{"id":882254,"date":"2026-09-06T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882254\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:18:13","slug":"ben-mckenzie-open-to-the-oc-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882254\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben McKenzie Open To &#8220;The OC&#8221; Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ben-mckenzie-open-to-the-oc-revival.jpg\" data-caption=\"FOX. Courtesy of Alamy.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ben-mckenzie-open-to-the-oc-revival.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ben-mckenzie-open-to-the-oc-revival\"\/><\/a>FOX. Courtesy of Alamy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGotham\u201d and \u201cSouthland\u201d actor Ben McKenzie says he\u2019s open to a reboot of the show that made him famous \u2013 \u201cThe OC\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie played Ryan Atwood, a troubled teen taken in by wealthy Newport Beach public defender Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher) and his wife (Kelly Rowan).<\/p>\n<p>The actor, currently 47 years old, was 24 when he first starred in the series and the oldest of the cast at the time.  Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, and Rachel Bilson co-starred.<\/p>\n<p>Doing an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dc0hXoxx42H\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney radio station KIIS 1065<\/a>, McKenzie was asked about the possibility and responded:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that there has ever been serious talks, but I\u2019d be up for it\u2026 Yeah, I think so, under the right circumstances. It was a great show. We had a great time. I learned a lot. I was so young, we were all young.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said he showed the show\u2019s pilot to his 10-year-old daughter and immediately regretted it: \u201cI forgot that in the pilot, there is binge drinking, cigarette smoking, cocaine, and a threesome. Of course, my 10-year-old loved it and wanted to watch more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds he gets teenagers, who weren\u2019t even alive when the show came out, coming up to him to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOX. Courtesy of Alamy. \u201cGotham\u201d and \u201cSouthland\u201d actor Ben McKenzie says he\u2019s open to a reboot of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-882254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}