Sophia Bush “fell in love with One Tree Hill for the first time”

Sophia Bush takes a trip into the past and falls in love with her past!

In the episode of her on Thursday, 27 June Melodramatic characters Podcast, the actress, 41, told her co-hosts and former co-stars Bethany Joy Lenz and Hilarie Burton that she has a new appreciation for OneTreeHill now that she has returned to the show older and wiser.

When asked if they would reprise their roles, Bush admitted that she would never have been willing to do so before launching her podcast.

“It’s so interesting how this show made me fall in love again, maybe for the first time really with our show,” she gushed. “And now I’m like, oh my God. I want to – I want to do an episode of our show out of that feeling.”

“I’m just so proud. I feel so connected to it. I really feel like we created something really special,” Bush continued, adding that it would be “so cool” to go into a “parallel universe and do an episode from that place and see what it feels like.”

OneTreeHill It first aired on WB in 2003 and the finale aired nine years later in 2012. The series originally followed estranged brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) and their shared goal of making it big in basketball and winning their father’s affection.

The series was also carried by its female characters, particularly Brooke Davis (Bush), a cheerleader with a humorous streak and a heart of gold, Peyton Sawyer (Burton), a cheerleader with an artistic eye and an extensive record collection, and Haley James (Lenz), a student tutor who dreams of a music career.

Although Burton and her husband Murray left the series after the sixth season, Bush and Lenz played the main roles throughout the series.

In the last episode of Melodramatic charactersBurton admitted that she was thinking about leaving OTH went differently.

“Everyone said goodbye to me, but it felt like a funeral,” Burton revealed, adding that she was in a hospital bed with an artificial belly while filming the birth of her character Peyton’s baby.

“I’m lying there like I’m in a coffin,” explained Burton, 41. “James Lafferty comes to the bed and says, ‘Hey, uh, have a nice summer.’ It was so embarrassing and awful. People would put their heads on my hair and say, ‘Well, I’ll see you next season,’ and I would always say, ‘No, you won’t! What are you talking about?'”

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Burton said her co-stars and crew didn’t believe she wouldn’t return to the series she had starred in since the beginning. They even sent everyone home while she and Murray were filming their final scene because it didn’t look like the end.

“It was an out-of-body experience, (like I was) at my own character’s funeral and knowing that I wouldn’t see many of you again (for years),” Burton recalled tearfully.