In the early 2000s, the ladies of a hill of trees they were icons, especially to the women and girls who grew up loving the show. In 2006, during season 4 of the series, three actresses from the series, Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton and Danneel Ackles appeared on the cover of Maxim. Now, Bush and Burton, along with their co-star Bethany Joy Lenz, have spoken out about misogyny and the abuse of power on the set of the photo shoot.
Burton kicked off the conversation about the magazine photoshoot at a hill of trees review the podcast theater queens said:
Guess who wore pants in Maxim? This guy ! Guys, I’ve been wearing these white jeans for so long. I showed up that day and I was a beautiful bitch. What a brat, what a child. I was like, ‘I wear pants.’ I feel uncomfortable. Put me in your pants. So I kept these white jeans as a token of [that decision].
Bush also explained how they carefully chose their outfits that day and then discussed how their bodies were altered after the photo shoot, she said:
We did our best. We had some cute vintage high-waisted one-piece bikinis, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to wear this corset that totally covers my belly, and these shorts, and it’s going to look like a 1950s pin-up girl photo shoot.” How about the photoshop they did for this set? Half of my ass is gone. One of my legs is literally half his height. … It’s like someone started growing one of my boobs, then he went to lunch and forgot they weren’t done. I have normal size breasts and huge breasts. It’s the worst.
Bush and Burton explained that they had to attend the photo shoot. The actress behind Brooke explained that she was given an ultimatum when she said she didn’t want to do it, she explained:
They told us we had to. Because [my character] Brooke had been so sexualized on the show and the whole idea of this “hometown bliss” Rachel story, I was like, “If girls want to do that, great.” Not me. I went into battle trying to get Brooke less involved in what you tried to force me to do. I do not want to do it. They literally told me, “If you’re not shooting this cover with your co-stars, we guarantee they’ll never let you out to a press day, a movie, an event, any of your charities, we keep you here for always.
In addition to being forced to film, Burton also explained that the “boss” who visited Maxim’s set gave her an iPod with music that she thought was “applied” to her. He said he was given to put Bush “in her place” and make Danneel Ackles “jealous”. Bush called the situation “appalling and uncomfortable”.
Burton, who eventually left the a hill of trees problem early and she praised her co-star for convincing her do it, it was open about on-set abuse of the CW show, and how it still affects it. She explained that she would be proud if her daughter scolded someone because she wished she “had the ability to do that.”
The podcast’s other host, Bethany Joy Lenz, explained that she felt “substituted” because a different actress appeared on the cover with Burton and Bush taking her place. She explained that Maxim told her he didn’t ask because she “was too fat” and she “wasn’t the ‘hot girl’.” that the magazine did not ask Lenz to do the reshoots. It was because they were told she refused to do the photo shoot.
This isn’t the first uncomfortable story to come out of actresses, in their podcast they have talked about many uncomfortable and terrifying situations they have been involved in. Finally, all these people inside a hill of trees became known, and the showrunner of him and later the real ones Mark Schwahn was fired by the real ones on allegations of sexual harassment .
These three actresses started the theater queens podcasts in 2021 and Bush explained that they were nervous they talk about their experiences on set because they were “afraid of breaking hearts”. However, they now enjoy talking about the show, and Lenz said seeing it again was “healing.”
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Source: Cinemablend
