INTERVIEW: Sophia Bush

In the new movie John Tucker Must Die, you'll see One Tree Hill's Sophia Bush team up with Brittany Snow, Ashanti and Arielle Kebbelto make hottie Jesse Metcalfe's life, well, miserable.

In real-life, despite some rather shoddy treatment by her ex-husband and co-star, Chad Michael Murray, Sophia isn't as hot on revenge as her big-screen alter-ego, but she does know the importance of friendship and putting your girl friends before any guy.

Recently, our friends at Teenmag sat down with Sophia. Here’s what she had to say…

Sophia Bush

TEENMAG.COM: Could you identify with your character in this movie?
S.B.: I think that we all identified with a lot of things going on in the movie. There are a lot of lessons we each had to learn in the film for each of our characters, not only realizing what it is to respect yourself enough to not be with somebody who isn't treating you the way you deserve to be treated, but also to learn to respect your friends and hold those relationships at your heart. Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love or have a crush or whatever, significant others come and go in your life, but your friends are it. My girl friends are my everything. That was something I really respected about the script, we're not tying up the issue of "treat your friends well" in a little bow and handing it to you, it's a process of trial and error, learning that lesson in a real way.

TEENMAG.COM: Have you ever tried to get revenge on an ex-boyfriend?
S.B.: I'm not much of a revenge person because the thing is I think when you start with revenge, it sort of cheapens what you've been through. My role is to sort of hold your head high and never stop looking that person in the eye because they know and you know and you're still the professional and they can just feel like an ass for the rest of their life. That's my favorite thing to do.

TEENMAG.COM:What's the worst pick-up line you've ever heard from a guy?
I don't know if I can pick the worst, I've heard some really bad things over the years. I've just gotten to the point where I don't want to be rude, but when that starts from people and its uninvited attention, it's like 'thank you, but no. I'm going to shut you down right away.'

TEENMAG.COM: What attracts you to a guy?
S.B.: I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face, more than status - those things are all fleeting. None of that matters, what matters to me is a good person, a good soul, somebody who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives. Of course its taken life experience to learn that. Its taken experience to get to a point where you can really read who somebody really is and I wouldn't change anything that I've been through with guys, be it high school, college, after... anything I've done at this point in my life. There's been a lot of good and there's been bad and there's just been amazing experiences. I greatly value that.

TEENMAG.COM: How would you describe your high school experience?
I went to an all-girls, very small, private school from 7th grade all the way to graduating high school. It's in Pasadena, California - the Westridge School for Girls, it's the most heavenly place on earth. I still go back and tour around the campus and it's really fun! It was so wonderful because the focus was the school. We had a brother school so of course we had guys to hang out with but during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a kid and do six hours of homework a night. On weekends we had a social life, we went to football games, we did that whole thing but it was such a great balance for us that it really gave my friends and I not only two solid legs to stand on being outspoken women, and not being afraid of speaking our minds to men or anybody, but we also had the time to really devote to our friendships. My girl friends are it! They are the best thing in my life! My family and my friends are top notch.

TEENMAG.COM: What's happening with One Tree Hill and the CW? (the new network that merged the WB and UPN)
Well, you know they had to combine two networks worth of programming, so [the number of shows on each] was going to be cut in half. None of us knew what was going to go or what was going to get picked up. We were definitely an "on the bubble show" and I think with the support of our fans and our viewers and the heat that the show has generated publicity-wise pushed us into being one of the ones that got to stay on the air.

TEENMAG.COM: Hooray for that! Look for OTH's season premiere this fall on the new CW network.