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Chad Michael Murray says fans still love his time as Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill
Murray has made Freaky Friday fans of his three kids he shares with wife Sarah Roemer
The actor tells PEOPLE what lines his fans quote to him the most from his previous roles
Chad Michael Murray fans still have a soft spot for his past work.
Speaking with PEOPLE at a special screening of Freakier Friday in New York on Monday, July 28, the actor tells PEOPLE that while fans show love to all his roles, there are a couple of nostalgic pieces that he’s best remembered for. When it comes to quoting a particular line back at the actor, fans usually turn to 2004’s A Cinderella Story, where he starred opposite Hilary Duff.
“The quotes are usually from Cinderella Story,” he said, noting, “I think, ‘Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought’ all the time, that’s one. ‘It’s you Peyton, the one I want standing next to me.’ “
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Chad Michael Murray as Lucas Scott in “One Tree Hill”
The actor added that when fans aren’t quoting the Disney movie at him, they’re remembering him for his time on One Tree Hill.
“That’s probably the one thing that most people would come over about. I mean, I was there for six years so that’s a large body of work, that’s a large chunk of time,” Murray tells PEOPLE.
“Where you do a movie and it’s a moment — you’re there for three, four months and that movie’s an hour and a half long — versus someone sculpting 136 hours of good quality television, I think that there’s a chance that that impact might be a little bit vaster.”
The actor does get plenty of fans who celebrate him from the first Freaky Friday.
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Lindsay Lohan and Chad Michael Murray in “Freaky Friday”
“The guy down there, he just sung ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time,’ and I said he crushed it. He crushed it. He’s like, ‘Get out there and do it for me. Please do,’ because I did it in a neighborhood back then, and that was so terrifying,” Murray laughed.
In another conversation with PEOPLE at the film’s premiere, the actor opened up about sharing Freaky Friday with his three kids for the first time.
“I think that this film might have more of an impact on my family than it does on the average family, just due to the fact that we kind of live it a little bit,” he tells PEOPLE.
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Sarah Roemer and Chad Michael Murray with family attend the ‘Freakier Friday’ Premiere on July 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Murray and wife Sarah Roemer sat their kids down for a viewing just before the sequel began to shoot.
“I don’t typically show them a lot of my work. It’s not something that I’m like, ‘Hey guys, come, come watch what Dad’s doing,’ but this one was different. I wanted to say, ‘Hey guys, this is what Dad’s going to do tomorrow,’ ” he explains.
“So we sat down, we watched it, and I just remember them picking on me, ‘Dad, what is wrong with your hair?’ And ‘Dad, you can’t sing. What’s going on?’ And they were embarrassed for me, as they should have been.”
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