Teen dramas are known for having older actors play teenagers, but Kelsey Asbille(*13*)‘s One Tree Hill arc marked the rare occasion the place a youngster 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 professional process on the WB/CW drama as Gigi Silveri, the role she performed from 2005 to 2009.
“I was 13, and y’all were like those stunning [women],” Asbille, now 32, recalled to cohosts Hilarie Burton Morgan and Bethany Joy Lenz(*13*). “I crammed my bra for the audition. Oh my god, I needed to! I be mindful, I thought I used to be auditioning for a cheerleader, so I borrowed my friend’s cheerleading outfit, and they have been like, ‘No, no, no, this is the college nerd.'”
Burton Morgan, 41, said she was “horrified” as she has a 14-year-old son and Lenz, 42, whose daughter just became 13, agreed.
Gigi was introduced as a lovestruck student crushing on Marvin “Mouth” McFadden (Lee Norris(*13*)).
“I didn’t know at all what I used to be doing, I was just so satisfied to be there. I couldn’t imagine my success. I do be mindful getting the be aware to forestall smiling,” Asbille mentioned with amusing.
The actress, who grew to become 14 in a while once you have the task, was once grateful to be paired up with Norris, who grew up as a kid actor on Boy Meets World. However, she wasn’t thrilled to have her first kiss on camera with James Lafferty(*13*) in a scene where she recreated Nathan’s romance with Haley for a skit.
“This is terrible,” she mentioned. “So my first kiss was once on One Tree Hill, [it] used to be with James [Lafferty].”
She added, “I bear in mind I used to be so incredibly frightened, like, kissing my hand, not eating a shrimp skewer that day … I be mindful asking Sophia(*13*) [Bush(*13*)], ‘Do you kiss all over rehearsal?'”
“The worst section is that during that scene, I bounce him and kiss him and I had braces,” she mentioned. “So after I let you know that I jumped this poor guy and punched his face with my face. You can hear the smack.”
She endured, “The worst kiss of my life, of his lifestyles, I must factor an apology. I’m so, so sorry.”
Asbille was once additionally partial to Lafferty sooner than she was once cast and watched One Tree Hill previous to getting the gig. “I used to be utterly a Nathan woman,” she stated. “I had this type of overwhelm on James too, he used to be so nice. It was cruel, the whole kiss thing.”
She quipped, “We don’t wanna get what we want for.”
In season 6, Asbille was 17, but One Tree Hill had carried out a 4 12 months time-jump, getting older maximum characters closer to the actors’ real ages. However, this put Asbille even further away from her persona in age. She was still in high school while taking part in a 20-something seeking to seduce her ex, who was once in a committed courting.
“I additionally remember y’all being so glorious, and protecting as well, especially once we were moving gears [in later seasons, and] she was getting more attractive,” Asbille recalled to Burton Morgan and Lenz. “[I used to be] having to take my shirt off, and I take note being in point of fact anxious about all of that and not figuring out what I was intended to do. I have in mind Sophia in particular being really protective, of like, ‘Alright, so we’re wearing a tube top,’ which I truly recognize as it’s scary navigating all of this and you don’t know that you can say no.”
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While her former costars had been appalled having a look again at the tale strains she was once part of as a kid, Asbille assured them that she wasn’t terribly uncomfortable thanks largely to the women on set.
“Listen, I had so much strengthen through y’all and with the crew because I grew up with the crew from 13 to 17, so I at all times felt really protected,” she mentioned.
One Tree Hill launched Asbille’s career, and he or she went directly to celebrity in Teen Wolf, Fargo and Yellowstone.
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