Teen dramas are identified for having older actors play teenagers, however Kelsey Asbille‘s One Tree Hill arc marked the uncommon event the place a teen was taking part in 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 position she performed from 2005 to 2009.
“I used to be 13, and y’all had been like these lovely [women],” Asbille, now 32, recalled to cohosts Hilarie Burton Morgan and Bethany Pleasure Lenz. “I stuffed my bra for the audition. Oh my god, I needed to! I bear in mind, I assumed I used to be auditioning for a cheerleader, so I borrowed my buddy’s cheerleading outfit, and so they had been like, ‘No, no, no, that is the college 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.
Gigi was launched as a lovestruck pupil crushing on Marvin “Mouth” McFadden (Lee Norris).
“I didn’t know in any respect what I used to be doing, I used to be simply so glad to be there. I couldn’t imagine my luck. I do bear in mind getting the observe to cease 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 baby actor on Boy Meets World. Nevertheless, she wasn’t thrilled to have her first kiss on digital camera with James Lafferty in a scene the place she recreated Nathan’s romance with Haley for a skit.
“That is horrible,” she mentioned. “So my first kiss was on One Tree Hill, [it] was with James [Lafferty].”
She added, “I bear in mind I used to be so extremely nervous, like, kissing my hand, not consuming a shrimp skewer that day … I bear in mind asking Sophia [Bush], ‘Do you kiss throughout rehearsal?’”
“The worst half is that in that scene, I bounce him and kiss him and I had braces,” she mentioned. “So after I inform you that I jumped this poor man and punched his face with my face. You possibly can hear the smack.”
She continued, “The worst kiss of my life, of his life, I ought to problem 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 used to be utterly a Nathan woman,” she mentioned. “I had such a crush on James too, he was so good. It was merciless, the entire kiss factor.”
She quipped, “We don’t wanna get what we want for.”
In season 6, Asbille was 17, however One Tree Hill had achieved a 4 yr time-jump, growing older most characters nearer to the actors’ actual ages. Nevertheless, this put Asbille even additional away from her character in age. She was nonetheless in highschool whereas taking part in a 20-something attempting to seduce her ex, who was in a dedicated relationship.
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“I additionally bear in mind y’all being so fantastic, and protecting as properly, particularly after we had been shifting gears [in later seasons, and] she was getting extra horny,” Asbille recalled to Burton Morgan and Lenz. “[I was] having to take my shirt off, and I bear in mind being actually nervous about all of that and never understanding what I used to be purported to do. I bear in mind Sophia particularly being actually protecting, of like, ‘Alright, so we’re carrying a tube prime,’ which I actually recognize as a result of it’s scary navigating all of this and also you don’t know you can say no.”
Whereas her former costars had been appalled wanting again on the story strains she was a part of as a baby, Asbille assured them that she wasn’t terribly uncomfortable thanks largely to the ladies on set.
“Hear, I had a lot help by means of y’all and with the crew as a result of I grew up with the crew from 13 to 17, so I at all times felt actually protected,” she mentioned.
One Tree Hill launched Asbille’s profession, and she or he went on to star in Teen Wolf, Fargo and Yellowstone.
