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.

But
while
Charlie
got
around,
Murray
didn’t
seem
to
make
a
lot
of
friends
during
his
first
stint
in
North
Carolinav

(OTH
later
filmed
there).

During
a
Paley
panel
in
2009,
Philipps
called
him “a
douche,”
later
saying, “Don’t
worry.
I’m
not
real
worried
about
burning
bridges
with
CMM.”

Van
Der
Beek
added, “He’s
actually
come
a
long
way.”
Post-event,
Philipps
tweeted, “Just
finished
the
dawson’s
creek
panel.
Maybe
I
was
too
harsh
on
chadM2…
Nah.”

Murray,
meanwhile,
hasn’t
stirred
the
pot,
saying
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

Cosmpolitan.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.”