‘The O.C.’ Solid: The place Are They Now?

Welcome to The O.C.! Ben McKenzie, Adam Brody, Mischa Barton and Rachel Bilson had 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 Seashore, California. McKenzie (Ryan Atwood), Brody (Seth Cohen), Barton (Marissa Cooper), Bilson (Summer season 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 had been among the many soon-to-be well-known visitor stars who stopped by for some episodes.

The drama made headlines for its story strains on multiple event, however nobody — informal viewer or longtime fan — can overlook the dying of Barton’s Marissa in season 3. “I simply had loads in my profession that I needed to do and achieve,” the actress advised The New York Occasions in Could 2019. “I felt like issues had been actually closely reliant upon me, and I used to be getting no time to do any of the opposite affords that had been on the market.”

Barton, who claimed it was her thought to depart, added: “Making the present was loads in the direction of the top. I actually really feel like the whole lot kind of labored out in the way in which it was in all probability alleged 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 suppose that’s Marissa Cooper. I simply don’t suppose crusing off into the sundown’s the correct goodbye,” she stated. “She’s a kind of burnout characters the place I don’t understand how rather more we might have performed along with her anyway.”

Whereas followers know what occurred to Marissa, Bilson was solely left to take a position as to Summer season and Seth’s future. “Yeah, certain. Why not?” the Hart of Dixie alum completely advised Us Weekly in December 2019 when requested if the couple would nonetheless be collectively. “You at all times need a joyful ending.”

Scroll all the way down to see what the solid of The O.C. has been as much as for the reason that iconic collection ended.