TV and they declined to comment. Fox did not respond to our request. While she is working on a few projects to, as she put it, " really talk about" what she experienced during her three years on the show, Barton answered all of my questions about saying goodbye to Marissa Cooper and how she really felt about leaving The O. News: There have been so many rumors about why Marissa was killed off, so I wanted to hear, directly from you, when did those conversations about you leaving The O.
Mischa Barton: It's a bit complicated. It started pretty early on because it had a lot to do with them adding Rachel [Bilson] in last minute as, after the first season, a series regular and evening out everybody's pay—and sort of general bullying from some of the men on set that kind of felt really s--tty. But, you know, I also loved the show and had to build up my own walls and ways of getting around dealing with that and the fame that was thrust specifically at me.
Just dealing with like the amount of invasion I was having in my personal life, I just felt very unprotected, I guess is the best way to put it. I was working so hard, the longest hours probably out of all the characters. It wasn't an easy character for me to play because it wasn't me, which is why I think people liked it or thought Marissa was funny and latched on to her.
They felt like this is entertaining because she's all over the place and who is this girl? It's like because this New York girl was trying to play this ditzy L. I think that's why people connected to the character. MB: Well, I think they started to write more serious stuff for me because I wasn't good at the, like, "Oh my god, let's go shopping or get our nails done!
So then they added her first kiss with a girl and her getting drunk at her dad's party or the scene where somebody gets shot. They needed stuff that played into more of my serious side. I'll be very honest, everyone's got their strengths and their weaknesses and coming from a theater and indie background, my weakness was being ditzy.
It wasn't for me, but what I could enjoy was the fashions, the ridiculousness of it all and making it larger than life. MB: So halfway through season two I would say, when we started doubling up on episodes and shooting [became] so much harder, and again a lot of that was too much for me. I didn't know where the character was going. I look back on it pretty fondly, but there's stuff I think people did wrong and the way they handled it.
So, I just didn't feel I could keep going. This has been said before, but they kind of gave me an option. The producers were like, "Well, do you want your job and to sail off into the sunset and potentially you can come back in the future in some bizarre TV scenario or we can kill your character off and you can go on with your career that you want and what you want to do?
In the early naughties, Mischa Barton was the ultimate It Girl. The young actress had small but memorable cameos in Notting Hill and The Sixth Sense before she landed the role of a lifetime.
The series ran for three years but cemented Barton as an actress to watch. However, when the show killed off her character at the end of Season 3, Barton fell off the radar, leaving many fans wondering what happened to the talented star. Now that we're living in this era where we do speak out about our experiences and women do come clean about what was really going on News on May The actress revealed there were early talks of killing off her character when Rachel Bilson became a series regular.
She added, "Just dealing with like the amount of invasion I was having in my personal life, I just felt very unprotected, I guess is the best way to put it. She recalled them saying, "Well, do you want your job and to sail off into the sunset and potentially you can come back in the future in some bizarre TV scenario or we can kill your character off and you can go on with your career that you want and what you want to do?
Since The O. In , she joined the cast of Dancing With The Stars. But it was her personal life and party girl ways that made headlines over the years. Marissa Cooper, the beautiful and damaged daughter of a screwy, wealthy family on The O. The character, played by Mischa Barton, often battled demons of both the personal and ex-boyfriend variety.
Still, viewers were shocked when the character died in a fiery car crash at the end of the show's third season. Now, 15 years later, Barton is finally revealing what led to her exit. In a lengthy interview with E! But, you know, I also loved the show and had to build up my own walls and ways of getting around dealing with that and the fame that was thrust specifically at me. Looking at the pictures above, it's clear that Bilson really transformed from looking like a typical high-schooler to a mature college student.
Melinda Clarke played the manipulative but highly entertaining character of Julie Cooper , mother of Mischa Barton's character. After she divorced her husband, Jimmy Tate Donovan , her second - and much older - husband died.
Julie then became addicted to painkillers, but in the end, she decided to go back to college and finish her degree, looking even more refined than she ever did.
Her new hair color and cut helped show that Julie had truly undergone a personal transformation. While we all might have thought that Jimmy Cooper Tate Donovan was a victim of his wife's manipulations the first time we watched The O. He continuously screwed up, made life extremely difficult for his wife and daughter, and somehow managed to always paint himself as the victim.
Ben McKenzie Ryan Atwood. Photo: Warner Bros. Adam Brody Seth Cohen.
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