

We've lit torches and we're ready to go to war for each other. So many of us as women have had this uniting experience and this rallying cry of the #MeToo movement. I don't know many people who've had the opportunity to take a wound and go back and clean it out, and then stitch it together beautifully. How has this experience been for the three of you? With the Drama Queens podcast, you, Hilarie, and Joy have talked about how this is allowing you to "reclaim" One Tree Hill and really dive deeper into everything that happened behind the scenes. What's going on here?" We just have a lot of energy, and we've built this over 20 years. Everyone on set was like, "Oh my god, y'all are like a tornado. It was just so much fun to have them here and to do it. I just knew Joy had to play her, and Hilarie the other one. So when I read the script for their episode, one of the sisters is a mess. She's always wanted the opportunity to play somebody messy. In our dissection of One Tree Hill with the podcast, Joy has talked about how, because she played Haley, everyone really thinks of her as this good girl. Want them to come play them?" I was so stunned because they had to come film, like, the following week. So Katie, my sweet angel of a boss, listened to all of the press I did for Good Sam before the premiere, heard me talking about wanting Hilarie and Joy to come play, and sent me the script for Season 1, Episode 8 and was like, "There's sisters in 1x08. I was doing press for Good Sam, and because of Drama Queens, everyone was asking if Hilarie, Joy, and I would ever act together again and if I'd have them on Good Sam.

It just so happened that Episode 8 of Good Sam was the script we were getting the day we got back to filming in 2022.

We've been together so much that we were kind of like, Wait, we haven't all acted together onscreen in 14 years! It has been 11 years for Joy and I, and 14 years for me and Hilarie. Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz are going to appear in an upcoming episode of Good Sam, and it's the first time you've all acted onscreen together since One Tree Hill. So when the script was ready in 2020, I read it and I just knew I wanted to work on it.Ĥ. The dynamic of the father and daughter and this generational shift between a family dynasty that mirrors the battle we're in as a society with, how do we allow more women to take seats at the table? You know, how do we create new verticals of leadership? How do we end harmful patriarchy, and what does it look like moving forward? I couldn't stop thinking about it. I remember saying to her, "Well, I want to read them all when they're done, but that medical show, that's really sticking to me for some reason." So Katie and I went out to dinner, and she told me about three shows she was working on, all of which sounded amazing. He told me she was working on a script that wasn't ready yet, but he knew we'd hit it off. I was looking at properties to produce, and her wonderful agent, David Boxerbaum, who represents all of these amazing writers, was sending me some scripts. How did you first get involved?īack in 2019, I had a dinner with Katie Wech. First, you started working on Good Sam before the pandemic, so it has been quite a few years in the making.
