California, right here she comes.
Rachel Bilson, 42, reprised her position as “The O.C.’s” Summer time Roberts in a fresh tequila advert.
The advert – which additionally reunited her with the display’s creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, as they created it via their manufacturing corporate Pretend Empire – options the enduring theme tune “California.”
Bilson told Variety in an interview published Wednesday that she were given concerned as a result of, “Josh told me about it. I have to start by saying anything that Josh and Stephanie do, I’m always like, ‘Yeah.’ They say, ‘Jump.’ I say, ‘How high?’… When they said we’re going to bring Summer back and they were writing it, of course I’m going to do it because how fun does that sound? Tequila and Summer, come on! She’s obviously drinking her tequila because no Orange County housewife can survive without it.”
When the opening requested Bilson if summer time is a “Real Housewife of Orange County,” the actress stated, “I feel like she should be.”
“The O.C.” aired on Fox from 2003 to 2007. Starring Bilson, her then-boyfriend Adam Brody, Ben McKenzie and Mischa Barton – whose personality, Marissa, used to be controversially killed off – the display adopted teenagers in a seaside family.
Within the tequila advert, nearest introducing the drink, Bilson opens a door to show anyone who resembles Ryan (McKenzie), even supposing McKenzie doesn’t component within the advert.
When Bilson asks who he’s, the person responds with Ryan’s order from the pilot:
“Whoever you want me to be,” as he delivers tequila.
There’s additionally a girl who resembles Marissa (Barton) throwing a garden chair right into a puddle, and Summer time says her widespread word, “ew!”
“I’m just going to say this for the fans — she’s definitely still married to Seth. They have kids. Let’s paint that picture,” Bilson instructed the opening.
“She’s living her best life. Summer, I feel like she really bloomed over the four years of the show and she just continued that way.”
Within the 2023 reserve, “Welcome to the OC: The Oral History,” Schwartz admits that he regrets killing off Marissa.
Casting director Patrick Quicken additionally confessed that Brody’s first audition used to be “obnoxious” and “disrespectful” of the fabric, and Schwartz additionally commented that his audition “sucked.”
Bilson instructed Selection that she’d be observable to a reunion.
“I would always be up for it. But it’s also this thing that people still watch and are still discovering. So do you just leave that special moment as it is? You weigh both sides because obviously it would be fun and I love everybody and it would be awesome to go back and we need to somehow bring Marissa back to life and do the whole thing if we do it,” she stated.
“But also leaving it for what it was and how special it kind of was, is also a positive.”
