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Chad Michael Murray, One Tree Heel?

Before starring on One Tree Hill, Chad Michael Murray had an arc on Dawson’s Creek playing Charlie, a love interest for Jen and Joey.

However, while Charlie was popular, Murray didn’t seem to make many friends during his initial time in North Carolina, where OTH was later filmed.

During a Paley panel in 2009, Philipps referred to him as “a douche,” later adding, “Don’t worry. I’m not really concerned about burning bridges with CMM.”

Van Der Beek remarked, “He’s actually come a long way.” Following the event, Philipps tweeted, “Just finished the Dawson’s Creek panel. Maybe I was too harsh on Chad M2… Nah.”

Murray, for his part, has kept a low profile, stating in 2015 that he learned a lot from the experience.

“I had the opportunity to learn from people who had been doing it for a couple of years longer than I was when I walked into the Dawson’s cast,” he told Cosmopolitan.com in 2015. “You know, Michelle and James and Katie and Josh—they really kind of guided me because they’d already been around for five, six years, maybe longer. And if they had the time, they were showing me the ropes. I had no idea what lighting was; I had no idea about a lot of the technical aspects of what we do, and so I’m grateful for that experience.”