One Tree Hill Stars Describe the Misogyny Behind Their Maxim Cover Shoot
glamour.com(allegedly) on the part of the show's creator Mark Schwahn. Sorry, I lied. It wasn't good news. On their One Tree Hill recap podcast , , and Bethany Joy Lenz recapped the season four episode “Can't Stop This Thing We Started,” in which Rachel (Danneel Ackles) poses for Maxim magazine, coinciding with the real at the time.
According to Burton and Bush, they were coerced into doing the shoot through threats to their jobs with a side of verbal abuse, while Lenz was specifically told she was not wanted for the cover because she was too fat.
I know.According to Bush, showrunners saw that young men were attracted to violence against women, so in order to draw in more male viewers, decided to double down on the misogyny with the “Psycho Derek” character and the Maxim cover. “I literally got told, ‘If you do not go and shoot this cover with your costars, we will guarantee you that you will never be let out for a press day, a movie, an event, any of your charities.
We will keep you here for ever,’” Bush said. Burton, who apparently didn't want to do the photo shoot either, remembered Schwahn telling them, “Look, all the other shows have been on the cover of every single magazine and no one wants you guys.
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