It’s been more than three years since Matt Barr played a psychotic stalker on “One Tree Hill,” but his performance still resonates with the show’s passionate fans.

“I flew from Vancouver to L.A. today and probably got stopped three times in the airport from ‘One Tree Hill’ fans,” he told me this summer while promoting his new CW series, “Hellcats.”

Dan Patch, his “Hellcats” character, seems much more stable than “Psycho Derek,” who stalked Pyeton (Hilarie Burton) for much of the fourth season on “One Tree Hill.” Dan is the best friend of Marti (Aly Michalka ), who joins her college cheerleading team for the scholarship money and must now balance that competitive cut-throat world with her pre-law studies.

Dan, her best friend, is her one stable link to “real life,” but even he can’t stay away from the Hellcats, especially since he is now dating the team captain, Savannah (Ashley Tisdale).

“He is a contrast character to all of the cheerleading squad,” said Barr. “He enjoys playing the field, but he might be willing to settle down for a bit.”

Barr said it was the characters that drew him to this show.

“They originally pitched it as a cheerleading show. Then I realized the characters were interesting,” he said. “ I knew the relationships that were going on. I kind of knew those kind of people in my life. No matter what the setting is this is interesting drama.”

“Interesting drama” is certainly what he delivered on “One Tree Hill,” playing arguably the creepiest stalker in the show’s history (and there have been plenty).

Barr said he loved getting his psycho on. “It’s like being a kid, dressing up and playing GI Joe. You just get to leap into it. I don’t know how often guys like me get to play characters like that. I wish I could do back and do it again.”

He said he didn’t know when he took the role that his character would turn out to be so crazy.

Read the full inteview at Star News Online

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hellcatsFan_com - October 18, 2010 @ 3:32 pm

[Hellcats Fan] Matt Barr Talks Cheerleading and More – http://hellcatsfan.com/2010/10/matt-barr…

peytongirl - October 21, 2010 @ 8:06 am

| noticed that the author of this article spelled Peyton’s name as ‘Pyeton’. Just letting you know! :)

Hope Garcia - November 5, 2010 @ 9:35 pm

I was watching the House Bunny the other day and saw Matt Barr in it. I really love his accent on the show and he is so charming!

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