Mind blowing facts you didn't know about The O.C
In the very last episode where Taylor meets Summer in the arrival room, there's man with a sign saying "Schwartz". That's a reference to writer Josh Schwartz. Arcade Fire refused to appear on The OC because they didn't want to licence any music. When Seth learns that Lindsay is his half-aunt, he says "You're a Cohen.
Welcome to a world of insecurity and paralysing self-doubt" … He also used this line when he welcomes Ryan into the family in The Debut. In the episode The Rainy Day Women , Sandy asks Rebecca whether she wants "ding dongs or cheese sticks" when they're stranded in a cheap motel. Ryan offers Marisa the exact same options in The Escape , when they're also stranded at a cheap motel.
Writers were initially going to make Seth part of the popular crew.
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But they changed their minds and decided to make him the outcast. When Kaitlin Cooper leaves in season 1 to head off to boarding school, she is years-old.
When she returns in season 3, she is So she aged four years in 18 months. Shailene Woodley plays younger Kaitlin! She is only 5 months younger than Willa Holland, who ended up playing the older Kaitlin. The waiter in the pilot episode and "The Best Chrismukkah Ever" is also the same guy who lives in the Cohen's house in the last episode. Can you imagine Ryan being played by anyone else?
Garrett Hedlund almost got the role. This is Garrett Hedlund:.
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Writers thought Wilde was too strong to play the emotional wreck of Marisa, so they brought her back as Alex. Must run in the family…. In the alternate universe episode, a poster in the shopping mall says Johnny Harper is the "Pacwest Surf Star". Johnny was Marisa's friend who was run over because of Ryan, and therefore couldn't compete in the surf tour. Ryan didn't exist in the alternative world though, so Johnny was never run over, and thus the surf star.
When the show was first written, Ryan was originally going to be Sandy's illegitimate child.
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Skip to main content. Here's a ton of facts about The OC you probably never knew. These are the best behind-the-scenes stories we've ever heard about The OC.
Rachel Bilson was only supposed to appear as a guest on the show. The actor, who played Summer Roberts in all four seasons of the hit show, celebrated the milestone by sharing a photo of the cast on Instagram. Rachel Bilson posted this photo on Instagram. Just a few weeks ago Bilson opened up to People magazine about her time on the show which ran from to Bilson also praised one of her former O. Adam Brody initially blew it: Is this even from our show?
I kind of hated that guy. Brody and Bilson ended up dating in real life. The actors had to walk on their knees when they filmed a pool scene. In the show, Seth Cohen was an avid sailor but in real life, actor Adam Brody hated boats. So when the script required Seth to get on a boat once more in a later season, they got a year-old stunt double to wear a wig and film the scene instead of Brody. Ben McKenzie, who played Ryan Atwood, was almost seriously injured during a fight scene when he fell through a glass window.