Drama Queens - One Tree Thrill (Part 15)

Episode Date: April 28, 2023

From Old Hollywood to Tree Hill, there are no questions off limits. Find out what odd place they’d bump into each other while filming.   Plus, ever wonder how they decorated their trailers? Find out and see if you were right! And Joy shares a secret wish she has looking back at the final years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're here. Love it. We've got good questions this week, ladies. Oh, this is a fun one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Get into it, Troy. Who's your favorite actor from old Hollywood? And why? And you have to do it in your continental accent.

Oh, jeez. We all have watched a lot of old cinema. I mean, especially during the One Tree Hill years, I feel like getting a box set of old movies from, what was it, Best Buy? Like, we'd run into each other at the Best Buy, buying DVD box sets. Remember that pink?

It was like a satin pink, Doris Day Rock Hudson set. Girl Pillow Talk. Yes, please. Pillow talk. Mm-hmm. I had a Vivian Lee box set that was all movies I'd never heard of before

like Waterloo Bridge was new to me and you know obviously I knew her from Gone with the Wind but I was like there's something more to this woman than just this one movie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof you know she's not Cat on a Hot Tin Roof that's Liz Taylor, no streetcar name Desire Streak oh yeah

she was one of Tennessee Williams girls It was like Liz Taylor and Vivian Lee were my two favorite because the Tennessee Williams box set is bananas. If you want to watch a collection of old movies that stand up, that's the one. Hang on. Did Vivian Lee, who isn't gone with the wind? This Vivian Lee. And she was also Blanche? Yes.

In a blonde wig. Whoa. I missed it. I totally missed that. My whole life missed it. Because she's so good. Because you don't. We're two and two together.

Wow. I mean, she had this, like, crazy tumultuous marriage to Lawrence Olivier, and then they broke up. But there was always still, like, she always still had his picture next to her bed, and he was still kind of in love with her, but she became an alcoholic, and she died very young. And it was all very tragic, very talented woman. Yeah. I'm a Rita Hayworth girl. I just love her. Yeah.

Gilda? Yes. Yeah, I always loved Rita Hayworth. I just watched Gilda on a plane, Joy. That's so weird. You did? Yeah. Really? So good.

And Jimmy Stewart, man, just like, can you beat Jimmy Stewart? God. Who is our modern day Jimmy Stewart? I think Tyler could be if he had been given a real shot at acting. Like, if somebody had really just making him a movie star. Making him a movie star. Making him a movie star. I mean, Tom Hanks.

has that incredible can do anything like warm person you just feel safe with energy for me yeah good call he reminds me of a jimmy stewart i i was always just so in love with katherine heppard you love a woman in pants suits i love a woman in a pantsuit yeah i just thought she was so cool and balzy and i don't know she she did all these things that so many women in old black on white movies, I didn't, I didn't get to see do. Yeah. And so I found her really inspiring. And I think what got me into old movies was all the, you know, when we were babies

doing all our first auditions, all these people would be like, you sound like Lauren Bacall, kid. And I was like, who is that? Yeah. I don't know who that is. So I started watching old movies to, to hear this, you know, cool lady with a raspy voice. Yes. And I was like, oh, I could, I like her.

That feels nice. Oh. That's right. And Lucy had that raspy voice, too. Yeah. Oh, that's true. God, so funny. Old movies.

Yeah. Funny old dames. Oh, yes. All right, so we have to have a movie now. But that's also why we loved doing that episode. Chad wrote that was so, like, totally random. What was it, 1930s, 1940s episode? It allowed us to, like, play pretend and be these women for a hot minute.

And James could be his best Gregory Peck, who his dad looks exactly like, by the way. Remember James' dad? He looks just like Gregory Peck and so does. He truly does. I know. It's wild. Wow. Ernesto asks, the time jump between seasons four and five left a lot of college years

unaccounted for. If that time period could be shown in full, who is a new character from your own story that you would like to be introduced? Does that mean who is someone that we went to college with, who we would have wanted to see in the college years on the show? No, I think he just means, like, we all were in three different places. Like, Haley absolutely went to college, right? We weren't there.

Brooke absolutely went to New York. We weren't there. Payton's in L.A. So, for our characters, who is the person that we should have dragged back to Tree Hill? Yeah. Well, I can answer that because I pitched it when we were going to bring in somebody to work on close over bros with Brooke. I pitched our local hometown friend Alex. Oh, BGA!

Alex and I loved fashion. Yeah. The chicest, most beautiful, nearly seven foot tall, like stunningly gorgeous black gay man who had the best fashion sense in the world. And I, you know, from growing up in the world of seeing fashion people, not being like in their world because, you know, my dad was a photographer. Yeah, he did. We were, we were help.

We want like the ones. but I loved that fashion was such a place for fashion was such a place of expression for so many people, for women and for queer people. And it was such a safe haven, you know, for artists and folks who weren't necessarily elevated to positions of power in other industries. And I really wanted to have Brooke have a partner that reminded me of so many of the amazing men I knew in fashion. but shocker the bosses on our show wanted Brooks partner to bang Brooks mom so they hired a hot straight white Australian guy instead and I was like I feel that we're really missing the mark here yeah um but I you know I wasn't in charge I pitched it and I lost you did your best we had a hot white straight Australian guy on the show yeah who Mitch Mitch who had an affair with Daphne I mean not in real life oh my God Alex Oh, right. He had sort of like long hair. This is after I left. Wasn't his name Alex? I don't know. Yeah, Hillary, you weren't there, but. I'm learning things in this. Curly blonde hair. Yeah. Yeah. Brooke like caught her mom having sex. It was awkward because that was all. Man. I am not remembering this. Yeah. But I really, I really, I really wanted her to have like a cool, you know, queer male fashion partner. That would have made sense. Totally. I know. It would have been so awesome. Who would you have brought back from L.A.? Listen, I just found a picture of Alex at the very last rap party I went to,

like picking me up and swinging me around on the dance floor. Like the best person to dance with. He was so wonderful. Do you remember the Halloween where he went as that god from 300? And he was painted gold head to toe? Oh, my God. He walked into the Halloween party. And I was just like, oh, things are happening.

to every person in this room, regardless of who they're standardly attracted to. Everyone in this room is like falling to their... Universally attractive person. Here's what's weird is that Peyton didn't bring around like any indie rock bands. Like no dive bar. She absolutely was not friends with musicians. She would like hang out in passing with certain people like Mia,

but really like she was much younger than us. When I was working at MTV and then when I was, I had a radio show the summer after our first season. Like, all I did was let people sleep on my couch and buy their beer. I mean, that band, the local band, He is Legend when we were in Wilmington, like, lived in my house. I bought all their beers for years. So I feel like there must have been indie bands that Peyton could have advocated for that we just never got to see. Which sucks.

That would have been fun. What was Haley friends with in college? Well, you stole mine. I was going to say, where's Haley's gay best friend? Like, why didn't we get that? That would have been so fun from college. But the other thing I was thinking of is why does Haley... I guess she was pregnant.

I mean, she just had a baby. And she doesn't have her mom's around, kind of. I mean, her parents were like, didn't they get a trailer and they took off? Yeah. And her siblings aren't really around. So did she hibernate? was she like just going to school and taking care of this baby and not did she have I guess she maybe two full-time jobs I know so I don't know that she would have been

super social but I feel like um I feel like Haley was always pretty good at kind of spotting the odd man out and making friends and so yeah it would have been nice to see maybe the maybe like the just the the recluse kind of friend that that maybe wouldn't be somebody that the first person you'd think of

as like a vivacious personality on a TV show but who would maybe just helped her raise the baby was like the kind of person that is like I don't know

true blue kind of nerdy focused on her studies and just showed up and helped her with midnight feeding sometimes and oh go you have an idea

you know what would have been so cool that I'm realizing as you say this because Haley was such a young mom in college. How funny if she met another college kid who was looking for a part-time job and was like, do you want to be my nanny?

Oh, great. And you had these two girls, but like, you know, one kid who's studying whatever she's studying and another kid who's the mom and they're friends, but they're, like, what an interesting dynamic that would be for you to essentially have your babysitter be like your exact peer. Yeah. You guys are doing like biochemistry together.

Yes. Or some creative, like, artist girl who was, Yeah, like super punky and just wanted to come help and hang out and was like, took, took this part-time job because Haley needed a little, a little like shake it loose in her life, I think. That would have been fun. I would have liked that. Yeah, you needed to have a peer, a roommate. You'd been too adult. Way too adult. Yeah. Those were the years. Well, what's our next question? Jesse says, is there any correlation between the song titles being the episode titles or do they just pick them because it sounded like a good idea? I mean. That's funny. Babe. I don't know. Yeah, we didn't talk to those people.

I certainly did. Who knows? Maybe. Were they titles from songs in the episode? I don't think so. I actually don't know. I don't think so. I think they were just titles of songs.

Maybe the songs were used, I don't know. They're like inspiration playlist. We didn't write the show. I don't know. I think they probably sat around in the writer's room. and everybody scrolled through their list on their computer or their iPod mix and figured out like, oh, this song kind of goes with the, I assume they made an attempt to match the theme. Well, because here's the thing. Remember, like, the music climate at that time in the early 2000s where everything was about like, don't sell out, man. And oh, you don't know that band? What kind of poser are you? You know, everything was so judgy in the music scene. So there was kind of this cool factor to like, oh, you don't even know about that song.

And so I think there was kind of a juvenile aspect of like, I'm putting together the ultimate mixtape that I know about. And if you were cool, you'd know it too. Which is why half the time I'm like, I don't know what this song is. I don't care. I'm not cool. Never have been. That's funny.

Yeah, that was, the music scene then was totally different than I think it is now. Now it's like, let's be fun. back that it was really toxic. But back then there were also gatekeepers. There was no Spotify Discover Weekly where the coolest song of the week was available to everyone. Like you had to know music to know what albums were coming out, you know, every week.

Yeah. Yeah, there really was kind of like an inside moment. MySpace was our gatekeeper. MySpace. You didn't have MySpace? No, you guys. I thought it was creepy. Girl, how you supposed to stalk your boyfriends from high school?

You don't have my space. I don't care about them. I do. It may look different, but native culture is very alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. It was a huge honor to become a television writer because it does feel oddly, like, very traditional. It feels like Bob Dylan going electric, that this is something we've been doing for a kind of. and it's weird, you carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence.

That's Sierra Taylor Ornellis, who with Rutherford Falls became the first native showrunner in television history. On the podcast, Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we explore her story, along with other Native stories, such as the creation of the first Native Comic-Con or the importance of reservation basketball. Every day, Native people are striving to keep traditions alive while navigating the modern world, influencing and bringing our culture into the mainstream. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Bree has a great question, Joy. Tell the listeners at home what it is. How did you each decorate your dressing room to make it feel more like you or like Brooke or like Peyton or Haley. That's a fun question. We haven't been asked that before. I'm trying to think if I did anything. So, I mean, Sophia and I both did a lot of decorating in our trailer.

Like, I remember coming with a car full. When we went to go visit Sophia in Toronto, we walked into her trailer and it was like going to Grandma's house because there's like, there's like blankets and pillows and crafts and plants. Yeah. Plants. Yeah. I really do have such, like, seasonal effect of depression that when I have to shoot somewhere in the winter, I order a lot of plants for my trailer.

I'm like, I need to have some green things. Trailers are also always, like, that weird fake, bad marble-looking, like, faded tie-dye wallpaper that's brown. Like, it's just shades of brown. It looks like a toddler threw up everywhere. And so I have to cover everything. I'm like, I've got to bring comfortable blankets in and I'll bring pills in and I'll bring plants in. And, you know, I always get some sort of like desk organizer thing.

And I really, I try to make it feel more like a room I would like to be in than a barf school. Yeah. Because we're in it so often. There's so much hurry up and wait, especially on those basketball days and on a show when you've got this many cast members, sometimes you get called in four or five hours before they need you and you're just sitting around in your trailer. You want it to feel like another living room. So you just, I mean, I like to switch it up. Oh, yeah, candles.

I like to change the furniture in my house a lot all the time. So I definitely every season would redecorate with a different like kind of style or theme. I keep a trailer kit now too that has like an electric kettle that, you know, I'll obviously wash when I get somewhere. I have all the things I know I need in like these two big plastic storage bins and I'll just ship them wherever I'm going to work. because I also don't want to I hate like getting stuff for a project and then you know

having to get rid of it it feels wasteful I feel like you need to write a life hacks book okay you know what I mean like you always have these all these crazy tips oh yeah like I've got the best travel humidifier now I figured it out yeah yeah I should be the person who leaves Amazon reviews but I don't have time for that

so maybe I'll write a book instead yeah or like I don't know refinery 29 or like Bertie get her on staff glamour somebody get her on the list somebody get her on the list. Okay, Hillary, trailer, go. I'm sitting here trying to rack my brain while you guys talk about it because I remember your trailers were really appealing. I think mine has always been just really Spartan. Like, I would bring in maybe a pillow. Good word. Because I would sleep during lunch, so I wouldn't have to talk to anybody. Like, I don't think I brought

anything in. And yeah, I'm just trying to rack my brain unless you guys remember something, but I I don't think I've ever decorated a trailer because I also had been on headset. You know, like my boyfriend would come into my trailer during lunch and I could hear everything. And I knew that, like, everyone went through everyone else's trailers and, like, would poop in each other's bathrooms and stuff. And I was just never going to bring anything in because I was like, I don't trust this situation. This is bad. It's bad. I don't want anybody rifling through my desk drawers.

I'm good. Yeah, I just bring my little pillow and maybe, like, My iPod. But I travel light. I'm a light traveler. I do that. The older I've gotten, the more I do that, the less I want to, like, lug around and dress things out. I'm like, I'll just find some shit here.

I'll just go into Sophia's half of the trailer. I'll still see. I'm like, what do you need? I have four. Yeah. I need some oxygen. Where's Sophia? I'm, like, strictly an over-preparer.

I just spent the weekend in Colorado. Grant and I did with some of our best friends. And we were going to this event that was outdoors. at night. And when I checked the weather two weeks ago, it was going to be 22 degrees. It wound up being in the 40s, so we were fine. But I packed my Arctic snowsuits for me and Kelly because I was like, I'm not, I will not. We shan't be cold. I won't be outside for five hours in 22 degree weather. Like, we're just not. We're not doing it. And then it wound up being warm and it was great. And she was like, you are the ultimate prepper. Like those disaster people

in the last of us, episode three, like that is you. And I was like, honestly, I'm such a compliment. I'm ready. You don't need a mom purse. You have a friend suitcase. That's the equivalent. I love it. Friends, we want to see all of your Pinterest board imaginary trailer decorations.

So go in there and dress up a trailer and send it to us. That would be fun to see. I want the goth one. I need someone to design me just like Elvira's trailer. And that's what I'll do next time I actually do an acting job. Just, just crystals and darkness. Send you a life-size cardboard cut out of all virus. Babe, I had one my whole life.

Of course you did. I was like in my bedroom growing up. I had Amy Grant. Yeah. And you have a virus. That makes perfect sense. It's all solved now. And I had like embarrassing National Geographic posters of endangered animals on my wall.

All this tracks, friends. Such a dork. All of it tracks. All right, you guys. Thank you. much for these questions. Send more. Thanks, fans. We got you. Hey, thanks for listening.

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all about them high school queens. We'll take you for a ride and our comic girl. Chearing for the right team. Drama queens. There's smart girl, rough girl, fashion but you're tough girl, you could sit with us, girl. Drama queen, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens. It may look different, but native culture is alive.

My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. Somewhere along the way, it turned into this full-fledged award-winning comic shop. That's Dr. Lee Francis IV, who opened the first native comic bookshop. Explore his story along with many other native stories on the show, Burn Sage Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.