Mischa Barton - Mischa News and Appearances #43 - Page 14

**stlavin95** · 10-24-2019, 05:33 PM

They sure do

**Cristofle** · 10-25-2019, 07:44 PM

Interesting - we talked about this, but here Josh is indicating he didn't want to end Marissa/Alex so quickly but he was told to by the network.

https://nypost.com/2019/10/10/lookin...-on-teen-love/

Quote:

“Things have evolved in terms of what you’re allowed to portray,” he says. “We had a storyline on ‘The O.C.’ where Marissa [Mischa Barton] was exploring her sexuality with Olivia Wilde’s character, and it was controversial. Some people at the network were uncomfortable with it. We had to accelerate the storytelling in a way that we hadn’t planned. Now, you’re able to tell stories that may have been off-limits before, or under the heading of ‘a very special episode’ in ways that now feel like they don’t need to be singled out.”