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Mischa Barton seemed like an entitled brat to me when I saw her on The View last month. She acted haughty and downplayed her breakdown, blaming it on her schedule and the painkillers she was taking after the removal of her wisdom teeth. I guess you would expect her to make it seem like her involuntary mental hospitalization wasn’t a big deal, but she also made some snotty statements about the other people in the psych ward, saying “you realize I’m nothing like these people. I have a career, I worked so hard for it.”
Mischa’s career isn’t much to speak of lately. Her CW show “The Beautiful Life” was abruptly canceled after just two episodes aired, which one of her co-stars attributed to lack of promotion by the network. I saw the first episode and the show was a disjointed mess. The plot was all over the place, there were too many characters and Mischa seemed like a parody of herself. What’s more is that a lot of critics attributed the show’s failure to raccoon-eyed Mischa’s inability to carry a series. I think that may have been a small part of it, but that there was much more at play.
It doesn’t matter to Mischa, who seems to think that TV is beneath her. She told People Magazine that she doesn’t think TV is for her and that she’s getting offers for roles but they’re not good enough. She wants to “go fight for interesting things.”
Demonstrating that she’d regained her model figure with a Versace gown at the Whitney Museum Gala, Barton, 23, said she doesn’t mind not working for the small screen anymore.
“I think I need to back away from the whole TV approach,” she said. “That whole world of network television, probably isn’t, for me, a good idea now. I need to start reading for more serious roles.”
But she’s not sure exactly what the next project will be.
“It’s too early to tell yet,” she said. “I’m passing on all the [early] offers, because that’s not the stuff you want to do. I want to go fight for interesting things and look for something that’s going to be interesting for me … as a role.”
For now, her focus is on her body – she said she regularly works out with girlfriends – and on embracing life in Gotham.
“Reading scripts and enjoying living in New York,” she said, calling her break from work “lovely.” “Now that I’m not doing the TV show, I’ve got lots of time to work out.”
[From People]
You know, I really was rooting for Mischa after she had her breakdown. I loved her on The OC and was hoping that things would work out for her and that she would move on to better things. Mischa just sounds like such a snob though. According to IMDB she’s done a bunch of movies but I know I haven’t heard of any of them. Maybe she’s overcompensating because she feels insecure that she doesn’t have something lined up right away, but she doesn’t need to act like that. It’s her voice, too. I just hear her nasally voice in my head saying these quotes and think “give me a break.” Maybe I’m misinterpreting her, though, and she’s not that bad.
On a positive note, Mischa looks really pretty here and she didn’t overdo the makeup.
Mischa Barton is shown on 10/19/09 at the Whitney Museum Gala. Credit: Andres Otero/ WENN.com
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25 Responses to “Mischa Barton: TV isn’t for me, I need to fight for better roles”
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Not bloody likely!
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What a stupid dress.
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She needs to get over herself. She was a lot more popular when she left the OC and that didn’t help with her movie career. I think most of Mischa’s films are independents and straight to dvd.
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In order to fight for better roles, she needs actual acting ability. And maybe stick a pin in that gargantuan ego of hers.
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Somebody help me out here. I assumed that she was basically famous for her role on The OC. Is there something I’m missing about her? Why does she seem to get more attention (and chances) than other mediocre actresses her age? Seriously, I’m not being snarky. I’m actually curious.
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meh, she’s a mediocre actress, that’s why she’s not getting the roles she wants.
I think she IS best suited to TV, or at least to roles like the one she had in “The Sixth Sense”…you know, where she doesn’t talk (much).
her hair looks great here, though.
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I didn’t even think she was that great on the O.C. Does anyone agree with me?
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Isn’t she kind of a nobody? I mean, she’s really only had one notable role ever. The notion that she should be “fighting” for better roles is laughable. She should be thankful people are even talking about her and have knowledge of her name. She really just needs to worry about getting A role right now, nevermind a “better” one.
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Praise St. Angie!:
That was her in the Sixth Sense? Wow, I didn’t realize that was her.
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yup, she was the girl who was poisoned by her mom.
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Or check her out in NOTTING HILL as a snotty child fim actress.
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She’s got the stink of desperation about her. It’s not helping.
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ROFLMAO I really needed a good old fashioned coffee snorting out the nose giggle today. Thanks Mischa my screen and sinus are now clean.
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Praise St. Angie!: Thank you for pointing that out to me. I never knew.
Neelyo: I’ll have to rent Notting Hill. Thanks! : - )
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is it me or is her face starting to look plastic-like - kinda like she’s almost middle aged but trying to look young?
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Seriously, Celebitchy - and I’m not being sarcastic here, I’m just wondering - you LOVED her on the OC?! I thought she was the WORST thing about the OC - her acting is so wooden it’s just embarrassing. I know the OC was supposed to be soapy and all, but I just could not get past her wooden reading of lines. It was like they picked someone off the street to read cue cards. Awful! To each his own, though, I guess - maybe she got better as the series matured. I quit watching about 2 episodes in.
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So she’s turning down jobs while looking for an ‘interesting’ role? Oh great, in about a year we’re going to have to listen to her whine about how no one in Hollywood will give her a job.
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Perhaps Mischa should try being humble for a change … at least the karma would be better.
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I thought she was a disaster on “Beautiful Life.” IMO, she brought that show down. Her role on it wasn’t even that big.
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I think Mischa has an ego problem because she was a child actress who was fairly in demand. She appeared in some good movies and then starred in a drama series. I think it’s difficult for her to reign in that ego now that the jobs she is being offered are not up to her standards. She’s going to have to lower those standards if she wants to work at all.
Also, if producers think she still has a drug problem, her prospects are pretty bleak for movie roles. TV might be her only option.
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Personally I think this chick photographs really weird sometimes. Sometimes she looks really puffy and in other photos, she looks like she did like 5 years ago before she was abusing substance(s). I haven’t really given much weight or thought to any of her comments simply because she lacks substance but if these recent statements are true, then Ms. Mischa is either really over reaching or it is bravado covering up that many people don’t take her seriously (including me, Sorry Mischa)
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wtf Mischa?
First, of all don’t blame TV for your bad acting. Just because you can commit to a BJ doesn’t mean you can commit to playing a character.
Second, you’re just a really bad actress.
Get over it.
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She should be fighting for sobriety, not film roles.
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I’ve always thought she’d be a better model than she is an actress. I saw her in some editorial shoots a few years ago and she was pretty decent.
She’s looking better here than she has in the past, any rate.
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