Teen dramas are recognized for having older actors play teenagers, however Kelsey Asbille‘s One Tree Hill arc marked the uncommon event the place a teen was enjoying an older character.
The Yellowstone actress joined the Monday, March 4, episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast to speak about her first skilled job on the WB/CW drama as Gigi Silveri, the function she performed from 2005 to 2009.
“I was 13, and y’all were like these beautiful [women],” Asbille, now 32, recalled to cohosts Hilarie Burton Morgan and Bethany Joy Lenz. “I stuffed my bra for the audition. Oh my god, I had to! I remember, I thought I was auditioning for a cheerleader, so I borrowed my friend’s cheerleading outfit, and they were like, ‘No, no, no, this is the school nerd.’”
Burton Morgan, 41, mentioned she was “horrified” as she has a 14-year-old son and Lenz, 42, whose daughter simply turned 13, agreed.
It’s laborious to look again at teen dramas with out remembering One Tree Hill, and a long time later followers are nonetheless speaking about its explosive forged. The collection, created by Mark Schwahn, aired for 9 seasons from 2003 to 2012. It premiered on The WB then moved over to The CW in 2006 when The WB was […]
Gigi was launched as a lovestruck scholar crushing on Marvin “Mouth” McFadden (Lee Norris).
“I didn’t know at all what I was doing, I was just so happy to be there. I couldn’t believe my luck. I do remember getting the note to stop smiling,” Asbille mentioned with fun.
The actress, who turned 14 shortly after getting the job, was grateful to be paired up with Norris, who grew up as a toddler actor on Boy Meets World. However, she wasn’t thrilled to have her first kiss on digicam with James Lafferty in a scene the place she recreated Nathan’s romance with Haley for a skit.
“This is terrible,” she mentioned. “So my first kiss was on One Tree Hill, [it] was with James [Lafferty].”
She added, “I remember I was so incredibly nervous, like, kissing my hand, not eating a shrimp skewer that day … I remember asking Sophia [Bush], ‘Do you kiss during rehearsal?’”
“The worst part is that in that scene, I jump him and kiss him and I had braces,” she mentioned. “So when I tell you that I jumped this poor man and punched his face with my face. You can hear the smack.”
She continued, “The worst kiss of my life, of his life, I should issue an apology. I’m so, so sorry.”
Asbille was additionally a fan of Lafferty earlier than she was forged and watched One Tree Hill previous to getting the gig. “I was completely a Nathan girl,” she mentioned. “I had such a crush on James too, he was so nice. It was cruel, the whole kiss thing.”
She quipped, “We don’t wanna get what we wish for.”
In season 6, Asbille was 17, however One Tree Hill had performed a 4 12 months time-jump, getting old most characters nearer to the actors’ actual ages. However, this put Asbille even additional away from her character in age. She was nonetheless in highschool whereas enjoying a 20-something attempting to seduce her ex, who was in a dedicated relationship.
Ravens perpetually! One Tree Hill might have led to 2012, however the casts’ friendships have stood the take a look at of time. “We’ve known each other for almost two decades now. Our friendships have changed immeasurably,” Sophia Bush, who performed Brooke Davis on the teenager drama, instructed Us Weekly completely in December 2020. “We’ve been via so […]
“I also remember y’all being so wonderful, and protective as well, especially when we were shifting gears [in later seasons, and] she was getting more sexy,” Asbille recalled to Burton Morgan and Lenz. “[I was] having to take my shirt off, and I remember being really nervous about all of that and not knowing what I was supposed to do. I remember Sophia specifically being really protective, of like, ‘Alright, so we’re wearing a tube top,’ which I really appreciate because it’s scary navigating all of this and you don’t know that you can say no.”
While her former costars have been appalled wanting again at the story traces she was a part of as a toddler, Asbille assured them that she wasn’t terribly uncomfortable thanks largely to the ladies on set.
“Listen, I had so much support through y’all and with the crew because I grew up with the crew from 13 to 17, so I always felt really protected,” she mentioned.
One Tree Hill launched Asbille’s profession, and he or she went on to star in Teen Wolf, Fargo and Yellowstone.
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