In the 2023 bookWelcome to the O.C.
Ben McKenzie eventually scored the role.
Look, I was going out forThe O.C., like a teenage melodrama, he said.
Chris Pine.Marleen Moise/WireImage
I can understand why they wanted to have pretty people doing pretty things.
And bad acne is not a key to [success].
In response, host Josh Horowitz teased, Its a shame.
If you had gone onThe O.C., your career might have worked out.
“Its no fun having bad skin,” he said.
“It’s no fun going to auditions when you have bad skin.
It was one of the most traumatic points of my life, but it is my story.”
He continued, “It’s so strange.
