The OC trio Mischa Barton, Melinda Clarke and Tate Donovan rolled back the years at a fan convention this week.
Having portrayed Marissa Cooper, while Clarke and Donovan starred as her parents, Julie and Jimmy, in the teen drama, this was a reunion to saviour. They also brushed shoulders with Gossip Girl stars Chace Crawford and Jessica Szohr.
Check out a sneak-peek from Barton's Instagram below.
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Over in The OC universe, her character Marissa was tragically killed off in a fiery twist, which the actress addressed in the summer of 2021.
"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 shitty.
"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."
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Elaborating on this sense of vulnerability, the actress continued: "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.
"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."
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