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Welcome to the O.C Snippets
A random assortment of Mischa-related screencaptures from the new Welcome to The O.C book. Highlights include:
• The casting process for Mischa. • The driveway scene in the pilot. • What are Marissa's interests outside of Ryan? Discussions on a storyline relating to her being a Mean Girl, and/or helping the girl Luke cheats on her with and gets pregnant. • TJ was originally supposed to have her drunk driving off a cliff and involved a cliffhanger with her to allow for Fox to re-cast Mischa if they wanted. • Filming the Luke / Marissa sex scene. Mindy acknowledging the Ben/Mischa chemistry at the start and how by the end they were not on good terms. • References to Mischa reading on set (gasp!). • References to her being isolated on set (I wonder does anyone ask her about this). • Mischa's concerns around the material and expressing her frustrations. • Mischa refusing to speak about the Trey attempted rape scene and implying it was very uncomfortable for her (and directly contradicting Stephanie in the paragraph above). • The original S1 ending involving Eddie, domestic violence and Ryan getting revenge and getting into trouble. • Potential idea of Marissa being imprisoned at the start of S3. • Josh suggesting Marissa could have survived the crash and sailed away on Seth's boat.
Remember that in a vault somewhere there is a recording of the full OC cast singing this song. Someone release it already!
Not only was Adam Brody considered for the lead role in Jumper, Mischa was too!
Rachel BIlson, 2006 at 3:25 clarifies to Kimmel that Mischa was fired.
Alan Dale also had thoughts about Marissa's ending in an IGN interview in 2006:
IGN TV: Well a year later, they did kill Marissa… Dale: I don't understand what they're planning on doing with that. I have to say, they must feel really confident with the other characters to carry it, because it's that doe-eyed gentleness that she gives off that I think was very valuable to the show and I don't know what they think they're doing. But I guess they know their own business. I'm just an actor; I don't know.