ‘I don’t want to do this. It feels dirty. It feels like they’re trying to sex everything up,’” Burton recalled. “I felt like a prostitute. It was the first moment that I was, like, ‘I’m kissing someone for money. I’m getting paid to do this, like, performative [thing]’. There’s a morality thing where you’re like, ‘Am I a sex worker in a way? Is this OnlyFans in 2003?’' Burton went on to say how much her co-stars and crew backed her up. She said “All the women in the trailer got together and they’re like, ‘You may feel like you’re in this all by yourself, but we are here."
Interestingly, the remarks follow after an open letter written by Burton, Sophia Bush, and Bethany Joy Lenz, presenters of the “Drama Queens” podcast, and a number of other women accusing “OTH” creator Mark Schwahn of sexual assault.
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