Mischa Barton is best known for playing bad-girl Marissa from The O.C.. But it’s been easy to move on from that character, she says – they were never much alike anyway.
“Even if I was a precocious teenager, it’s a New York vs. L.A. thing. I never experienced the ‘anything goes’ chaos we sold on The O.C.,” the 21-year-old actress says in an interview with January’s Maxim.
“Marissa was a nut case. I didn’t have much in common with her. In New York I’d want to go out at 15 or 16, but I got it out of my system.”
Barton has since moved on to movies, including parts in three upcoming films: St. Trinian’s, Virgin Territory, and Closing the Ring. And while she is clearly a candidate for sultry roles, she’s ambivalent about nude scenes.
“I don’t mind nudity. I just don’t do it that often,” she says. “It depends on the film and if I trust the director and if the context is emotional or just sexual.”
In any case, it seems she needn’t worry about being typecast as a bad girl – she’s reportedly been linked to the title role in none other than Supergirl. “It would be pretty awesome,” she admits. “But everybody in Hollywood goes up for those films. I haven’t been offered anything.”
Virgin Territory is a 2007 romantic comedy film based upon Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. It has also been known under the working titles “The Decameron,” “Angels and Virgins”, “Guilty Pleasures” and “Chasing Temptation”.
The film is set in Italy during the Black Death. A group of young Florentines are in the countryside as they wait for the plague to end in the city. In order to pass the time, they tell one another a series of stories about love and adventure. Rated R for sexual content, nudity and some language.
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