Rachel Bilson: From People Pleasing to Knowing Your Worth (FBF)
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What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy. Rachel Bilson, welcome to Call Her Daddy.
Thank you so much for having me.
I am a big fan of early 2000s TV shows. Oh boy. And not to freak you out, but I am the biggest OC fan. Maybe not ever, but like kind of ever. Are you serious? I still watch it to this day. You know those shows you go back and like re-watch a little? The OC always through and through to the core.
What was Rachel Bilson's experience like on The OC?
Love it.
That's so awesome.
So I'm happy to have you on today.
Thank you.
Very fun.
Thank you. I'm flattered.
For my problematic listeners, you know who you are. If you've never watched the OC, you have to watch it. To give them a little background, it's basically these rich kids living in Orange County, California. Drugs, sex, relationships, family drama, all the things. And you're doing a rewatch podcast. Yes. Yes. Which is amazing. Oh, thanks. What is it like going back to relive the OC phenomenon?
Oh, my God. So it's so interesting. I was 21 when I did the show and it was my first real big job watching it back. Honestly, the first few episodes, I had such an emotional reaction. I got like depressed. I was like, oh, my God, because it's like 20 years later, basically. Right. And I'm like, so much life has happened. What did I do? What did I do?
And when you say what did I do? Like, do you mean like in terms of like the show or just like just life, just life? Yeah. You're just like, whoa.
It's just more like you're basically playing back the last 20 years-ish of your life. And you're like, it's all just going through your mind as I'm watching this because I'm looking at this little pudgy face, 21-year-old with a lot of bronzer on and questionable clothing, which is coming back, which is also very confusing. But I'm watching it just going like, oh, shit. And my boyfriend at the time was on the show with me. And so it brings up all that about life behind the scenes.
when you're that young and you're on a show and you're dating someone on the show and you're like the it girl on the show everyone's obsessed with you but then you're saying like I'm looking back and like that was still me as a young woman like and I'm watching back so there's like emotions for you and then for sure yeah yeah and then everyone still wants to talk about it all the time to you which how does that feel
Well, you know what? I will say I wasn't like Misha Barton was obviously like the it girl and she was 16 years old. And I can't even imagine what that would have been like to be 16 with that kind of attention and every magazine cover. Like I still had a lot of anonymity in like my own life and my boyfriend and we were very domesticated and kind of like grandparents at the time. Like we were like old people, like newspaper in the morning, same breakfast every morning. Like it was really.
So you guys were like the couple on the show. Yeah. You know what?
I guess you're right. But Josh Schwartz, the creator, would always take, you know, things from your own life and incorporate it into the show. Like Golden Girls, huge Golden Girls fan. He put it in the show. We sing the theme song. So there was so much. You had to be careful around Schwartz, like what you said or did.
Because he's like, that's the next week's episode. Absolutely. What is like the most common question you're asked about your time working on The O.C. ?
I mean, a lot of it was just like, what was it like, you know, getting that much attention that quickly and working together and how was everyone on set? I know there's been like mixed things out there. Yeah. We had a great time. We had a lot of fun in general together. Personalities hanging out. But yeah, a lot of the things are like, how did it feel to have that much success that quickly?
It is kind of a. unfathomable feeling at that age like i know what i was doing at 21 it was not that i was drinking in college being a full degenerate having sex and making bad decisions with my life oh yeah oh i did that just earlier okay but still on a on like kind of a pedestal of people watching you and so i'm interested to know like when the oc became popular how did it affect you your family your friends
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