James Lafferty went by means of lots of transformations for his position as Nathan Scott on One Tree Hill, however none are extra memorable than the shaggy mane and scruffy beard he donned for season 5.

Throughout a reunion with costar Chad Michael Murray, who performed Nathan's half-brother Lucas Scott, for PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive challenge, the duo mirrored on their craziest hair moments on the present — together with Nathan's notorious shag.

"I needed to lower my hair as a result of they wanted my character to have lengthy hair, however they had been going to do flashbacks. So, they ended up having to stick extensions in my hair," Lafferty recalled of how the look got here to be. "I had this large, lengthy lion's mane, after which they took the hair that they’d lower from my head and so they lower it into little tiny items and so they pasted it with glue onto my face daily for a number of episodes."

The actor, who often sported a brief lower to painting the basketball star and father of 1, lamented that your entire course of "took hours" and because it was throughout the summer time, was "so itchy."

The look drew lots of criticism and mocking from followers, nevertheless it suited the tragic chapter within the character's life. On the time, Nathan was mourning the lack of his NBA profession after a battle with followers of a rival workforce ended with him being thrown by means of a plate-glass window and paralyzed. The accident led to Nathan turning to alcohol to manage and straining his relationship together with his spouse, Haley (Bethany Pleasure Lenz), and son Jamie (Jackson Brundage).

Finally, Nathan cuts his hair and undergoes bodily remedy, later even studying to stroll efficiently once more.

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As for Murray, the actor admits that he went by means of "lots of hair journeys."

"I used to be like, 'Dude, Lucas is at all times the ethical compass of the present. Can we do one thing unhealthy for as soon as? For the love of Pete, let me screw up and have some enjoyable with it,'" he quipped. "I feel that that's in all probability why I’d shave my head or do one thing loopy with my hair."

Murray is man sufficient to confess that there's "lots of cringe in there," recalling his quick, buzzed look in season 4, a uneven in-between haircut, and even bleaching his hair platinum-blond.

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"I feel there's lots of discovering your self, you recognize, and if you get all the way down to the reality of it, I simply had no concept who I used to be," the Gilmore Girls alum mentioned. "I assumed I used to be one thing that I wasn't and I needed to be this man. And so, you're attempting to do all these various things to be one thing, when actually on the finish of the day, simply be you. That's all you may be, and it took me a very long time to find that and to lastly be like, who I’m.

Murray continued, "Simply be you, simply be the jovial man that you’re and I feel that's why I modified my hair so many tens of millions of occasions."

Watch Lafferty and Murray reminisce about their One Tree Hill days above.

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