Ravens ceaselessly! One Tree Hill could have led to 2012, however the casts’ friendships have stood the take a look at of time.
“We’ve recognized one another for nearly 20 years now. Our friendships have modified immeasurably,” Sophia Bush, who performed Brooke Davis on the teenager drama, advised Us Weekly completely in December 2020. “We’ve been by means of so many levels of life collectively. However I believe one thing that we actually cherish — Hilarie and I had been speaking about this not too way back — is simply having, apparently sufficient, as we’ve all gotten older, having our friendships deepen much more.”
Bush, Hilarie Burton and Bethany Pleasure Lenz — who performed Peyton Sawyer and Haley James Scott, respectively — respect the bond they fashioned whereas engaged on One Tree Hill, particularly contemplating the poisonous work surroundings that present runner Mark Schwahn fostered on the set.
“[We’re] really pals … not fair-weather pals,” Burton stated to Refinery29 in January 2017 about how the ladies’s expertise on the present helped them keep shut. “I believe, beneath, there was an understanding between the 2 of us, like, we’re on this to win it.”
She continued: “I believe now, as grown-up ladies, we are able to look again, the identical means Brooke and Peyton might, and be like, ‘Man, we survived some stuff collectively, huh?’ And that’s an excellent feeling. I believe if you’re within the trenches with somebody, whether or not you agree with one another on the time or not, when you’re previous it, there’s a bond there you may’t deny.”
The trio even reconnected to begin a One Tree Hill rewatch podcast, “Drama Queens,” in June 2021. “These ladies are my household and we spend a lot time collectively, whether or not it’s on FaceTime or whether or not we’re recording episodes of ‘Drama Queens,’” Bush advised Insider in March 2022. “We’ve solid such a friendship and been in a position to, as a unit, reclaim a lot of what was good and joyful about our first job collectively whereas taking out the respective trash.”
The Chicago P.D. alum continued: “We’re simply extra in love with one another than we’ve ever been.”
Lenz echoed these sentiments that very same month, telling Selection that the podcast has been therapeutic for them. “Our time on One Tree Hill was so tempestuous; there have been so many nice occasions and so many onerous occasions and we had been scared to return and revisit it,” the singer defined. “That’s why doing the podcast has opened up all these doorways inside ourselves, to discover this new means of working collectively that’s been so wholesome and therapeutic.”
Hold scrolling to relive a number of the trio’s sweetest BFF moments by means of the years:
