#Hitting Affectionate

Favorite Otps/Pairings: Lucas Scott & Peyton Sawyer (One Tree Hill) "Your art matters. It's what got me here."

I did love the comet, driving off down the street down that famous street. -Bethany

The wide shot from the river was cool. -Hilarie 

It was really beautiful. -Sophia

And I, that was such, I mean it was like a whole day filming just that one sequence.  And you know, we did like the shots where the camera was on our side of the river, but then you had a whole separate crew on the other side of the river. So we had to clear out everything that we had used for the tight shots. So that we could get that really far shot. That was fun. That was like, yeah, I think I had more fun with it than Chad did. 'Cause Chad, Chad was hurt and I'd already made like a game plan. I was like, okay, well then I'm gonna go to Paris, I'm gonna write a book. -Hilarie  

But we really had fun in the house with like the baby. You know, like, we really...He's from a family with a lot of kids. I'm from a family with a lot of kids. We both knew that we were like, he and I would talk about having kids. Like we both really wanted to be parents. And, and I think that if we felt robbed of anything, it was getting to do that. Like I, that was what choked me up is not getting to see Sawyer Scott grow up the way we've gotten to see Jamie grow up. You know, I felt robbed of that. That pissed me off. 'Cause I like babies and I like toddlers and I thought that could have been real fun. But filming all that stuff was really nice. -Hilarie

The closure feels cool and, and yeah, I, I don't, I think I can walk away with the narrative of Lucas and Peyton and feel so good about it in a way that I wasn't allowed to for a long time. And that's my surprise in my 40's who knew that, you know, doing all of this would lead to being real arrogant about how, how fantastic we are. -Hilarie 

And Chad ran down and he was like, we have more scenes. And I was like, yeah. He and I had rented out the bar across the street from the hospital set and we were gonna have the whole crew. Like, we were just gonna buy drinks for the whole crew at our series wrap. I was like, yeah, we're here till the end, dude. And he was like, everyone's just leaving. Everyone's getting in their car and leaving and they don't understand. This is your last scene ever. And I was like, oh, okay. And so Chad, I don't know how You guys remember this. I can only remember it from my perspective. Chad disappeared and the next thing I know You guys were coming back in, but I'm strapped to this bed and everyone was saying goodbye to me, but it felt like a funeral. Like, I'm literally laying there like I'm in a coffin. -Hilarie 

It was such an uncomfortable day. And so for me, watching this back and watching it in reverse of how we shot it, watching the horrible shit first and then getting to end on the stuff that was actually really nice was very therapeutic. It was like, oh, that's how it was supposed to be. That's what it was supposed to look like. Yeah. It was Sometimes it's good to wait 15 years to watch. -Hilarie 

I loved watching that scene. 'cause Chad had my makeup all over his face. You know, I'm like wearing super pale makeup. And Chad was so emotionally invested in the scene, he didn't want touchups. But what that meant was that take after take, he just had like white makeup all over his lips and his face from kissing my head and, and I just want, yeah, I loved it. I loved it. -Hilarie 

And then, yeah, we finished our very last day of shooting was all the stuff where Peyton strapped to the bed. And so I'd already had the teary goodbye with Brooke. You know, where I'm, I'm showing you Peyton, or I'm showing you Sawyer. And we'd done the scene where everybody comes into the hospital room. That was what we shot earlier in the day. -Hilarie 

I vividly remember the very first thing we see when Chad carried me into the hospital kiss. Kisses Peyton's arm. It happens in a blink. And I had completely like forgotten about it until I watched it in the episode and just had the muscle memory of Chad doing that and being, I couldn't react because I'm like comatose. Right. But being so choked up that his immediate reaction was to kiss any body part of mine that he could reach. Because it might be the last time he gets to do that. Like that's still, oh, I'm still choked up. Like it was such a, it was a good instinct for him. And I don't know if people even clock it, but I did. 'Cause it's also a weird thing when someone kisses you like close to your armpit. It's not like a natural, not a natural spot. But I thought it was such a sincere gesture. I liked it. -Hilarie 

Yeah. When Chad shows up, he shows up and he showed up in this episode. His, his performance was really beautiful. -Bethany 

But I see how much fun Chad and I are having as we come into the house. Like there's just something that's so nice about knowing what's coming and being like yeah fuck it, yeah, let's, hey, you and me, we're gonna have a real great time. Because he, he was great. He was really, he was also in the same head space I was where it was like, okay, alright, let's just make it fun now. So I do wanna say that Chad was, we had fun getting married. It was it, it was a good time. And he had to pick me up a lot. A lot. It was a good sport about it. -Hilarie

Well, look, it was a good wedding. The reception. I like that they just had it at trick. That felt nice. -Hilarie 

And I loved Peyton and Lucas, like I, externally, I loved them as a unit. And so knowing that it was like curtains for these two, I just wanted him to know like, baby, it's been real. It's been so real. -Hilarie

You know, this was six years at this point where at six years of living inside this story. And yeah. It really, even though I know Hillary and Chad, I also know Lucas and Peyton and I was a part of their story. And to be in the storybook ending for their characters that we had walked with all this time. What a surreal, singular artistic, unique experience. It really was beautiful. -Bethany 

The speech that you give to Lucas at the wedding, I was bawling. -Bethany

Vows were so beautiful. -Sophia

It was so beautiful because it was so sincere. It was like all those words on the page are just words on a page. But you said it from that tone in your voice that comes from your diaphragm with a, where there's like a, a settledness and a certainty. It wasn't, it wasn't coming from up here where a lot of emotional stuff I think comes up from people's chests when they're acting because it's just, you just wanna say everything from right here and just get it all out. But you were, you were dropped in vocally. And it, it hit me in my, like it vibrated in my body from that place of real certainty. It was so beautiful. -Bethany

And it, it was so powerful and so sweet. Like the sweet innocence of Lucas and Haley having been friends their whole life and you know, the one minute minister.com and, and the, the terrible poison  lines and like, and then the tin, you know, the wish tin. Like it's, it was such a nice walk down memory lane through the childhood stuff in particular. And then it got present and so sweet. -Sophia 

And like to have heard about their history and the way that he loved her and the way that you guys fell into it in high school and then Hillary for you to, to deliver those vows in that way. I was just like, I was crying. I was like, this is so special. -Sophia 

I legit felt like, I remember standing there with Chad, looking at him thinking, well knowing in that moment after next episode, I'm never gonna see Lucas Scott again. I'm never gonna see this person that I, that you know Peyton loves. But like, it was the realization, I don't know, just in my head, like Peyton's definitely gone, whether she's dead or she's like just gone from the show. Whenever we're confronted with that feeling of I'm never gonna have this thing again. I'm never gonna have this person or this experience again, that's a, you know. That's an emotional thing. -Hilarie