Kelsey Asbille Remembers Padding Her Bra for ‘One Tree Hill’ at 13
Teen dramas are known for older actors playing teens, but… Kelsey Asbille‘S One Tree Hill Arc marked the rare occasion of a teenager playing an older character.
The yellowstone actress attended the monday march 4 episode of the Podcast ‘Drama Queens’ to talk about her first professional job on the WB/CW drama as Gigi Silveri, the role she played from 2005 to 2009.
‘I was 13 and you were all so beautiful [women],” Asbille, now 32, recalled to cohosts Hilarie Burton Morgan And Bethany Joy Lenz. “I hid my bra before the audition. Oh my god, I had to! I remember thinking I was auditioning to be a cheerleader, so I borrowed my friend’s cheer outfit, and they were like, “No, no, no, this is the school nerd.”
Burton Morgan, 41, said she was “shocked” because she has a 14-year-old son and Lenz, 42, whose daughter just turned 13, agreed.
Gigi was introduced as a lovestruck student in love with Marvin “Mouth” McFadden (Lee Norris).
“I didn’t know what I was doing at all, I was just so happy to be there. I couldn’t believe my luck. I remember getting the note to stop smiling,” Asbille said, laughing.
The actress, who turned 14 shortly after getting the job, was grateful to work with Norris, who grew up as a child actor on Boy meets world. However, she was not happy with her first kiss on camera James Lafferty in a scene where she recreated Nathan’s romance with Haley for a skit.
“This is terrible,” she said. “So my first kiss had begun One Tree Hill, [it] was with James [Lafferty].”
She added, “I remember being so incredibly nervous, like I kissed my hand and didn’t eat a shrimp skewer that day… I remember asking Sophia [Bush]’Do you kiss during rehearsal?’”
“The worst part is that in that scene I jumped on him and kissed him and I had braces,” she said. “So when I told you I jumped this poor man and hit his face with my face. You can hear the crash.”
She continued, “For the worst kiss of my life, of his life, I should apologize. I’m so sorry.”
Asbille was also a fan of Lafferty before she was cast and watched One Tree Hill before you get the gig. “I was totally a Nathan girl,” she said. “I was so in love with James too, he was so nice. It was cruel, the whole kissing thing.”
She joked: “We don’t want to get what we wish for.”
In season 6, Asbille was 17, but One Tree Hill had a four-year time jump, bringing most of the characters closer to the actors’ actual ages. However, this caused Asbille to be even further removed from her character in age. She was still in high school and played a twentysomething woman who tried to seduce her ex, who was in a committed relationship.
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“I also remember you all being so wonderful, and protective too, especially when we were shifting gears [in later seasons, and] she became sexier,” Asbille recalled to Burton Morgan and Lenz. “[I was] I had to take off my shirt and I remember being very nervous about it all and not knowing what to do. I remember Sophia being especially protective and saying, “Okay, so we’re wearing a top,” which I really appreciate because it’s scary having to navigate all of this and you don’t know you can say no .
As her former co-stars looked back in shock at the storylines she was a part of as a child, Asbille assured them that she didn’t feel particularly uncomfortable, thanks in large part to the women on set.
“Listen, I’ve had so much support from all of you and from the crew, because I grew up with the crew from the ages of 13 to 17, so I always felt really protected,” she said.
One Tree Hill launched Asbille’s career, and she played the lead role Teenage wolf, Fargo And Yellowstone.