{"id":599398,"date":"2023-11-29T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:20:00","slug":"audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"#Audition Surprises, Edited Kiss \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40f14b8d2a2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Sebastian_Stan_Was_the_Casting_That_Got_Away\" >Sebastian Stan Was the Casting That Got Away<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#How_That_Athens_Companion_Series_Came_to_Be_and_Why_It_Never_Happened\" >How That Athens Companion Series Came to Be and Why It Never Happened\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#The_OCs_Casting_Director_Says_Hiring_Shannon_Lucio_Got_Him_Fired_From_Everwood\" >The O.C.\u2019s Casting Director Says Hiring Shannon Lucio Got Him Fired From Everwood<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Adam_Brody_Addresses_a_%E2%80%9CLack_of_Professionalism%E2%80%9D_During_the_Shows_Later_Seasons\" >Adam Brody Addresses a \u201cLack of Professionalism\u201d During the Show\u2019s Later Seasons<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#The_Cast_Was_Offered_the_Chance_to_Do_a_Late_Show_Top_10_List_and_%E2%80%98Got_Milk_Ad\" >The Cast Was Offered the Chance to Do a Late Show Top 10 List and \u2018Got Milk?\u2019 Ad<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Josh_Schwartz_Got_Punkd_by_Ashton_Kutcher_and_It_Sort_of_Led_to_That_George_Lucas_Cameo\" >Josh Schwartz Got Punk\u2019d by Ashton Kutcher and It (Sort of) Led to That George Lucas Cameo\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#The_OCs_Original_Pitch_Featured_a_Leading_Latina\" >The O.C.\u2019s Original Pitch Featured a Leading Latina<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Plans_for_a_Bisexual_Character_and_Kiss_Were_Thwarted_by_a_Super_Bowl_Controversy\" >Plans for a Bisexual Character and Kiss Were Thwarted by a Super Bowl Controversy\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Chris_Carmack_Got_a_Home_Makeover_for_a_Magazine_Story\" >Chris Carmack Got a Home Makeover for a Magazine Story<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/audition-surprises-edited-kiss-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Director_Doug_Liman_Jumped_Off_the_Side_of_a_Boat_While_Filming_the_Pilot\" >Director Doug Liman Jumped Off the Side of a Boat While Filming the Pilot<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In Alan Sepinwall\u2019s <em>Welcome to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-o-c\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-o-c\" data-tag=\"the-o-c\">The O.C.: An Oral History<\/em><\/a>, which he co-authors with show creator Josh Schwartz and executive producer Stephanie Savage, fans of the hit <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> \u2014\u00a0the epitome of a cultural reset \u2014\u00a0are taken right back where we started from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The more than 350-page dive into one of TV\u2019s biggest series captures in detail how the teen drama from the then-youngest showrunner to helm a network drama created a TV revolution before becoming a target of critics. No stone goes uncovered here, from the pitch and iconic pilot, all the way through that legendary soundtrack, memorable guest stars, rapidly shifting plot lines, on- and off-screen dramas, and the memes that followed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With insights from creator Schwartz, producer Savage, the entire main cast (including Mischa Barton, Adam Brody, Rachel Bilson and Benjamin McKenzie), notable guest and recurring stars, Fox and Warner Bros. Television execs and more all from interviews conducted by Sipenwall, it\u2019s an honest and thoughtful look inside the teen drama that rewrote the genre, and catapulted Schwartz and Savage into the closest thing TV has to a modern-day John Hughes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Released by HarperCollins\u2019 Mariner Books imprint <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/welcome-to-the-oc-josh-schwartzstephanie-savagealan-sepinwall?variant=41038093385762\">on Tuesday<\/a>, the 20-year oral history will have fans rewatching <em>The O.C.<\/em> with a new set of eyes and a deeper <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciation for a series whose ups and downs not only tell the story of a bygone era of linear broadcast TV, but a generation of passionate viewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    From actors\u2019 regrets and those almost spinoffs to a surprising moment while fiming the pilot and a Super Bowl controversy\u2019s impact on a storyline, here are 10 revelations from <em>Welcome to the O.C.: An Oral History<\/em> that will inspire fans to go out and buy the book for themselves. <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sebastian_Stan_Was_the_Casting_That_Got_Away\"><\/span>\n        Sebastian Stan Was the Casting That Got Away    <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The oral history is full of casting tidbits, including an extensive rundown of how the core four were selected alongside guest and recurring characters like Chris Pratt and Olivia Wilde, the actors who didn\u2019t get roles (including Chris Pine, who lost out over his acne) and even the show\u2019s decision to re-cast certain characters. That includes Marissa\u2019s (Barton) little sister Kaitlin \u2014\u00a0who went from Shailene Woodley to Willa Holland \u2014 and Ryan\u2019s (McKenzie) brother Trey, who was originally portrayed by Bradley Stryker before Logan Marshall-Green was hired to play out a more extensive storyline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But in one of the most interesting tidbits, the showrunners and casting head Patrick Rush reveals that actor Sebastian Stan \u2014 who would go on to appear in Schwartz and Savage\u2019s sophomore hit<em> Gossip Girl <\/em>before becoming a screen staple of the MCU \u2014\u00a0was actually up for one of the show\u2019s most controversial characters: Johnny \u2014 the public school version of Ryan in season three that Marissa meets after being kicked out of Harbor School. Sepinwall reveals that, in a group chat, Schwartz and Savage admitted to having zero memory of Stan\u2019s audition, with Savage texting, \u201cwtf is wrong with us?\u201d after jogging their memory. \u201cI had seen Sebastian Stan audition from New York for some role, and they weren\u2019t testing him. And I sent it to Josh and Stephanie, like, \u2018This kid\u2019s really good.\u2019 And they flew him out to test, and still didn\u2019t hire him,\u201d Rush recalls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Schwartz told Sepinwall, \u201cI said to Patrick Rush, \u2018This is the worst thing to come out of this book. I hate us.\u2019 He goes, \u2018You can just tell him not to put it in the book.\u2019 And I said, \u2018No, the shame must be publicly shared. We cannot hold this inside.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_That_Athens_Companion_Series_Came_to_Be_and_Why_It_Never_Happened\"><\/span>\n        How That <em>Athens<\/em> Companion Series Came to Be and Why It Never Happened\u00a0 <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Schwartz has previously spoken about spinoff attempts surrounding the show, with he and Savage expounding on efforts to launch series centered around Anna (Samaire Armstrong) in Pittsburgh, Summer (Bilson) going to fashion school in L.A., and <em>Pretty Things<\/em>, which would have been set at a boarding school in Santa Barbara. (A version of that last attempt actually made it into a season three episode, where Marissa gets her little sister out of trouble with a classmate, and audiences meet her roommate Hadley, played by Lucy Hale.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But the series with the most interesting story was a \u201cspiritual companion\u201d to the show, which was announced during the 2004 Fox upfronts presentation in New York,\u00a0before Schwartz had even written a single page of the script. Dubbed <em>Athens<\/em>, the series was \u201cset at a college in New England, and it was the story of this fuck-up young professor, and his relationship with this troubled kid, and about the kids that kid falls in with,\u201d The O.C. showrunner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Fox put the show on its schedule and had the creator record a video pitch, which was just \u201cJosh describing the show in an interview that was on a giant screen,\u201d according to Savage. The show\u2019s concept was at one point massaged into <em>Anthem<\/em>, which would have relocated <em>Athens <\/em>to the \u201cDirty South,\u201d but still never got off the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    While the early concept of a spinoff garnered enthusiasm from producer McG and Peter Roth, the then-president of Warner Bros. Television, there was palpable hesitation from several sources, including EP Bob DeLaurentis, who \u201cpointed out that, to my knowledge, no one has ever developed a spinoff after a season one.\u201d The ask was described as \u201cstressful,\u201d especially with Schwartz having just come off a grueling 27-episode first season. Fox programming executive Craig Erwich also revealed, \u201cThere was also a whole behind-the-scenes fight with Warner Bros. the night before the upfront over the license fee on <em>The O.C.<\/em> and whether we were going to actually announce <em>Athens<\/em> or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cFinally, I had to go to everybody at Fox and at Warner Bros. and just say, \u2018I can\u2019t do this. I can\u2019t figure out this script. It\u2019s not working, and I\u2019m not invested in [<em>The O.C.<\/em>] in the way that I need to be, because I\u2019m so worried about getting this other show off the ground,\u2019\u201d Schwartz recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_OCs_Casting_Director_Says_Hiring_Shannon_Lucio_Got_Him_Fired_From_Everwood\"><\/span>\n        <em>The O.C.<\/em>\u2019s Casting Director Says Hiring Shannon Lucio Got Him Fired From <em>Everwood<\/em> <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    One thing the oral history makes abundantly clear is how connected (and ultimately pivotal) <em>The O.C.\u2019s<\/em> creators and team were to the larger teen drama ecosystem. Beyond featuring a bevy of rising and notable young adult stars \u2014 like <em>Everwood<\/em>\u2019s Chris Pratt in <em>The O.C.\u2019s<\/em> fourth and final season \u2014 Savage spent her second season juggling <em>The O.C., <\/em>duties at Wonderland <em>a<\/em>nd co-showrunning The WB\u2019s short-lived series <em>The Mountain<\/em>, which would star <em>Gossip Girl<\/em> breakout Penn Badgley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That took place during the same season Ryan returns to Newport and, momentarily, sets his sights on Lindsay (Shannon Lucio), a brainy new kid. Rush, who had worked on <em>Everwood<\/em> and <em>Party of Five<\/em>, the casting director who describes himself as having notable experience in casting \u201cpretty crying white kids,\u201d landed on Lucio for the role. It was a character, according to Schwartz, that helped the show continue to explore \u201cthe story of Ryan as an outsider who is new to this world and who doesn\u2019t quite fit in.\u201d It would also lead to Rush\u2019s firing from <em>Everwood<\/em>: \u201cThere was some talk of me giving them all the good kids,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI said, \u2018You guys saw her and said she looked too much like Emily [VanCamp]!\u201d And they fired me.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Adam_Brody_Addresses_a_%E2%80%9CLack_of_Professionalism%E2%80%9D_During_the_Shows_Later_Seasons\"><\/span>\n        Adam Brody Addresses a \u201cLack of Professionalism\u201d During the Show\u2019s Later Seasons    <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In what helps make the book insightful and thoughtful among modern oral histories, many members of the show\u2019s creative team \u2014\u00a0and to varying degrees, its cast \u2014\u00a0reflect on how criticisms of <em>The O.C.<\/em>\u2019s evolving storylines following a stellar and positive first season began to reshape off-screen relationships and the working environment. At one point, star Adam Brody \u2014\u00a0who arguably does the most reflecting of any cast member \u2014\u00a0addresses his own on-set behavior as the show moved into its later seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Brody said he stopped reading scripts after a time, with Savage noting they piled up outside his trailer and director Norman Buckley recalling a conversation with the actor about being more invested in his performance. Schwartz also reflects on his on-set absence as this was happening, from what fueled it to its effects on the production to his regrets about that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Brody maintains he remained polite to everyone, didn\u2019t keep his colleagues and crew waiting and \u201cwould never scream or yell at anyone, or say anything fucking mean.\u201d But he does say he \u201clet my distaste for the later episodes be known. I didn\u2019t mask that at all, and I\u2019m sure I openly mocked it a bit. So I\u2019m not proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    At another point he says, \u201cI started to be creatively less interested. I blame myself for a lack of professionalism and a disrespect to the work. In terms of engagement as a whole, I\u2019ll just say that they\u2019re different shows, season one and [the later seasons]. Had the quality been the quality of season one, I\u2019m sure I would have been a lot more engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In his own reflection, McKenzie notes that his co-star was \u201cnot shy\u201d about his feelings about the show\u2019s turn in quality, but says that he wasn\u2019t the only one expressing their disappointment. \u201cIt was too bad, because I think that energy is an amorphous thing. It grows and seeps in, and it does feed on itself. And so everyone gets in the feisty, feisty mood,\u201d the actor said. \u201c[It was] a challenge, and frustrating, and all those sorts of things. I think that at times each of us fell victim to that \u2014 except Rachel [Bilson] always had a good attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((637\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TCDOCCC_EC001-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Rachel Bilson, Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, Benjamin McKenzie, in THE O.C.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TCDOCCC_EC001-EMBED-2023.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TCDOCCC_EC001-EMBED-2023.jpg?resize=200,127 200w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TCDOCCC_EC001-EMBED-2023.jpg?resize=295,188 295w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/TCDOCCC_EC001-EMBED-2023.jpg?resize=435,277 435w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"637\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Rachel Bilson, Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, Benjamin McKenzie, in THE O.C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">WB \/ Courtesy: Everett Collection<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Cast_Was_Offered_the_Chance_to_Do_a_Late_Show_Top_10_List_and_%E2%80%98Got_Milk_Ad\"><\/span>\n        The Cast Was Offered the Chance to Do a <em>Late Show <\/em>Top 10 List and \u2018Got Milk?\u2019 Ad   <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Welcome to The O.C.: An Oral History<\/em> does a decent job documenting the wild and rapid rise to stardom the young cast experienced, and the opportunities (and challenges) that came with that. During season two, Schwartz reveals that as the cast navigated how they were going to promote themselves individually during that time, they began to move away from certain PR opportunities as a group. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThe cast collectively turned down a \u2018Got Milk?\u2019 ad that would have been the first cast to do a \u2018Got Milk?\u2019 ad since \u2026 the first cast ever?\u201d Schwartz recalled. \u201cThey turned down the opportunity to do a Letterman Top Ten list. They would\u2019ve been the first cast since<em> The Sopranos<\/em> to do a Letterman Top Ten List. I realize that to an audience today, a \u2018Got Milk?\u2019 ad and a Letterman Top Ten list are lost to time. But they were big deals then.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Josh_Schwartz_Got_Punkd_by_Ashton_Kutcher_and_It_Sort_of_Led_to_That_George_Lucas_Cameo\"><\/span>\n        Josh Schwartz Got Punk\u2019d by Ashton Kutcher and It (Sort of) Led to That George Lucas Cameo\u00a0 <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In one of the show\u2019s most memorable cameos, George Lucas appears during season two as part of Seth\u2019s (Brody) <em>Atomic County<\/em> storyline, which saw him co-create a comic with Michael Cassidy\u2019s Zach featuring superpowered versions of Ryan, Marissa, Summer and Seth. As Sepinwall reveals, the cameo followed an attempt to bring Ashton Kutcher on the show, with the <em>That \u201970s Show<\/em> star set to portray an actor who wants to option and stars in the comic book\u2019s screen adaptation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That casting attempt followed an earlier experience with Kutcher during season one, in which Schwartz was \u201cinadvertently Punk\u2019d\u201d by him and McKenzie while out at a restaurant with McKenzie and Brody. The prank resulted in \u201cone of the only acts of bravery I\u2019ve ever demonstrated in my life,\u201d Schwartz recalled of a faux physical altercation that saw him \u201cput myself between Brody and this guy to preserve Adam Brody\u2019s facial bone structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    While the effort to cast Kutcher ultimately fell through, Lucas \u2014 whose daughter Katie was a fan of <em>The O.C.<\/em> \u2014\u00a0seemed like a great (and now memorable) get. It also resulted in plans for an <em>O.C.<\/em> and <em>Star Wars<\/em> crossover commercial that would air during the episode, and saw Brody helping to promote <em>Revenge of the Sith<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But as the oral history reveals, the actor wasn\u2019t as eager as his fellow cast or the crew about Lucas\u2019 presence. \u201cEveryone on set was so starstruck and so psyched to have like George Lucas there,\u201d Schwartz recalls. \u201cBrody was not into the prequels and therefore was not excited about acting opposite George Lucas. I was like, \u2018Classic Brody.\u2019 He required a little arm-twisting to ask him to shoot this commercial where he\u2019s sitting on the bed with a <em>Star Wars <\/em>helmet and a lightsaber.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_OCs_Original_Pitch_Featured_a_Leading_Latina\"><\/span>\n        <em>The O.C.<\/em>\u2019s Original Pitch Featured a Leading Latina    <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The show has been harangued by some for its lack of diversity and casting choices, but in tune with much of Schwartz and Savage\u2019s larger library, it initially featured a more inclusive story \u2014 specifically a Latina lead who would star opposite a white character with a familiar name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In this love story \u201canchored by two people,\u201d there would be, \u201cLucy Mu\u00f1oz, an outsider who wants in. The other, Ryan Atwood, someone born into the world who wants out, both driven by the sense that a life different from theirs must be better. And it\u2019s finally a coming-of-age story for these two characters, about those choices and experiences that drive us out of youth to adulthood as they try to find the courage to make decisions that will set them different from their parents, different from their friends,\u201d Schwartz recalled in the oral history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Mu\u00f1oz was the daughter of a rich family\u2019s gardener, who lived with her family in the guest quarters of the Atwoods. But despite the pitch\u2019s universal themes that could speak \u201cto any community in the country,\u201d according to Schwartz, the characters were changed at the behest of the show\u2019s studio, Warner Bros. Television. That\u2019s because the studio already had other shows featuring interracial <em>Romeo &amp; Juliet-<\/em>style stories at the time, <em>Skin<\/em> and <em>No Place Like Home<\/em>, in development<em>. <\/em>\u201cThere was no conversation \u2014 no version of, \u2018Can\u2019t we all develop in this area?\u2019\u201d Savage recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That lack of racial inclusivity within its leading cast would come back to haunt the show in a way, when the network\u2019s then head of scheduling used that as a reason not to air the show behind the then juggernaut <em>American Idol<\/em>. It\u2019s a move talked about at length in the oral history for how it sealed the series\u2019 fate in a highly competitive Thursday night time slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI did not want to put it on after <em>American Idol<\/em>,\u201d Preston Beckman, head of scheduling at Fox, told Sepinwall. \u201cThe number one argument was it was too white. If we looked at the audience makeup of <em>American Idol<\/em>, part of its success was a larger-than-average Black viewership. So I wanted to keep<em> The Bernie Mac Show<\/em> there.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Plans_for_a_Bisexual_Character_and_Kiss_Were_Thwarted_by_a_Super_Bowl_Controversy\"><\/span>\n        Plans for a Bisexual Character and Kiss Were Thwarted by a Super Bowl Controversy\u00a0  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    While those early changes to <em>The O.C.<\/em>\u2019s concept resulted in an all-white leading cast, the show did deliver one of TV\u2019s first nuanced and overtly Jewish characters, Seth Cohen (Brody), and later in the run, an LGBTQ storyline featuring a Marissa (played by Barton) casting runner-up: Olivia Wilde. Wilde\u2019s character, Alex, was initially approved by Fox for her storyline in which she dates Marissa, with writer-producer Allan Heinberg noting he was \u201csurprised at how open-minded they were in terms of allowing Marissa to have that experience without any judgment. And letting Julie Cooper [played by Melinda Clarke] speak for the viewers who might have those concerns.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But the network\u2019s affiliates had limits even as the network itself was pushing the show into telling more stories they deemed attention grabbing, according to Savage. \u201cThe marketing people wanted a story that they considered promotable \u2014 this titillating, sexy kiss. But then the affiliates were getting complaints that [their viewers] didn\u2019t like this story. And then the affiliates were getting back to the network saying, \u2018If this doesn\u2019t go away, we\u2019re not going to air your show anymore.\u2019 So Fox was really at war with itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With affiliates still pearl-clutching following the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake Super Bowl controversy \u2014 an event that landed Fox\u2019s then-president Gail Berman in front of Congress \u2014 the network cracked down on specific storylines across their lineup. \u201cI\u2019ll never forget when we were forced to cut their first kiss way back before it aired. And then we saw the promo that they ran for the kiss episode, and they hyped the kiss up so much in the promo. I\u2019m like, \u2018What are we doing? Why are they doing that? They just made us cut this thing down to like a tiny little smooch,\u2019\u201d Schwartz recalled. \u201cIt was very confusing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThat was a story that could\u2019ve had more and more complications and more twists and turns and ups and downs than it had the chance to do,\u201d Savage reflected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chris_Carmack_Got_a_Home_Makeover_for_a_Magazine_Story\"><\/span>\n        Chris Carmack Got a Home Makeover for a Magazine Story  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Welcome to The O.C.: The Oral History <\/em>doesn\u2019t shy from documenting the more complicated parts of the show\u2019s run on- and off-screen, but it\u2019s also careful to balance it with the right amount of humor. That includes a story from actor Chris Carmack during a \u201cwindow where I was working on network television and living in a run-down shack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The actor, whose character Luke Ward delivered one of the show\u2019s most iconic lines (\u201cWelcome to the O.C. bitch!\u201d), was living in a \u201chouse that probably should have been condemned, and had no business hosting living beings,\u201d when he received <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> that a magazine wanted to come to his house and take photos of where he lived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI thought, This is hilarious. Sure! Come show what squalor new actors are living in. This will be great,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd they showed up, were horrified, and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely went to Target and started staging the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    They didn\u2019t only upgrade his home for the shoot, but according to Carmack, \u201cused a picture in the magazine of a bathroom that was not even my bathroom,\u201d before (mis)representing that he lived \u201cby the ocean with ocean breezes in a charming California bungalow.\u201d What they failed to mention was that Carmack \u201chad plastic nailed to the ceiling, so that when it rained and the water came in the ceiling, it would shuffle over to the sink and go down the drain.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-secondary-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Director_Doug_Liman_Jumped_Off_the_Side_of_a_Boat_While_Filming_the_Pilot\"><\/span>\n        Director Doug Liman Jumped Off the Side of a Boat While Filming the<em> <\/em>Pilot  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Sepinwall\u2019s chapter dedicated entirely to the show\u2019s pilot is one the book\u2019s best, if only for its excruciating attention to detail about a process that went from good to bad to chaotic \u2014 to one of the best pilots in history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Part of that chaos was due to the director Doug Liman\u00a0of <em>Go<\/em>, <em>The Bourne Identity,<\/em> and <em>Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith<\/em> acclaim, whose attention was being pulled multiple ways during filming. Liman, who took over for <em>O.C.<\/em> executive producer McG when he had to back out of filming the pilot, was then facing the wrath of a studio and its executives following public comments he made about a major film he had directed. So he had turned his attention to TV and landed \u2014 thankfully \u2014 with <em>The O.C.<\/em> pilot in his hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But despite his feelings that his career in film was done, Doug found himself working on pre-production for 2005\u2019s <em>Mr.&amp; Mrs. Smith<\/em>. The result was a director with split attentions. Schwartz says every day producer Simon Kinberg visited set with Akiva Goldsman, the producer of <em>Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith<\/em>, for a meeting about the movie. For much of the time,<em> The O.C.<\/em> had Doug\u2019s attention, until one specific day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWe were shooting in the middle of the water, when Seth takes Ryan out on the Summer Breeze for the first time. We\u2019re all on a crew boat, attached to the Summer Breeze,\u201d Schwartz recalls.\u00a0\u201cDoug finds out that he is late for a <em>Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith<\/em> meeting, and all of a sudden he just jumps off of the boat at sea and swims to shore to go to the meeting. And is basically like, \u2018The actors know what they\u2019re doing, and the DP knows what he\u2019s doing, and you\u2019ve got this.\u2019 That was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Welcome to The O.C.: The Oral History<\/em> is out <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/welcome-to-the-oc-josh-schwartzstephanie-savagealan-sepinwall?variant=41038093385762\">in bookstores now<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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