Mischa Barton - Mischa News and Appearances #20: Maxim cover. Thank you, God.

**Cristofle** · 12-16-2007, 06:18 PM

Mischa is currently in Belfast for the premiere of Closing The Ring; check out the Closing The Ring thread for full information and clips on her appearances. She should then take a break for Christmas and possibly head to Pittsburgh to begin filming The Homecoming (see the Screening Room).

Mischa is set to host the opening of the new club Cathouse on December 29th:

CELEBS FLEE TOWN FOR THE EVE

Mischa has nine movies in the works, as we all know: Virgin Territory, Closing the Ring, Don't Fade Away, St. Trinians, You and I, The Sophomore, Walled In, The Homecoming and Malice in Sunderland. See her IMDB for full details:

Mischa Barton

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Mischa just finished filming Walled In and is set to go film The Homecoming shortly.

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Exclusive: Morgan J. Freeman's Homecoming

On Friday, I reconnected with an old pal, director Morgan J. Freeman. I hadn't been in contact with Morgan for years, since he and actress Michelle Williams kindly consented to write for me when I was at Sony. Morgan's first big indie film, Hurricane Streets, won more awards at Sundance than any other film.

Now, the director is in Pittsburgh where he's in preproduction for a movie called Homecoming. It will star Mischa Barton and is co-written by Katie Fetting and Frank Hannah (who wrote the strange and fascinating The Cooler). Morgan told me that the movie is a scary thriller along the lines of Misery. In it, Mischa takes her ex boyfriend's new girlfriend hostage. But, according to Freeman, he'll ground the story in reality so that the movie "truly terrifies." Sounds like Mischa can truly stretch and show her chops as a bad girl in this one.

Filming begins on December 10th and runs through late January. Go Morgan! (I hope they get a day or so off for the holidays.)

Homecoming (2008)

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We have a still and an interview about her cameo in St. Trinians.

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Girl behaving badly in St Trinian's
Mischa Barton has quit the cool of The OC for jolly japes at St Trinian’s. We hear all about the joy of gymslips

Mischa Barton picks her way through the battered old school building in Henley that serves as the set for the return of the St Trinian’s franchise. This nostalgic realm of jolly hockey sticks and high school japery has been reimagined for the 21st century by Ealing Studios.

The film’s directors, Barnaby Thompson, who acquired the studios seven years ago, and Oliver Parker, who directed the first Ealing movie in almost 50 years with The Importance of Being Earnest in 2000, have been keen to bolster the star power with names including Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Russell Brand, Stephen Fry and Girls Aloud. Barton plays J. J. French, a former head girl who has moved to the US and prospered in the media world, before returning to St Trinian’s to help the girls in their bid to save the school. “The idea is that J. J. went into PR and became very sassy and quite ruthless,” she says. “She gives the girls some advice, and it turns into a bit of a treatise on pop culture as she decides to teach them all the tricks of her business.

“It is supposed to be rife with funny clichés. I don’t want to give too much away, but let’s just say that it hones in on the superficiality of the business, and all the silliness. I was considering playing one of the main characters in the film. But it didn’t work out and Barnaby wrote the cameo for me,” Barton says.

“I was originally talking to Barnaby about playing Annabelle, the lead girl, but then this is a very English film,” adds the 21-year-old actress.

“My family’s English, I have seen the films, and I thought that they meant a lot to a lot of people, so it just seemed more appropriate to come in and do a cameo role, rather than play an established British character that people really love.”

She may speak with an American accent, but Barton was born in the UK to an Irish mother and English father. She has fond memories of growing up in London, moving to New York with her parents and two sisters, Hania and Zoë, when she was six years old. Yesterday, she donned a St Trinian’s uniform for a photo-shoot and, she chuckles, it took her back to her childhood.

After breaking into theatre when she was 9 – co-starring in the off-Broadway production of Tony Kushner’s Slavs! – Barton is inured to the silliness and superficiality of show-business. And as soon as she was cast as the troubled belle Marissa Cooper in The OC, which ran from 2003 until this year, Barton became a pop-cul-ture icon and tabloid favourite.

“After we finished the first season of The OC I started running into paparazzi all over the place,” she laughs. “And I became popular with the tabloids, so I knew straight away that I’d need to make a few changes in my life.”

These involve keeping a lower profile when she and her friends venture out for the evening. “The media is so quick to pick up on things, so you can’t go around dancing on tables and drawing lots of attention to yourself. If you do anything, they will try and paint as you this wild party girl. That really isn’t me.”

Did she have a St Trinian’s-style schooling? “When I was at school I wasn’t out all the time. Maybe I wasn’t quite head girl material, but I worked hard. Because I was working as an actress, there was always that sense of a normal schooling being taken away from you. Since then I’ve always kept things very focused on my family and my career.”

That career has spanned more than half her life. She was offered modelling work when she was only 11 years old, shooting a campaign for Calvin Klein jeans, she made her film debut in Lawn Dogs (1997), and appeared in The Sixth Sense and Notting Hillin her early teens. It was The OC, however, that propelled her to stardom. Following her departure after the third season last year, the show’s ratings tumbled; it ran for only one more season.

“Of course I’m grateful to The OC,” she says. “It has opened up a lot for me. Ever since I did that first off-Broadway play I knew that acting is what I wanted to do with my life.”

She’s happy to deal with the media pressure. “You read about all these different guys that you are supposed to be dating, while really I’ve only had a couple of boyfriends in my entire life.”

Last year the gossip press tracked Barton’s romance with rocker Cisco Adler from the band Whitestarr. Before that she dated Brandon Davis, the oil heir and former MTV star. She will not be drawn on any current romances, but does admit that she is always “very careful”.

“I’m not one of those girls who likes bad boys who are going to treat them badly, and I’m also not sure about dating another actor. I can’t remember meeting any actor and thinking that I must get him to take an interest in me. I also have to spend far too long looking in the mirror, so it wouldn’t be a good idea to share my life with a man who has to care about his looks, too!”

Anyway, she says she has been too busy of late. She has recently finished filming the dramas You and I (Finding tATu), Don’t Fade Away, and the comedy Assassination of a High School President, in which she stars alongside Bruce Willis. Her next project, Malice in Sunderland, is, as the title suggests, set in the UK.

“It’s been great coming back to England,” she says. “I still have family here. My dad’s with me today on the St Trinian’s set and I’m sure people will like the new version.”

And she has a good idea what it is about the films that people like: “Looking at the older girls, they are really sexy,” she says smiling naughtily. “I was watching them strutting around, and we all know how boys feel about girls in school uniforms.”

Source: Girl behaving badly in St Trinian's - Times Online

Mischa is also set to possibly go to the Australian premiere for Closing The Ring in February:

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Pearson charms Attenborough

SYDNEY singer Amy Pearson has scored herself a leading movie role, singing the title track for Mischa Barton's new big budget film, Closing The Ring.

Director Richard Attenborough was so impressed by Pearson's take on the Chris Porter-penned tune - Lost Without Your Love - that he flew her to Belfast for the film's international premiere last week.

Initially the track was to simply appear on the film soundtrack, but Attenborough was so taken by Pearson's voice that he recalled prints of the film at the last minute to add the track to it.

Attenborough personally invited Pearson to perform the song at the film's premiere, which was also attended by fellow cast members Shirley MacLaine and Neve Campbell.

Barton is likely to walk the red carpet in Sydney for the film's premiere in February, where Pearson should also perform the song.
Pearson was discovered in her home town of Birmingham in the UK by Sony BMG Australia's artist and repertoire director, Jay Dee Springbett, and has spent the past few years working on her debut album.

The song will feature as a bonus track on Pearson's album when it is released next April.

And it will no doubt increase Pearson's chances of having the album released in the UK.

Source: Pearson charms Attenborough | The Daily Telegraph

A new Virgin Territory trailer can be found here Unfortunately, still no trailer.

Mischa's "The Sophomore" is set to be featured at Sundance in January; hopefully she can attend.

Finally, Mischa is set to begin filming Malice in Sunderland in April.

In particularly exciting news, Mischa is on the cover of the new Maxim; full scans will be up when the magazine hits stands this Tuesday, but for now here's what we've got:

January Issue Preview: Mischa Barton
Loaded with an arsenal of hot roles, The O.C.’s original bad girl is about to take over Hollywood. Again.

You’ve got three big movies coming out this year. Are you excited to be back in the limelight, or is it daunting?
I’m happy that I’ve been working constantly since The O.C., and that my career has been going the way I want it. As an actor, all I wanted was creative freedom—to be able to pick and choose movies. I couldn’t be happier.

Is it true you were discovered when you performed a monologue about turtles at summer camp?
That’s how it happened. I remember going to camp with my older sister, who completely ditched me because she was 16 and I was eight and I was uncool to have around. I ended up doing all these monologues, and it paid off, because some agent came up to my mom and said I should try acting.

FOR MORE OF HER INTERVIEW AND HOT PHOTOS, CHECK OUT THE JANUARY ISSUE OF MAXIM ON NEWSSTANDS DECEMBER 18!

Source: January Issue Preview: Mischa Barton Girls of Maxim Photo Gallery : Hot Girls, Babes, Hot Women, Celebrities, Hotties, Chicks, Swimsuits

Mischa Barton Gets in Touch with Her Tamer Side

Mischa Barton is best known for playing bad-girl Marissa from The O.C.. But it's been easy to move on from that character, she says – they were never much alike anyway.

"Even if I was a precocious teenager, it's a New York vs. L.A. thing. I never experienced the 'anything goes' chaos we sold on The O.C.," the 21-year-old actress says in an interview with January's Maxim.

"Marissa was a nut case. I didn't have much in common with her. In New York I'd want to go out at 15 or 16, but I got it out of my system."

Was it hard to let Marissa go? "Not at all," Barton says. In fact, she helped orchestrate her gruesome send-off in a car wreck. "You have no idea how much fun I had doing that [scene]. I was on the set, yelling, "More blood! More blood!" ... She needed to go out with a bang."

Barton has since moved on to movies, including parts in three upcoming films: St. Trinian's, Virgin Territory, and Closing the Ring. And while she is clearly a candidate for sultry roles, she's ambivalent about nude scenes.

"I don't mind nudity. I just don't do it that often," she says. "It depends on the film and if I trust the director and if the context is emotional or just sexual."

In any case, it seems she needn't worry about being typecast as a bad girl – she's reportedly been linked to the title role in none other than Supergirl. "It would be pretty awesome," she admits. "But everybody in Hollywood goes up for those films. I haven't been offered anything."

Source: Mischa Barton Gets in Touch with Her Tamer Side - Mischa Barton : People.com

More shots of the Maxim shoot can be found here:

Mischa-B.com Gallery - Maxim (US)

Nice interview Mischa just did in Belfast:

In Bed With Mischa Barton

Hollywood starlet Mischa Barton last night laughed off rumours that she had enjoyed a romance with Ulster's Jamie Dornan.

The beautiful actress, who was in Belfast for the world premiere of Closing The Ring, said she and the Co Down Calvin Klein model were "good friends " but denied the pair had ever dated.

She also described her departure from the hit US series The OC as a " blessing in disguise" and said it had given her time to reassess her life and her career.

Mischa was speaking to the Belfast Telegraph in the Merchant Hotel, where she was staying this week with her Irish mother Nuala.

The 21-year-old plays one of the main leads in Lord Attenborough's Closing The Ring - a young American woman with whom three airmen are in love.

"Richard (Attenborough) came over to see me and we met in the Beverely Hills Hotel, where we really just clicked," she said.

"He told me that Shirely MacLaine had approved me to play her younger self in the movie and I was delighted to get the chance to work with Richard. He's such a fantastic director, with so much wisdom, and a real gentleman too.

"It was also the first film role I'd been offered after the OC, so I was keen to do it. I really liked the script too, it's very sweet and very emotional. I still cry when I watch it."

Mischa - whose grandfather hailed from Newry - also revealed that she had no problems doing the love scene in the movie, but admitted that hunky co-star Stephen Amell was more embarrassed than she was.

"I've no problems with love or sex scenes," she said.

"I was in the OC for three years and had a different boyfriend every week in the show.

"I'm very good at detaching myself from sex scenes. In the movie my character has to take the initiative. I think I felt a lot more comfortable than Stephen did."

Mischa, who was born in England but moved to the US at the age of four, said she had been to Belfast before but didn't know the city well.

"My family is more from down south, Roscommon and Galway, but we have connections with Sion Mills and my grandfather was from Newry," she said.

And she told of a strange coincidence involving her parents, Nuala and Paul, and Closing The Ring director Lord Attenborough.

"I never came to Belfast to film my scenes for the movie, but while the film was being shot there my parents happened to be visiting," she said.

"They were in the lobby of their hotel when they bumped into Richard. It's such a small world."

The actress, who starred in James Blunt's video Goodbye My Lover, was coy about her private life, but laughed when asked if she'd ever had three suitors at the one time.

"Not that I can think of," she said.

"Anyway, I never talk about my private life."

Mischa, wearing a Mathew Williamson dress flown in by the designer himself, was relaxed and chatty following the Waterfront Hall premiere.

"I had a great night but I'm really looking forward to a break now," she said.

"I've done four movies in a row and I can't wait to get home for Christmas."

In bed with Mischa - News - Film & TV - Entertainment - Belfast Telegraph

More shots of this interview can be found here:

Mischa-B.com Gallery - Belfast Merchant Hotel Shoot

Finally, Mischa is on the cover of the Aussie magazine Shop Til You Drop for the fifth time:

Carry on!

maalibu · 12-16-2007, 06:32 PM

Mischa Barton Interview for Belfast Tonight, 14/12/07

YouTube - Mischa Barton Interview

**Sam_MC** · 12-16-2007, 06:35 PM

Thanks Liz and Marie

*goes to listen to interview*

True Daisy lover · 12-16-2007, 06:38 PM

I enjoy the interview. Gah she is so sweet

maalibu · 12-16-2007, 06:41 PM

M-Barton has posted scans from Maxim. She talks a little bit about her role in Homecoming

M-Barton.org Pictures -- Your Source for Mischa Barton Pictures

**Sam_MC** · 12-16-2007, 06:42 PM

Awesome interview

ETA: Wicked! Thanks again Marie!

**Sam_MC** · 12-16-2007, 06:47 PM

OMG THAT INTERVIEW IS THE BEST THING EVER.

Talk about knowing what audience is going to read it! She's workin' it. YOWZA.

**Cristofle** · 12-16-2007, 06:50 PM

So that answers the question of the hair color- her Homecoming character is supposed to be a trashy blonde. She sounds really excited about that role.

I like that she didn't allow herself to get led into making fun of her fans; the Maxim interviewer was pretty harsh about The OC, Marissa, and OC fans. She maintained that the fans were the best part of The OC.

**Sam_MC** · 12-16-2007, 06:52 PM

Her casual nekkid talk lol! LOL.

I love her.

**Cristofle** · 12-16-2007, 06:54 PM

She makes it clear she's playing Shelby as totally psycho, lol. She seems to be really excited about that.

**Sam_MC** · 12-16-2007, 07:02 PM

I'm really glad to hear it from her own mouth

Meanwhile, I picked up Shop Til You Drop. Yeah. 1 fricken page lol.

**Cristofle** · 12-16-2007, 07:09 PM

LMAO. I'm glad they like Mischa so much, but I wish they'd do a bit more with her, lol.

**Sam_MC** · 12-16-2007, 07:14 PM

The whole magazine is a bunch of ads thrown together lol. I don't get the purpose of it. But a cover is a cover, I shall not complain.

Time for Aussie Vogue.

**Cristofle** · 12-16-2007, 07:16 PM

WORD. Australian Vogue does the BEST photoshoots, the BEST.

Or she could do Aussie FHM again, and they could have another run of calling Ryan trailer park trash!

**Sam_MC** · 12-16-2007, 07:23 PM

LMAO. That was gold.

This randomly remains one of my favourite shots. She looks so naturally hotter than the every other person on the planet. Nobody can claim photoshop etc. etc.