+ + + E!'s Kristin Veitch Interview with Hilarie >> 5.04.2006 (after One Tree Hill was announced the winner of E!'s Save Our Show Campaign 2006)
Kristin: Congratulations on winning this poll. I’m so impressed by your fans. You guys really blew every other show out of the water. Hilarie: Really?! That’s so cool! I was lucky enough to get to do this mall tour where basically we would just travel to different cities and hang out with the fans, and meet thousands and thousands of them. It’s just good to get to talk to them for a split second and just see the different kinds of fans and see what kind of people are drawn to what characters on our show. We’re so isolated in Wilmington, so to be able to get out and really meet these people was weird. I had no idea how popular our show was.
K: And why do you think people are so devoted and loyal to this show? H: I think because we do have such varied characters on our show, and it’s not extreme situations. It’s not a particular neighborhood. It’s not a particular economic class. It’s not a particular ethnicity or anything. You know, we just kind of represent everymen, and nobody’s really a good guy and nobody’s really a bad guy. So kids who watch the show can relate to at least one person, if not the entire group of friends as a whole. You know, I don’t even know why they’re so good to us. We feel so spoiled, because you know, when I worked at MTV for years, our whole thing was ‘All right, this show is really hot and moving on, what’s next?’ And our fans have stayed really devoted to us throughout the whole run, so it’s extraordinarily flattering.
K: Are you hoping to come back for another season? H: Yeah, I am. I love my life in Wilmington, and I love working on the show, and I really love my character, and I like that we’re ending the season with her being a little bit controversial and I would really hate to see the story end at that, you know?
K: What’s the question that everybody will be asking after the season finale? H: Peyton has always been the character that everybody else comes to with their problems and she’s kind of shouldered everybody else’s burden, and she’s had all this burden of her own. And her best friend really hasn’t been a very good friend, and she’s in love with her best friend’s boyfriend as has been trying to direct her attentions elsewhere to kind of get it out of her head, and I think with the season finale, Peyton’s just like ‘Screw it, dude! This is my time.’ So I think that’s going to be really fun! So hopefully it will come back. I want her to cause some trouble, ‘cause God knows when I was seventeen, I was causin’ sh*t left and right. You know, that’s what you do! ‘Cause consequences aren’t nearly as big as they are when you get older, and so if you’re going to go ahead and mess things up, do it senior year in high school. I’m all about it!
K: My thing is, yes, Lucas is good looking but is there no other guy for these girls to be attracted to?! H: Yeah, it’s survival of the fittest. You know, Peyton had dibs, and she gave it up, and all I’m sayin’ is I want my ball back. I gave it to you to play with for ten minutes, now give me my ball back!
HilTunes
(as written by Hilarie)
1. Ben Kweller - Sawdust Man (His new album, Changing
Horses, just came out. Get it! Ben is one of my favorites)
2. Langhorne Slim - Rebel Side Of Heaven (Been listening to this song since this summer. Hasn't gotten old yet)
4. Billy Currington - Good Directions (I have such a crush on Mr. Currington. I pretend he's singing this song about me. Ha. Southern boys make me nuts.)
5. Tom Waits - Sea of Love (This is a sexy damn song. I want to slow dance to this real bad.)
6. The Avett Brothers - Will You Return (A friend just gave me this song on a mixtape. This song is a gift I
love from a friend I love.)
7. Gladys Knight and the Pips - Nitty Gritty
(Get dressed to this song. You'll feel badass all day.)
8. Computer Camp Love - Datarock (Blogging makes me think of this song. Ha.)
9. Pash - Kill the Rich Boys (Meredith, the lead singer, is one of my best friends from high school. She is unreal good! And foxy as hell.)
10. Foy Vance - Be with Me (Do you want to be with me???)
Schedule
Hilarie Burton OnlineMonday, August 30: 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Somewhere A Clock is Ticking"
Tuesday, August 31: 8:00a USA - White Collar
"Unfinished Business" 9:00a USA - White Collar
"In the Red" 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Something I Can Never Have"
Wednesday, September 1: 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Truth Doesn't Make a Noise" 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"The Lonesome Road" 10:00p LMN - Normal Adolescent Behavior
Thursday, September 2: 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" 11:00p USA - White Collar [R]
"In the Red"
Friday, September 3: 1:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Lifetime Piling Up" 6:00p USA - White Collar
"Unfinished Business" 8:00p USA - White Collar
"In the Red"
Saturday, September 4: 9:00a SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe" 10:00a SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Sympathy for the Devil" 11:00a SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Even Fairy Tale Characters Would be Jealous" 12:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)"
Sunday, September 5: 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"We Change, We Wait" 4:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Screenwriter's Blues" 5:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three Tonight" 6:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Searching For a Former Clarity"
Monday, September 6:
Tuesday, September 7: 10:00a USA - White Collar [R]
"Unfinished Business" 11:00a USA - White Collar [R]
"In the Red" 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"What Could Have Been"
Wednesday, September 8: 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"The Tide That Left and Never Came Back"
Thursday, September 9: 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"The Leavers Dance"
Friday, September 10: 5:05a CINEMAX - The Secret Life of Bees 2:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R] 3:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Like You Like an Arsonist"
Saturday, September 11: 9:00a SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"You Have Got to be Kidding Me.." 10:00a SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Things A Mama Don’t Know" 11:00a SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"A Hand To Take Hold of The Scene" 12:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"We Change, We Wait"
Sunday, September 12: 6:00p SOAP - One Tree Hill [R]
"Letting Go"
