Charlize Theron, Melissa McCarthy, and Billy Eichner are among the Hollywood stars appearing in an online telethon Sunday that seeks to raise funds for LGBTQ+ causes and drag queens.
17.04.2023 - 20:11 / usmagazine.com
Standing together. The women of One Tree Hill first went public with harassment allegations against creator Mark Schwahn in 2017, and six years later, the actresses say it’s important to keep talking about his alleged actions.
“Until there’s some kind of change in our industry, I don’t know how we stop [speaking out],” Hilarie Burton Morgan said on the Monday, April 17, episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast. “The only reason that we made it out is because we had each other.
Cohosts Burton, 40, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz were joined by Danneel Ackles (née Harris) to recap the OTH season 4 finale. While discussing the episode, they recalled tension with Schwahn, 56, coming to a boiling point.
The showrunner — whose name is censored on the podcast — allegedly was rubbing actresses’ shoulders and putting his arms around them between takes, making the women feel uncomfortable, so Burton told him to stop touching them. He later screamed at the White Collar alum with her brother, boyfriend and boyfriend’s father in the next room, Burton alleged. No one came in to defend her. Eventually, an executive producer came in to break the tension.
“What you experienced that night, the way you got yelled at, that’s exactly the s–t I was dealing with in Chicago and also had a group of men who … never got involved and never stood up,” Bush, 40, said, referring to her four-season stint on Chicago P.D. “And I know some of them are mad that I acknowledge that when we talk about this show as well, and you know what? I don’t care. That fear that I’m going to keep talking about it better be what makes you behave better on every set that we’re on.”
All of the hosts have been open about how recalling the behind-the-scenes drama has been both
Charlize Theron, Melissa McCarthy, and Billy Eichner are among the Hollywood stars appearing in an online telethon Sunday that seeks to raise funds for LGBTQ+ causes and drag queens.
Selome Hailu “The Bear” has added Molly Gordon to the cast of its second season. The news came via Instagram posts from series creator Chris Storer and recurring star and co-producer Matty Matheson. Details regarding Gordon’s character remain under wraps, though FX confirms it is a key recurring role. The series stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmen Berzatto, an elite, Noma-trained chef who returns to Chicago to run his family’s failing sandwich shop after his older brother, Michael (Jon Bernthal), dies by suicide. The cast also includes Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas and Edwin Lee Gibson as well as Matty Matheson, who co-produces the series.
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