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Hilarie Burton Morgan needed to comply with in her One Tree Hill character’s footsteps by beginning her personal report label — however creator Mark Schwahn had different concepts.
“I used to be speculated to [start a music label] with our boss [Mark Schwahn]. That was the entire schtick,” Burton Morgan, 41, mentioned on the Monday, September 4, episode of her “Drama Queens” podcast, which she cohosts with fellow OTH alums Sophia Bush and Bethany Pleasure Lenz.“When he was mentoring me, we had been going to start out a label and that was the carrot that was dangled.”
Burton Morgan, who labored as an MTV VJ earlier than portraying music fanatic Peyton Sawyer on the primary six seasons of the teenager drama, revealed that the idea was “taken away” after she “raised [her] voice” over more and more poisonous work situations.
“Beginning a label was one thing I used to be positively into as a result of I had hosted a radio present for a school station and located all these bands and was going to venues looking for unsigned [bands] on a regular basis. It was artwork and life converging,” she continued. “I feel I needed Peyton to succeed so I needed an actual report label to succeed. I form of like that crossover of reality and fiction in any film or TV present. It’s the Blair Witch impact. The factor you’re watching feels extra enjoyable if it could be actual.”
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In November 2017, within the wake of the Me Too motion, the ladies of OTH got here ahead about Schwahn’s alleged harassment and abuse in an open letter through Selection. Shortly after the op-ed was printed, 25 forged and crew members of Schwann’sshow The Royals shared related claims and he was subsequently fired from the E! drama. Schwahn has nonetheless not publicly addressed the allegations.
4 years after their open letter made headlines, Burton Morgan began her OTH rewatch podcast with Bush, 41, and Lenz, 42. Whereas discussing the season 4 finale with Danneel Ackles in April, the foursome recalled when the alleged rigidity with Schwahn — whose title is censored on the podcast — got here to a boiling level.
In response to the actresses, Schwahn allegedly was rubbing actresses’ shoulders and placing his arms round them between takes, making the ladies really feel uncomfortable. Burton Morgan informed him to cease touching them and he later screamed at her along with her brother, boyfriend and boyfriend’s father within the subsequent room, she alleged, claiming nobody got here in to defend her till an govt producer ultimately confirmed as much as break the strain.
All through her time on “Drama Queens,” which launched in June 2021, Burton Morgan has been candid about how troublesome revisiting among the darker tales from the set of OTH may be, however she is aware of there is a vital cause for doing so.
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“There was an actress who was on our present who I not too long ago touched base with, and she or he was quieter throughout all of the Me Too stuff,” Burton shared on a “Drama Queens” episode earlier this 12 months. ‘I’m all the time scared that he’s ghostwriting.’ As a result of he was by no means held accountable. As a result of the manager producers of our present by no means publicly mentioned, ‘We gained’t do enterprise with him anymore. We’re so sorry to you women.’ As a result of there was by no means any form of closure. Somebody is giving him ghostwriting work someplace, and there’s this worry that we’re going to stroll onto a set at some point and be confronted with that.”
Burton Morgan continued: “It’s the boogeyman within the closet. To speak about it time and again, I’m making a dedication to proceed speaking about it in order that different showrunners don’t function that manner and so he’s bought no protected passage, like a ship.”
