2009 has been quite a year for Austin Nichols. He became a series regular on the popular long-time drama 'One Tree Hill', began work on a new film, and even developed some additional career aspirations for himself outside of the entertainment industry. He discussed that and much more with me including what he would like to see happen with his role of Julian on 'One Tree Hill'.

Q- How has filming been for you lately?

A- Fun, it's been busy. I'm shooting a movie as well right now so I've been in between LA and Wilmington a lot. The movie is called 'Beautiful Boy', it's with Michael Sheen. It's just an incredible piece of writing about a husband and wife who find out their son was involved in a campus shooting. I play a writer who writes about the tragedy. I'm really happy about it.

Q- This is your first full season on 'One Tree Hill', how has that been like for you?

A- It's great. It's exciting. It's different from being a guest. You feel more responsible for the show as a whole, for the final in product, as a regular. But it's been fun. As far as I can tell, this season there has been really great material and better than any season before it so it's been really cool.

Q-Had you ever seen the show before joining it?

A-No I hadn't. I really didn't watch that much television and I think the show had a certain audience, younger. But I think the audience is actually growing now. The show is kind of older and more mature and not just limited to a young audience anymore. My parents and all my friends now are watching the show and they are in love with it, and telling all their friends to watch it. So that's been cool. It's been cool to see that sort of a reaction to a show that's been on for that long. And to see that kind of an audience grow and branch out. And people love to see stuff they can relate to. There's heart in it. It's real stuff.

Q- Why do you think the Julian and Brooke relationship and storyline has stood out so much?

A- For some reason there's this it factor. When Brooke and Julian, and Sophia and I get together there's just a great chemistry that happens. There's just this really great energy there when we work together.

Q- In the most recent episode, Julian said he's not sure if he will ever be ready for kids, what do you think about that? Would you like to see Julian as a dad?

A- Yeah I absolutely would. I think it would be fun to explore as an actor and go through sort of what that's like. I think any guy at Julian's age is grappling with the same thing because when you get out of college having a few years of what you're going to with your life and ....then all of a sudden you get to a certain age and you're like, wow, I can't party like I used to, and I need to exercise and I need to get my professional life going or wow, she's a great woman, maybe I should marry her. You know all these questions start coming up at that age. It's been really cool to explore that. But yeah I think Julian wants to have children, I think he's just scared because as a man you want to be ready for those things. You want to have enough money, and you want to have a place for them to grow up healthy and you want to be able to support them and put them through college and so you don't want to dive into having kids being unprepared.

Q- Julian has been working with more of the other cast members lately. How was it to shoot the camping scene with James, Antwon and Lee?

A- It was great. That was the first time Julian and Nathan had actually had a talking scene together. I remember having a talk with the writers and Mark Schwahn, and saying look I mean Julian isn't really interacting with anybody but Brooke and now he's a big part of the One Tree Hill world and let's get him out there and involved with everybody. And so it was nice. I got a lot of emails and text messages from family and friends saying it was so cool to see you working with other people. It was like a new view point

 

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Isn't Austin completely adorable in this picture



And what about Robert, tender and sweet like we expect him to be.


 

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Is Austin Lighting Sophia's Bush?

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Sophia looked gorge in a sexy, black lace Max Azria dress and walked the carpet solo, dodging personal questions. However, once she got inside, she was quick to meet up with her "good friend" and costar Nichols, who just happened to be moonlighting as her date, we guess.

The two were not PDA-ish at all, but they were clearly there together. They chatted closely for a while before heading into the theater to watch the show, their goonish guard reps in tow everywhere they went, natch. Hands off the merchandise in every regard. Hello, isn't four a crowd?

Puppy-like Nichols followed Sophia around for most of the night, but when it was time to exit out the front, Sophia made a beeline for the door alone. A-L-O-N-E. Yeah, that makes a lotta sense: your first big outing as a brand-new couple, no coziness whatsoever, and separate exits. Sounds like a real burning love affair with those two already. They make Robsten look like friggin' Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart or somethin'.

Even though Bush referred to Nichols as her boyfriend to friends, Austin played coy when our ownParty Girl asked him if they were dating.

"I'm not gonna say anything except that...I'm here to drink. We were talking before. We have a bunch of friends together—we work together," Austin said.

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Sophia Bush & "Boyfriend" Austin Nichols Step Out

Looks like life is imitating art for One Tree Hill costars Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols!

The onscreen couple looked like a real-life twosome as they stepped out at the Hollywood Style Awards last night.

Sophia, who was presenting an award to Max Azria, hit the carpet solo, but she stayed close to Austin inside and was overheard mentioning her "boyfriend" to partygoers.

Austin, who wasn't presenting or receiving an award, played it coy when asked about his status as her plus-one...

"To be honest, I'm here to drink the free tequila and come to the Hammer Museum because I'm an art lover," he explained of why he happened to be at the event. "I'm just here to enjoy the party!"

When asked specifically if he was Sophia's date for the night (which he was so obviously was), he wouldn't confirm or deny the hookup.

"I'm not gonna say anything except that...I'm here to drink. We were talking before, we have a bunch of friends together, we work together," he said.

On a purely platonic level, Austin was also seen talking to Zachary Quinto, who was on hand to present an award to Hayden Panettiere.

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MS: [Laughs.] I looked at the first few episodes this year and I think there was more skin on the show
than there had ever been but most of it was guys. There was the "From Here To Eternity" shot of Julian
(played by Austin Nichols) and Brooke. It wasn't a conscious effort but they are good looking guys and
we have a female fan base. For Austin, I started writing shirtless scenes for him because I thought
he was sexy as hell. We talked about Rob and we talked about James [Lafferty] but Austin is in great
shape, too. I tease those guys "Don't fight it because you'll be happier when you're old like me and you
have a nice, recorded history of how sexy you were at some point in your life." It's funny because we
added so many female characters this year and we have such a female driven demo but the guys we
do have are certainly good looking and, as I tell them, it will never be the point. It will never be the scene
about you being shirtless but once in awhile it's not a terrible thing to have a sexy show on TV,
that's for sure. 

Source: The Futon Critic