On Dancing with the Stars experience: “Ugh, I had no idea it would be so bad. I got told off by my dancer. I was supposed to control the costumes, I was told that I could do the design aspect of it, that’s kind of the reason why I agreed to do it. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t collaborative like a choreographer on a film set. I was so confused by it. It was like The Hunger Games. It was all a popularity contest. It was awful. I was so glad to get kicked off.”
About the insta backlash she received after posting a pic wearing a bikini in a yatch with a caption mourning for a recent police shooting of a innocent black man: “I mean, yeah, it is what it is,” she says of the incident. I just know now to really try not to make emotional statements, which is the main thing. It tends to happen to everybody at some point.”
“What happened to Mischa Barton?” Journalists like me keep showing up, asking how she’s doing, whether Barton can ever reclaim her O.C.-level relevance. There’s a sense that Barton’s career will forever be Remember Marissa Cooper? Where did she go? How can we get her back?
“Fans won’t let Marissa Cooper go,” she says when I inevitably ask about it. “It’s so weird. I guess I understand. It was something they really cared about, but …” she trails off.
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