Welcome to The O.C.! Ben McKenzie, Adam Brody, Mischa Barton and Rachel Bilson have been catapulted to fame whereas starring on the hit teen drama.
The Fox collection ran from August 2003 to February 2007 and centered on the lives of prosperous youngsters in Newport Seaside, California. McKenzie (Ryan Atwood), Brody (Seth Cohen), Barton (Marissa Cooper), Bilson (Summer time Roberts), Peter Gallagher (Sandy Cohen), Kelly Rowan (Kirsten Cohen) and Melinda Clarke (Julie Cooper) starred on the present.
A slew of then-emerging faces appeared on The O.C. too. Chris Pratt, Olivia Wilde, Shailene Woodley and Nikki Reed have been among the many soon-to-be well-known visitor stars who stopped by for some episodes.
The drama made headlines for its story traces on a couple of event, however nobody — informal viewer or longtime fan — can overlook the dying of Barton’s Marissa in season 3. “I simply had lots in my profession that I needed to do and achieve,” the actress instructed The New York Instances in Might 2019. “I felt like issues have been actually closely reliant upon me, and I used to be getting no time to do any of the opposite provides that have been on the market.”
Barton, who claimed it was her thought to depart, added: “Making the present was lots in the direction of the top. I actually really feel like all the things form of labored out in the way in which it was in all probability speculated to. I’ll by no means have gotten a job or a profession if I hadn’t simply taken it then.”
The Dancing With the Stars alum additional alleged that she pushed for her character’s controversial demise. “I fought tooth and nail for [the alternate ending in which Marissa moved] to not occur as a result of I simply don’t assume that’s Marissa Cooper. I simply don’t assume crusing off into the sundown’s the correct goodbye,” she mentioned. “She’s a kind of burnout characters the place I don’t understand how rather more we may have finished along with her anyway.”
Whereas followers know what occurred to Marissa, Bilson was solely left to take a position as to Summer time and Seth’s future. “Yeah, positive. Why not?” the Hart of Dixie alum completely instructed Us Weekly in December 2019 when requested if the couple would nonetheless be collectively. “You all the time need a blissful ending.”
Scroll right down to see what the forged of The O.C. has been as much as because the iconic collection ended.
