Scary reason Hilarie Burton hid feet in ‘One Tree Hill’ sex scenes

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“Drama Queens” podcast that she was “uncomfortable” when filming sex scenes that showed off her feet.Why? Because the former MTV VJ would often receive prison mail from jailers who were obsessed with her toes.Burton referenced the 2005 Season 2 episode, “Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking,” which features her character Peyton Sawyer having relations with her beau Jake Jagielski (Bryan Greenberg).“There was a couple dudes in particular that were like, ‘I’m gonna cut your feet off and put them in my refrigerator,'” the “Walking Dead” actress told hosts and “OTH” costars, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz.She added that the letters she got were “very specific” in nature and she also began obtaining these so-called love notes when started working for MTV in the early 2000s.She continued, “And I had a thing about my feet on TV.

I would always try to, like, hide my feet because I was just like, ‘I don’t want them to think I’m baiting them,’ you know?”During filming for the episode, Burton said the director, Billy Dickson, desired to shoot the intimate scene from an angle that showed “our feet and like our legs rubbing together” with the camera “coming up our bodies.” However, Burton thought the direction was “way too adult” for a teen show about high schoolers.She decided to listen to Dickson and positioned herself for the shot because “it’s so much harder to say ‘no’ to someone who you like and respect than it is to say it to a total stranger who’s just coming in to direct for 10 days.”“Back then, it was on film and you just had to trust what was going on on the monitor was what you asked for,” Burton said.

She also noted that she begged the crew not to start the scene with the shot of her feet. While she was notified that it would.