Hilarie

'Tree Hill's' good girl is itching to play bad
By Cristina Kinon

'One Tree Hill's" Peyton Sawyer has played the victim one too many times.

Next season, Hilarie Burton, who plays the good girl Sawyer, wants her character to turn the tables.

"I want to be a bitch real bad," Burton told the Daily News from North Carolina, where the hit CW show is taped. "I feel like aggression needs to be a mood that we see from Peyton Sawyer. And those parts are always more fun to play anyway."

She might get her wish. Major character changes are ahead for "One Tree Hill," which revolves around a group of high-school...

The Other Hilarie

Hilarie Burton stars as Peyton Sawyer—the beautiful cheerleader torn between two half brothers—on the WB drama One Tree Hill. As if that weren't enough, Hilarie is also an MTV veejay. And she just finished shooting an independent film, Our Very Own. Despite her busy schedule, Hilarie, 22, made time to chat with Teen Newsweek.

TN: What were you like in high school?
HB: I went through a lot of changes in high school. In ninth grade, I wanted to be the all-American girl. I was a cheerleader. I couldn't afford Abercrombie & Fitch [clothes], but I wanted to look like I...