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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 23 November 2018
Tyler Hilton of 'One Tree Hill' balances music and acting

By MARK KENNEDY ing about it," he said.
Associated Press A cool video for the CD's
NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Hil- title track was made by
ton is an actor who is also someone very close to Hil-
a musician and he knows ton — his wife, the actress
what you're probably think- and director Megan Park.
ing: Do we really need an- She calls him an "old soul"
other actor who is also a who has lately found free-
musician? dom and is doing his best
"If it wasn't me and I heard work.
someone's like, 'Oh you "He's gone through such a
should check out this re- transformation as a person
cord, this guy's an actor,' I'd in the last five years and I
be like, 'Doesn't sound that think he let go of a lot of
cool,'" Hilton said. "I don't preconceptions and labels
necessarily want to hear put on him and the type of
music from a guy who's an music he thought he had
actor. Actors don't seem to put out," she said. "He's
that interesting to me as a gotten back to the roots of
musician. And yet that's just why he got into music."
the deal." Hilton may have played a
Hilton has managed to jerk on "One Tree Hill," but
straddle the gap between he's charming and self-
professions since he burst depreciating in person. He
onto the scene in 2005 at grew up in a musical fam-
19 playing Elvis in "Walk In this June 16, 2014 file photo, Tyler Hilton, poses at the premiere of the CBS series "Extant," in Los ily adoring Robert Johnson
the Line" opposite Joaquin Angeles. and Muddy Waters but
Phoenix and Reese Wither- Associated Press didn't look the part. "There's
spoon. He later combined nothing bluesy about a
music and acting by joining play a few songs, including something about that show "I listen to this record now 6-foot-4, lanky tall white
the "One Tree Hill" cast for "Don't Feel Like Christmas " that really got into the pop and I'm so happy. So many guy from Palm Springs, Cal-
several seasons, starting in and a dark, moody bluesy culture psyche." records I've done the past ifornia, the golf capital of
season two. one from his new CD called He's also excited for fans to I listened to and I go, 'I the world," he jokes.
Both sides of Hilton's talents "Get Down." The film is an hear his new music, a more mean if that's what we're Funny stories seem to pour
are available this winter. original story that features authentic sonic representa- all agreeing on, let's do it.' out of him, like the time
The music part is his new series regulars Hilarie Bur- tion of what interests him, And this one? I would give he lived on Tylor Swift's
album "City on Fire" out in ton, Robert Buckley, Dan- namely everything from this record as a Christmas houseboat in Nashville.
January and the acting neel Ackles and Antwon bluegrass to flamenco. He gift." "Whoever's in control is writ-
part will be when he recon- Tanner. spent a frustrating 10 years It's an impressive album with ing the strangest story for
nects with some "One Tree "'One Tree Hill' ended up with Warner Bros. Records varied song styles, including me imaginable," he said,
Hill" stars for the Lifetime TV being the biggest thing before charting his own the searing rock of the title laughing.
movie "The Christmas Con- that I've done," he said. "It's course. song, the romantic "When I He ended up under one
tract ," which comes out affected people in such "I think they saw a tall guy See You, I See Home," and of TayTay's roofs after she
Thursday, his 35th birthday. a crazy way. And even with blue eyes and they the country-ish "Overtime." reached out as a 15-year-
The TV movie won't be a though some of the other kept trying to hammer me He wrote it while filming two old to say she was a fan
terrible stretch — he'll play movies I've been in have into like a pop direction. failed TV pilots. "All of a sud- and invited him to be in
a character named Ty- won awards and been And I wanted to make ev- den this music is just coming one of her videos. "She was
ler Hilton who shows up to more prestigious, there's eryone stoked," he said. out because I'm not think- automatically different
right from the get go. I was
Leaning Tower of Pisa continues long path towards vertical like, 'This girl is a genius,'" he
said. Years later, her family
offered him a home when
Associated Press he moved to Nashville.
ROME (AP) — The Leaning Tower of Pisa isn't leaning so His big TV break came
much anymore. when it was suggested he
After more than two decades of efforts to straighten it, go on "One Tree Hill" during
engineers say the famed Tuscan bell tower has recov- its second season to sing a
ered four centimeters (1.57 inches) more and is in better song and say a few lines.
structural health than predicted. He quickly bonded with
ANSA news agency quotes a consultant to the interna- the young cast and stuck
tional committee monitoring the tilt, Nunziante Squeg- around until the show con-
lia, as saying that while the progressive recovery of tilt is cluded in 2012.
good news, the overall structural health of the tower is New episodes of "One
more important. Tree Hill" may not be being
The 12th-century tower reopened to the public in 2001 made but the series has
after being closed for more than a decade to let work- found new audiences on
ers reduce its slant. By using hundreds of tons of lead Netflix and then Hulu. The
counterweights at the base and extracting soil from un- The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is seen at right next to actors stay in touch: "It's
der the foundations, engineers initially shaved 17 inches the medieval cathedral of Pisa, in Piazza dei Miracoli Square, like every year we have a
off the lean.q in Pisa, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2012. reunion with people you
Associated Press
went to college with.q