News in that May 14 phone interview. News has reached out to Warner Bros. 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?
I had always been supporting in The Sixth Sense and any of those things. My dream was to be offered those lead roles, so that's what happened. It just felt like it was the best thing for me and my health and just in terms of not really feeling protected by my cast and crew at that point. And then seasons two and three were still 22 episodes each.
MB: And I'm not complaining about any of that. Nobody loves their job more than me. Creator Schwartz has gone on to produce other iconic teen soaps like the original Gossip Girl and its upcoming HBO Max reboot , proving he's capable of longevity. Regardless, Barton's Marissa will go down in history as one of the most iconic IT-girl's from early-aughts teen soaps, with her character from The O.
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By Graeme Guttmann Published May 18, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics TV News the oc. After a tumultuous season of drama, one of Marissa's ex-boyfriends drove her and Ryan's car off the side of a road. Ryan pulled Marissa from the wreckage, and she died in his arms, making history as one of the most shocking TV deaths of all time.
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In a new interview with E! That was just part of the complicated reason why Marissa Cooper was ultimately killed off the show.
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