Before there was Ryan and Taylor, there was Ryan and Marissa. Benjamin McKenzie’s character, Ryan Atwood, began cozying up to Autumn Reeser’s Taylor Townsend after his last love, Marissa Cooper, played by Mischa Barton, was bumped off by producers in the Season 3 finale, per MTV. So, perhaps it’s not a coincidence that Reeser and Barton don’t keep in touch.
Us Weekly caught up with Reeser in 2019, and she gave the ultimate snub by professing to have no knowledge of her former costar’s recent high-profile signing to “The Hills” MTV revival. “She’s on ‘The Hills’? Isn’t it a reality show?” Reeser sniffed. The actor claimed she didn’t watch TV or pay attention to entertainment news. Still, she said that Barton’s new role sounded “exciting.” Not surprisingly, Reeser confessed to Us Weekly that she no longers speaks to Barton. However, she remains close to other cast members. “I see people every now and then at different things,” Reeser said. “Ben and Rachel [Bilson] and a bunch of us met up at the “OC Musical” at the Montalban.”
“It’s hard to think about Marissa Cooper, the girl next door with sad-doe eyes and spectacular hair, without sobbing your eyes out,” MTV wrote about Barton’s shock departure. They shared that the producers’ decision to kill off her character had proved hugely divisive among fans, to say the least. However, it didn’t appear to bother her fellow cast members quite so much, though.
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