Turns Out Volchok Hates Ryan and Marissa I.R.L.

In the finest role of his career to date, Cam Gigandet played surfing, drag racing and inadvertent Marissa-killing bad boy Kevin Volchok in the later seasons of The O.C. In a recent interview with Elle, the actor reflected on his time on the show, and it turns out that he sorta kinda hates a lot of his former cast mates.

When asked if he stayed in touch with anyone from the show, Gigandet said no. “Actually, Ben McKenzie was kind of mean to me,” he said, of the handsome, soulful Ryan Atwood. “I hadn’t done anything at that point and he was a little bit of an ass. But I love him. I think he’s a great actor and I love Southland.”  
As for Mischa Barton, who played popular girl-turned-teen alcoholic and compulsive shoplifter Marissa Cooper, he was even less kind. “Mischa?” he said. “I didn’t really…Was she there? I don’t even have memories of her.”

On the whole, he said, he remembers the cast as being pretty dreadful people. “I learned a lot,” he said. “But the things that I remember now—none of them are good. It was only the third or fourth season. Those kids were fucking miserable. They were just—they would not remember their lines on purpose. They were young. That said, I don’t talk to anyone I’ve ever worked with.”

Burn.

Still, without Volchock driving a wedge between Marissa and Summer, The O.C. would never have aired this, aka the greatest argument in the history of television:

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