Sophia Bush claims that she used to be promised that her personality, Brooke, wouldn’t date her on-again, off-again boyfriend Austin Nichols’ personality, Julian, when he joined the solid of One Tree Hill for season 6 – just for the characters to stroll down the aisle two years later.
“They said he would be there for a time, maybe break [Peyton and Lucas] up,” Bush, 41, informed cohost Hilarie Burton Morgan all the way through the Monday, January 29, episode in their “Drama Queens” podcast. “There was a lot of apology from the boss [Mark Schwahn] that was like, ‘I had no idea this overlapped with your real life how weird.’ And I was like, ‘Dude, I’ve dated like three people in 10 years. What do you mean you had no idea? You’re my nightmare.’ And he was like, ‘Promise you’ll barely ever have scenes together but it will certainly never be romantic.’”
Nichols, 43, joined the solid of OTH in season 6 as Julian Baker, an agent from Los Angeles who desires to make a film out of Lucas’ (Chad Michael Murray) novel. Alternatively, as soon as he will get to the city it’s published that he and Peyton (Burton Morgan) had been as soon as an merchandise. In spite of Schwahn’s alleged guarantees, Julian moves up a romance with Bush’s Brooke ahead of the tip of season 6, with the pair occurring to tie the knot in season 7 or even welcoming twins ahead of the collection finale in 2012.
Whilst discussing Julian’s first look in season 6 episode 8, Bush claimed that the preliminary goal used to be to make the nature a “bad boy movie producer” and “super cool” man till Schwahn, 57, allegedly determined it will threaten his standing on set.
“When they shifted it and did what they were going to do anyway and Julian of course becomes the person that Brooke marries, the hilarity of it was there were other dynamics at play and our creepy boss didn’t want all of Julian Baker’s cool, hot movie star character friends coming into town,” she persisted. “He did not want any more attractive young male cast members on our set to pull attention away from him.”
Bush claimed that Schwahn in the end determined to “emotionally castrate” Julian as soon as he started courting Brooke. Such a lot so, that the nature changed into somebody who “didn’t know how to high five” and needed to ask Nathan (James Lafferty) and Haley’s (Bethany Pleasure Lenz) 6year-old son, Jamie (Jackson Brundage), to be the most efficient guy at his marriage ceremony as a result of “he had no friends.”
“We were all like, ‘What is happening?’” Bush quipped whilst recalling the tale line, to which Burton Morgan responded, “Wild.”
Bush and Nichols dated off and on for 6 years ahead of calling it quits for excellent in February 2012, simply two months ahead of the OTH collection finale aired. Bush published all the way through an October 2023 episode of “Drama Queens’ that Nichols used to be her first date after her public divorce from her different costar Murray, 42, in 2006.
“Back in the early days of our show [OTH], all of us were partnered and then I very publicly was not,” Bush defined. “The first date I went on was with a very sweet boy named Austin Nichols when I was 23. We dated on and off for years.”
Nichols joined the display after Bush informed him courting long-distance used to be “too hard” to take care of.
“Bold, gorgeous, romantic gesture,” Bush gushed. “We laugh about it all the time. We’re still good friends.”
Nichols additionally shaped a bond with Burton Morgan, who shared all the way through Monday’s podcast episode that the actor in point of fact took the time to hook up with her and the folk she cared about as soon as he moved to the OTH’s filming location of Wilmington, North Carolina.
“I really have enjoyed knowing Austin all these years at this point. He’s a wonderful actor. He’s really fun,” she shared. “We did a lot hang out wise after work, and he made a real point of making friends out of my friends in town. And I appreciated that. He valued them. I really respected that about him.”