Sophia Bush and Chris Carmack In Conversation

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00:00Well, shall I begin?

00:01Okay, you want to start?

00:02I also love that in this moment, all the folks with us are getting like a real inside peek

00:08at the way scene partners work.

00:11Yeah, that's true.

00:12This is kind of what we did, you know, back then is to sit and bring all of these questions

00:18we've been thinking about, you know, into our rehearsal room and our table reads and

00:22our cast dinners and, you know, mornings over coffee on set.

00:28It's like this, this is really the fun part about our jobs.

00:32How did you start to prepare once you first read the script and said, oh, I want to do

00:37this?

00:38What was your next order of business to get into character?

00:41Oh, well, my next order of business is to relate to Tom, not think about how I'm going to play

00:47Tom.

00:48I'm thinking about what do I know about Tom and how can I bring something of myself into

00:54Tom?

00:55And my hook in was family.

00:58Love of family.

00:59I've got two daughters.

01:00I would fight for them.

01:02I would die for them.

01:03And I think there's a lot of that in Tom Truby.

01:07And he has been, we find out that he's kind of been devastated and lost a bit of his family.

01:13And here's an opportunity to reclaim a new family.

01:19And maybe he doesn't do it in the best way, but it's out of, it's out of love and need

01:27and fear and grief and obsession.

01:30So I found all of those things to, to, to, to start with Tom.

01:34Where did you start with Allie?

01:36Yeah, I am similarly to you.

01:39I think figuring out what I understand about someone, even as, as you were saying, you know,

01:45even if they're doing something that you could call wrong, you know, how do you understand

01:52the motivation and the way you talk about Tom's humanity?

01:56For me, I had to really unpack who Allie is.

02:01I had to unpack what her journey has been.

02:04I, I had to, um, as myself, even look at some of the things that this character criticizes

02:13about herself.

02:15And I hated some of that for her.

02:18You know, there, there are things that she brings up in the story.

02:21I don't want to give any spoilers, but where I thought you didn't do anything wrong there,

02:25you know, and don't you see?

02:27And I, I caught myself wanting to support this person.

02:31And I said, Oh, I'm the hooks are in.

02:33I care.

02:34I care about this family.

02:35I care about their struggles.

02:37And then what I, what I always make sure I have to do is come to terms with both what

02:43I relate to a character on and what I don't and ensure that I can deconstruct any favoritism

02:51on this end of the spectrum and any judgment on this end of the spectrum and really just

02:56figure out how to put a, a nuanced, complicated human being together.

03:03And then I think something that was really impactful for me, I mean, a couple of things,

03:09understanding this, uh, question of identity and family, you know, my partner's kids are

03:14adopted.

03:15My best friend's son is my godson.

03:18Obviously I did not give birth to him, but I would, I would literally give up my life

03:24for that kid.

03:25I have two friends who have a gorgeous, gorgeous family and both of their children, they adopted

03:33through the foster care system.

03:35And I watched them fight for years for those children.

03:40And I got to ask them about what it felt like to have raised them, you know, from the time

03:48they were little babies and spend years not knowing if their, if their children would stay

03:53their children, what that limbo felt like, what that journey was like, how they held on to

03:59their humanity, how they didn't just die from the anxiety and the fear.

04:04And it was so gorgeous to have people share, you know, all of these, these journeys and

04:11these experiences, because then I got to think about, you know, imagine being trapped in that

04:18limbo that I know my friends were in, for example, imagine the limbo hitting you when

04:22your kid's 15, it all, all the information, all of the experiences, you know, the, the way

04:29we build our modern families, all of it became really beautiful, um, fuel to understand, you

04:39know, that yes, biology is something and also family is what you make it.

04:44And it, it colored the story for me in a really cool way.

04:50Okay.

04:50I have a good one.

04:51Speaking of, you know, the fandom that's excited about this crossover, because one of the things

04:57that I loved the most about working on One Tree Hill, and that I know the fans loved was

05:02my character's arc.

05:05She really got to start as one thing and then evolve into something, um, that I loved that

05:12felt different.

05:13And you got to do something really similar playing Luke on the OC.

05:19Do you think that was the moment in time?

05:22Do you think we both just got lucky with storyline?

05:27Like what was the journey for you with, with carrying him through his arc?

05:33Well, I, you know, I think I got cast as Luke because I looked a certain way.

05:37Okay.

05:38You know, I was on Abercrombie bags and, you know, underwear modeling.

05:42And there was a, they even put a joke in the script about like, Hey, Abercrombie, you know?

05:47So I was very sort of stereotypically this guy that they wanted to look like Luke, um, you

05:55know, but our first season, I think was like 25 episodes.

05:58It's a lot of episodes.

05:59And we spent a lot of time together on set with the writers and producers.

06:03And I, I, you know, I think they got to know me as a person more and they started to layer

06:09a little bit more of the goofy, funny Luke in.

06:12And, and they kind of enjoyed bringing him in this direction of, you know, a jock who

06:19had been putting up this front.

06:21And when he became able to be himself around his new friends and the people who had been

06:29the outcasts, he suddenly like was able to be his, his goofy self.

06:35And, you know, that was a really fun way to take the character.

06:39Yeah, I think it was a similar journey for me, you know, as, as the writers got to know

06:46me, my character got, yeah, she just grew.

06:53I think they realized that I was a really sensitive soul who might, you know, be able to sort of

07:02show up in any room, but would probably be really nervous on the inside and who shows

07:08up for friends, no matter what.

07:10And, and, you know, there were certainly these bold and courageous, crazy, amazing things

07:16that she did that I don't know that I would have been able to.

07:19Um, we always joke that like every character on one trio had the most insane adult job.

07:24Like they just all, I became a fashion designer, one played in the NBA, like it was insane.

07:29But I think there were certain things about, you know, like integrity and feistiness and

07:38passion and whatever that, um, that I know they certainly started to layer in there for

07:44me that, yeah, just made me feel like I could bring a little more of myself to her.

07:48Yeah.

07:48I think that happens, that tends to happen over time when you're working on a series that

07:52lasts a long time, the writers get to know you and they start putting more of you.

07:56And when you've been on a show, like on Grey's seven years now, I've seen a lot of myself

08:01on screen.

08:02I was going to ask that.

08:04I love that.

08:05That's so fun.

08:05We have discussed that there are, um, thriller moments.

08:11Things take a turn.

08:13Everyone knows we had to work with stunt coordinators.

08:15I won't say how or by whom, but there is a moment in the film that did make me feel stressed

08:26for you because no one, there was no stunt performer who could take the hit.

08:30It's literally a closeup on your face and you get hit with, shall I say, very hot water.

08:41How hot was it?

08:47Or are you just that good at acting?

08:53Well, no, I'm, I, I, I'm a terrible actor.

08:56So I requested boiling water so that I could have a real reaction.

09:00Great.

09:00Love that.

09:01Your, your ability to heal your face is amazing.

09:04Yeah, no, it took, I did, I refused interviews for a while while it was, while it was healing

09:08up.

09:09No, uh, no, it was, uh, it was, I think it was slightly warm because it had to be like

09:14giving off a little bit of steam, but, um, no, it did not scald me, but, uh, you know,

09:21I enjoy, I enjoy, I enjoy taking a shot to the face from time.

09:24Well, it looks so brutal in the movie.

09:29That was one of those things.

09:30I was like, I was in the room for that.

09:31Why am I so startled?

09:34Yeah, no, I, I did take some other shots to the face too, which, uh, I, I love that.

09:39I love, I love doing stunts and fights.

09:41I love it.

09:42I do too.

09:43It's so fun.

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