O.C. writers admit they made Seth a stoner to cover for how horribly bored Adam Brody was

Adam Brody

In one of the most grimly hilarious admissions we’ve ever seen crop up in an oral history of a once-beloved TV drama, the writers of The O.C. have now admitted that they made Adam Brody’s character Seth Cohen a stoner in the show’s later seasons in order to cover up for how phenomenally bored Brody had become of starring in The O.C.. “At least if we can write that he’s stoned, then we’re not trying to write around it,” series creator Josh Schwartz says in a new book about the show, quoted in TooFab this week. “That’s where ‘Kaitlin gets Seth hooked on pot’ took root.”

Said admission comes courtesy of Alan Sepinwall’s new Welcome To The O.C.: An Oral History, which tracks the rise, and then what Adam Brody would now probably politely refer to as the decline, of the Fox hit. He was, by his own admission, a little more blunt about his lack of enthusiasm for the series past its first season at the time, saying in the history that “I think I very much let my distaste for the later episodes be known. I didn’t mask that at all, and I’m sure I openly mocked it a bit. So I’m not proud of that.” (Brody does state that “I was polite to everyone. I liked the directors, and the crew and I got on really well and I didn’t keep people waiting”… but also cops to refusing to read scripts for any scenes he wasn’t personally in, calling the behavior unprofessional.)

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