Ashley Rickards Flying High at SXSW

What about apps? Are you huge on apps?

I love them. Yeah.

What's your favorite one?

The calendar, because, um.

Quincy here with Young Hollywood at South by Southwest. I am here with the lovely Ashley Rickards. We are on the lake. I feel like we're on a date right now. We're it's like a picnic without the food or the ants. There are birds chirping. The sun is out. It is very romantic. It's quite the scene. So, for our audience members who aren't familiar with your lovely face, as they absolutely should be. You were kind of a superstar on One Tree Hill. Can you tell us a little bit about that experience?

Oh, thanks. Yeah, One Tree Hill was a lot of fun. I mean, it was a really good eight months of my life. I loved that entire casting crew. It was just so much fun and

This is your first time at South by Southwest?

Yeah, I mean, I just wanted to see my movie, I wanted to see the other movies. I mean, this festival is just such a great energy and there's so many things going on. I just really wanted to experience it and I am doing that and it's a lot of fun.

Tell me a little bit about, um, Fly Away.

Fly Away is, um, a story of a mother and her autistic teenage daughter and it's a mother-daughter story about letting go and anyone can connect to it. Any parent, any person who's had to let go of anyone in their life.

As far as music's concerned, I was a little giddy to learn that you're a fan of Adam Lambert.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Adam Lambert is amazing. Adam Lambert, uh, I'm obsessed with Lady Gaga's new song. Oh, really? And that does not make me original. I think everybody is, but it's a great, great song.

And how do you stay connected to your friends and your family? Are you on your are you on your phone? Are you BBMing? Are you you have the tablet?

I'm a texter.

You are? And that you are you an emoticoner though? Are you smiley face, smiley face, smiley face?

Well, the thing is, is that I feel like if you say something that's sarcastic and then you don't put a smiley face or a ha ha or a JK, yeah, then it's just there's no voice inflection on texting.

What about apps? Are you huge on apps?

I love them. Yeah.

What's your favorite one?

The calendar, because, um, I mean, I I never forget anything. And that makes me sound stupid, but it's right on my phone and I meticulously plan every day.

Well, thank you so much for talking to Young Hollywood.

Yeah, no, it was fun.