One day, Sophia Bush, who has starred on The CW’s One Tree Hill for nine seasons, was sitting in the producers’ office when they said, “We have something we need to talk to you about.”
“It was this weird thing where I was like, ‘Why is everyone sitting down? I feel like I’m being called into the principal’s office,’” Bush tells The Hollywood Reporter. But the actress wasn’t in trouble after all. It turns out the producers wanted to ask Bush to direct the penultimate episode of The CW drama, which is finally ending after nine seasons.
“I burst into tears and acknowledged what an amazing honor that was to be trusted with that,” she says.
Bush, who stars as Brooke Davis on the series, has directed several other episodes of the show. She says that directing the second to last episode of the show felt “very poignant.”
“Everything was really important and everything was really valuable,” she says. “Because I knew that it was the last chance that I was going to have to tell these stories and to honor these characters and to really show their relationships. It just felt supremely important.”
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