Author: Evan Real / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The Hills and The O.C. are crossing over.
MTV announced on Wednesday that actress Mischa Barton has joined the cast of the Hills reboot. Barton will share the screen with original stars Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Audrina Patridge, Jason Wahler, Frankie Delgado, Justin Bobby Brescia, Stephanie Pratt, Brody Jenner and Whitney Port.
Barton’s casting comes after speculation that MTV had plans to welcome new faces to the cast of the beloved reality series. Barton rose to fame thanks to her lead role as Marissa Cooper on Fox’s The O.C., which premiered in 2003. Incidentally, the teen drama served as inspiration for MTV’s pioneering reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which debuted in 2004, and ultimately became the launching pad for The Hills, which aired for six seasons from 2006 to 2010.
Though Barton has signed on to the reboot, titled The Hills: New Beginnings, she has previously said that she would “probably not” want to reunite with her O.C. castmates ever again.
“It’s something I came so close to not doing,” she told the U.K.’s Metro in 2014. “I had a really great thing with film. People say be grateful for what you have, but it [is] certainly not the kind of thing I was expecting it to be …I’ve kind of seen it all.”
Aside from playing Cooper from 2003 until the character’s death in the 2006 season three finale,…
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