Drama Queens - One Tree Thrill (Part 7)

Episode Date: June 30, 2022

Why was there never a Christmas episode on OTH??  Ever wonder how those music scenes at Tric worked?? Did the band actually play or is it silent and they mouth the words? One Tree Thrill… here we GO!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. 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. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

First of all, you don't know me. We're all about that high school, drama girl, drama girl, all about them high school queens. We'll take you for a ride in our comic girl. Drama girl. Cheering for the right team. Drama queens, drama queens, smart girl, rough girl, fashion but you'll tough girl. You could sit with us, girl. Drama queen, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens.

Hey, drama queens and kings and princes and princesses and duchesses and dukes and all of you out there who are the royals of drama, just like we are, darling. We have a Q&A here for you. It's going to be pretty fun. It's just me and Hillary today. Hi, Hillary. Oh, babe. I love it when we're together. I do, too.

This is fun. Let's get gossipy. Where are you right now? I'm going on at the farm. George had her little preschool moving up ceremony today. We had a diner day in the morning. Dad picked her up from school. And now we're just like racing to get home and get stuff done here at the farm.

How's your house? It's good. It's coming along. I'm putting together a new house. So, yeah, got some tile to pick out. Got some grout to pick out and trims and chandeliers and curtains and all those things. If you need a handy lady, I would love a vacay. Yeah, I might need a vacation away just to do some manual labor.

That sounds like a treat. I would love that. That would be so fun. Well, okay, listen, we have some questions, some listener questions. We love, you guys, we love it when you send in your questions. It really helps us know what you're interested in us talking about as we continue the show. And also just lets us know that you're still there and you're engaged. And your support means so much to us.

So we're excited when you send us your questions. So here's our first one. This is from Megan. And she says, would you like for there to have been at least one Christmas episode on the show? Did we never did a Christmas episode? Isn't that true? I guess not. We had multiple Halloween episodes and even a Thanksgiving episode, which I directed, but not Christmas.

I'm curious to hear what you think. Interesting. You did the Thanksgiving one? Yeah. Well, we never even did like Hanukkah or anything. Maybe that's why we've done so many Christmas movies as a unit. Do you know what I mean? Like I think you're right

Once I started doing those And I was like All it takes is working with someone you don't like once And then you're just like You know what? I'm gonna be a bully and cast this myself And just cast all my friends You know

And we started doing Like Antoine was always my first phone call I'd be like dude Dude dude what are you doing So good Yeah we've got so many Because you've done them You did

Was the movie you did With Chantelle's husband Victor Was that a Christmas movie? That's right Yep Victor and I, oh no, wait, was it a Christmas? Yes, it was. Five Star Christmas. It was a Christmas movie. It was fun, actually. We had a lot of fun. And I've done, let's see, one, two, I think I've done three Christmas movies now. I'm with Andrew Walker. One a long time ago. Uh, at three or four, I don't know.

They're fun. It's always fun. But, you know, we've got our, I would love to have had a Christmas episode on One Tree Hill. Sure, that would have been really fun. Did you just like a holiday episode? Well, considering we're all related. I didn't even think about that joy. Like, I didn't think about the fact that Peyton and Haley are sisters-in-law by the time I left. And then our kids are all each other's cousins. And I think the chaos of a Christmas morning with the Scott family would be... That would have been fun.

Yeah, wild. Let's get into it. Oh, well. I don't know. Did you guys go in, like, a snowy trip or something? Yeah, we all went to Utah and did... I had an owl. on my shoulder.

Did you really? Terrifying. Hillary, it was so scary. I've never, I mean, I'm not scared of animals. No, you're not scared of anything. I'm very, but the owl was so intimidating because, you know, they don't blink. So it just is staring into your soul and those talons and the beak and it's resting on my arm. And, you know, one false move, like it could just decide it doesn't like me and then immediately

peck my eyes out. Yeah. And I would have no self-defense whatsoever. So I like that it's the not blinking that makes you unsettled. Like if a, like, dinosaur or a wolf, as long as it blinks, you're fine. Let me tell you, if something does not blink, if a human, it's like Elizabeth Holmes. Have you ever watched those interviews with her where she just stares? And she talks and her, like, her deep voice and just stares at you.

The no-blink. I don't know how we got from Christmas to the no-blink. But I appreciate a transition. So I love the starter question. I love where we ended. Yeah. Genius. All right.

What's the next question? Look at Amy wants to know, when did you all realize that you weren't just work friends, but more of this sister friendship? Did it happen at the same time for the three of you? Or did it happen first for two of you and then the third came along a little bit later? Well, you want to give her the whole freaking journey? Oh, my gosh. I mean, it's epic. I think we realized pretty much right away that there was a real kindred spirit connection. We're both super creative. We both have like really pretty handwriting and like to

write notes and, you know, decopage things. And we loved vintage shopping together and talking about Broadway. And what did you say? I said, we're always trying to out artsy farts to each other like, hey, sweet collage. I see your collage and I raise you a flower arrangement. And also, but also, though, I don't want people at home, I think especially a lot of young women feel this pressure with all their relationships, not just like romantic relationships, but also friendships as well. They think it's like this magic spell, you know, that you'll just know right away. And it's love at first sight. And there is a lot of hard work that goes into relationships. For the upkeep, the upkeep of a relationship, because there's always that spark at the beginning, but if you just expect it to be fair weather all the time, while you won't ever be much of a friend and you probably won't have many friends.

No, and we both, like, I think to become an actor, you have to come from kind of a weird background where as a child you hung out with too many adults and you don't necessarily know how to talk to your own peers. And so there's that feeling of like, I don't know how to talk to girls my age. And so I've had that too Because she didn't come from a real high school experience And she's talked about that a lot on the show So learning how to be a good girlfriend I think we were lucky to be surrounded By older women on our show

That were like, no, you guys are going to need each other Not just today, but forever Yeah, like try and see the big picture Whenever there was a problem Whenever somebody inadvertently hurt another person's feelings To be able to have women around that reminded us, this two shall pass, and there's a bigger, we have to have grace for each other. We have to make space for each other. And, you know, you can't expect everything to be perfect all

the time, but you have to look at the bigger picture of the fact that you're going to be in each other's lives for many, many years. And you'll, like you said, yeah, you'll want to have each other there. I'm trying to think of like, I remember coming to your house after a boy dumped me and us, like, sitting out on your patio and, like, drinking tea and smoking, like, little, like, funny cigarettes, like, the super skinny kind. And I was just, like, rainbow Nat Sherman's with the gold filter. Yeah, the Fantasias. Yeah, the Fantasias. And I was just like, this chick and I are going to be friends forever.

Because you were angrier that I got dumped than I was. I was just like, I mean, I'm okay. And you're like, no, unacceptable. Unacceptable. Yeah, that was a magical afternoon. I was totally into it. I love you. I love you too.

Yeah, but so yeah, the magic was pretty much right away, but it is so important to put time in, show up when your friends need you to show up. You just got to go through and go through ebbs and flows. I mean, we've all been in and out of each other's lives for various reasons, and I'm so glad we're all back in each other's lives right now. But yeah, you're right. You got to put the work in. You got to do it.

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 hundreds of years. You carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence. That's Sierra Teller Ornelis, 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. Caitlin wants to know when we have bands perform on the show at Trick, do they actually play or is it silent and they mouth the words? Well, it'd be weird if it were silent and they were mouthing the words. Like, that's uncomfortable for everyone. Can you imagine just like a big silent warehouse? Well, but didn't they have to do that? they were in the background, but like you and maybe you and mouth had a scene where they had to have dialogue. You're right. I bet they did. I bet they had to just mouth it. They probably had like

an earpiece or something with the song playing so they could sing along. Were we that fancy? I don't think we were that. I don't know. We probably weren't. No, no, but okay, explain to them like why we have to have them mouth the words. Because it's not that they're not good musicians, but there's technical stuff. Oh, no. The technical stuff, they have to be completely silent because the whole room must be completely silent when actors are speaking, so the sound department can get the audio of the dialogue. So if you're doing a scene where everybody's dancing and there's a lot of crowd movement and stuff and trick, and you're looking toward the stage, maybe like over Hillary's shoulder to Lee's face, and the musician is on stage behind him, he's got to be

pretending to sing, but he can't actually sing because we need to hear Mouth's dialogue. So yeah, Yeah, you're exactly right. They sometimes mouth the words, and it's silent and very strange. Well, and for editing purposes, too, like, they have to sing along to the track, because if they're just doing, like, acoustic willy-nilly live stuff, being able to match it up from all the different angles, it'll never work. So it's always going to sound like it does on the radio on One Tree Hill. Did anyone perform afterwards, though?

Like, because we hung out with a couple people after the fact and would, like, see them perform. Sometimes they were just perform in town or just at trick still, like, they'd just, like, roll, roll out some more songs for fun. I don't know, actually. I'm trying to think if I saw anybody perform. Wow, they missed the boat. We would have been telling a great story right now. Well, thanks for the question, Caitlin. Yay.

Okay, Christina is up next. She wants to know what technique do you use to learn all your lines and how long does it take you to learn them? Do you have any tips for learning lines fast? What do you do, Hillary? Honestly, that training that I got at TRL was the best training ever because they would show you a cue card in a commercial break that lasted a minute and 40 seconds.

And either you knew it or you didn't. And if you didn't, you looked so dumb. So, it's sink or swim on live TV. Do they still hold up the cue card beside the camera? They do, but like, that's what you use if you're not good. So it's like S&L. Nowadays, it feels like it's totally acceptable when I watch Saturday Night Live. They're staring off at the card and looking off at it all the time.

And it drives me crazy because that was not acceptable back in like the Dan Aykroy, Jane Curtin, you know, when those guys were doing it they were they knew what they were doing yeah it annoys me i'm like come on step it up you have a photographic memory though don't you don't you i feel like you just look at it and you know stuff yeah i i say it out loud a couple of times and i and i know it unless the writing is bad um if the writing's really bad it's a lot harder for me to learn because it's just listening all you have to do is like listen to what the other person has to say And you should, whatever, however you're responding should generally line up with what's on the page. Yeah.

Give or take a couple of words, you know? I can't wait for us to do another job together when you can't remember your lines. I'm going to be like, it's not her. It's bad writing. That's right. Who did this? You know? Who did this to her?

Exactly. Also, doctor shows and lawyer shows are hard because you have to learn jargon. Yeah. Or sci-fi shows. I did one sci-fi show, Joy, and I was just like, y'all, not my jam. I know. 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 hundred years, you carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence. That's Sierra Teller 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.

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the roles of Haley, Brooke, and Peyton in order to move forward and playing other roles on TV? Yeah, for sure, of course. Anytime you watch a character, someone played the same character for a long time and not do a lot of other things at the same time, that's hard to break out. And we were on that show coming up in a time when there still wasn't a ton of crossover between TV and film. So by the time all that crossover stuff was happening, we had already been on the air for at least six years. And it was just a little harder to make that transition.

And I definitely felt that when the show was over. And I remember coming back to L.A. and going, okay, like, I just got off a hit show. Let's get to work. And it was crickets. It was like I was really lucky to get some guest spots and a couple of other things. You did Dexter. That was so cool. I did land Dexter.

That was killer. Pardon the pun. Mom jokes. I did get to do a few really cool things, which was exciting. but it wasn't nearly as much as I expected that I would get. And I learned some pretty valuable lessons in those following four years, really. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. I disappeared for a whole year after. Like, I went, met someone, had a baby. No one knew I had a baby, gave birth, was months out before anybody figured out that I'd done all that. So I went into lockdown hiding. Did you find that it was, I mean, you were, you were only. on the show for four years. So it was a little harder to kind of peg you as one particular person because people really knew you as Peyton only for that period of time rather than like the full

10 years is a really long time for everybody. Dude, I did six and was like, see you guys later. I was also able to do other stuff while I was doing one tree hill. Like, yeah, I made friends with the local casting directors and would do literally any movie that came through town. I was just like, yes, Little Britain, sign me up. Secret Life of Bees, sign me up. That movie, like Christian movie, The List, sign me up. Like, I'll literally do anything that's here. So smart that you did that. And there were little teeny, teeny, tiny roles, but those relationships that you make when you, you know, I would have to swallow my ego a little bit to do these, like, you know, secret life of bees, I didn't even have any lines in that, you know. But the people I met were great.

Yeah. When I finally did go back to work, it was white collar, which, thank God, was such a different part. I don't know why. Very different. It was super different. And, you know, I've said it so many times. Tiffany Theson helped me not get a chip on my shoulder about the teen drama stuff. She's like, don't do it.

Don't be a bitch, Hillary. That show made you. It paid your mortgage. It put your brothers through school. Don't be a dick. And I was like, okay, yes, you're right. 100%. that's awesome

I think people still now expect me to be really grumpy and I don't know if it's the Peyton or the Hillary like I don't know I don't know which thing put that into their mindset you're just the right amount of grumpy so you've got to be kind of grumpy Hannah wants to know I love

there's so many technical questions when a character is drinking from a cup Why is the cup always so obviously empty? You can't just put water in it? Hannah! We do put water in it. Yeah, I put water in it. Do you feel like when you're a young actor,

you're too sensitive or you're too insecure to like ask and be like, hey, can you put a little water in here? Because I feel like as an older person, I'm always like, what the shit is this? This empty cup. It's usually only with the coffee cups that have the lid on them. Because if it's a mug or something else, I mean, at this point, also, prop departments always just ask me, what do you want in your cup? Do you want real coffee?

Do you want tea? Do you want water? What do you want? So I don't know. Is that still happening out there in the world? Empty cups? If someone wants to make a montage. We just did the moving in episode of like Brooke and Hey,

moving into the apartment. And I came in with a box that was massive, but so obviously empty, either I'm Thor or that was bad. Bad props. All right, Hannah, make a montage of all the empty cups on One Tree Hill. We'll laugh about it. Let's do it. Okay, last one here. We have Danielle. She says, season three, first episode opens right where season two finale ends. Did you guys film both episodes around the same time or did you finish filming season two go on hiatus and then recreate the same scene for season three oh i don't remember what she's talking about do you i did we just watch do because i had to wear a wig um i caught all my hair off and everybody did weird with their hair uh we came back and started like a pickup yeah it was the

The fire at Dan Scott. So, like, the fire they only did once. The big, huge, expensive stuff, they did once. And then they really wanted to milk it, you know, and make it last more than one episode. But, yeah. No, my stuff was totally spread apart. I mean, and you were coming back from tour, right? I think so.

But, yeah, I don't think there was anything a direct match. Baby, we lived for the hiatus. We lived for hiatus. I know. Well, 22 episodes is a lot. Yeah, nobody does that anymore. I mean, it was, it really did feel like high school because we would start shooting at the end of August and we would shoot through like May, which is the real school year. And then we'd take our summers off and everyone would go do cool stuff.

And then when we'd come back together, it was always a party. Oh, yeah. These are good questions. Lots of technical stuff. Maybe we should teach one of those master classes that they... What do you kids want to know? How to hit a mark? All right, you guys, thank you so much for these questions.

Keep them coming. Bye, everybody. Hey, thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review. You can also follow us on Instagram at Drama Queen's O-T-H. Or email us at Dramaquins at iHeartRadio.com. See you next time. We're all about that high school, drama girl, drama girl, all about them high school queens.

We'll take you for a ride and our comic girl, cheering for the right team. Drama queens, drama queens, smart girl, rough girl, fashion but you'll 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.