In the final of the season 3 of Teenage soap in Primetime OK - broadcast on 18.05.2006 - Viewers were absolutely shocked when Misha Burton's leading character, Marissa Cooper, died in a fire accident. As part of the narrative, Marissa's ex -boyfriend, Kevin Walhock (Kam Gigante), leads his car off the road, while she is driving with her again, again, Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie), and Marissa dies in the hands of Ryan. Burton, who actually spoiled the twist shortly before the episode aired, remained quiet for her reasons to leave the series behind, but in an exclusive interview with And! News In 2021, Burton finally talked about why she left.

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"It's a little complicated," Burton said, answering a question about when talks began for her departure. "It started pretty early because it had a lot to do with them adding Rachel (Bilson, who played by Marissa Summer Roberts' best friend) in the last minute, as, after the first season, a series of regular and evening out of salaries at all - and a kind of general abuse by some of the men who set that kind of that. "But you know, I also loved the show and I had to build my own walls and ways to try, to deal with it and the fame that was drawn specifically to me." She added that when all this added to the "amount of invasion" she experienced in her personal life as a result of her elevated fame, she "feels very unprotected." It's more than a reasonable explanation of what you want to leave.

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Burton continued, making it clear that producers said no have To kill Marisa:

"This was said before, but they gave me an option. The manufacturers were like, 'Well, do you want your work and sail to the sunset and you can potentially return to the future in a bizarre TV scenario or we can kill your character and be able to continue your career you want and what you want to do? At that time I got offers from big films and I had to dismiss them. TheSixth sense 'and any of those things. My dream was to be offered to me in the lead roles, so it happened. It just felt like it was the best thing for me and my health and only in terms of not feeling protected by my team and crew at that moment. "

According to Misha Burton, things began to decay the seams during the second season of the show. "So, halfway through the season 2 I would say, when we started doubling the episodes and shooting so much harder, and again a lot of it was too much for me," Burton said, which is a good point; OK was running for more than 20 episodes per season. "I didn't know where the character was going. I see it nice, but there are things that I think people were wrong and the way they handled it. So, I just didn't feel I could continue."

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However, Burton has been an actor for a long time - as he mentioned, she appeared in the "sixth sense" as a child - so she was clear about the fact that she was not afraid of hard work. "No one wants his job more than me," Burton clarified. "For me, acting is a passion and something I really love, and that was something I enjoy, but I can always see things about what they are in business." Burton explained that she was educated with a strong understanding of the industry and that her parents were great when they introduced her to the possible traps. "Honestly, 15 years of (at that time), I think it's sad that there was no better way to deal with."

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Not only that, but Burton actually provided a positive look at the end, and she's right: Marissa got a huge, dramatic, over-the-top death that is, if nothing else, extremely memorable. "But I also really want that she had this epic death and that it ended, because she's unforgettable and not just another flash in the pan," Burton got angry. "People are still coming to me to this day and they are like," I remember where I was when your character died! "And they are still emotional about it, as I really were. After all, OK gave up after season 4, so perhaps the lesson to be learned here was "don't kill the main character".

Misha Burton made it clear to her out of OC, but in 2023, the creators of the Shos Schwarz and Stephanie Savage talked Vanity fair for the 20th anniversary of the series and said a little Different story. As Savage said, the producers told the show's creative team that they had to do something huge in the final of the season 3 so that Season 4 could happen.

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"We were under huge pressure to do something with that level of drama," Savage said. "Killing the series regularly descended from above. If we wanted the four season, we will have to do something like this."

According to Schwartz, they are actually sorry for killing her. "Looking back on it, we wish we could come up with a different solution," he admitted. "At that time we did not see an alternative path, so we went down that path. But apparently in retrospect, there were many other ways we could write the character from the show - and gave Misha the break that needed and wanted - which would still allow that character to come back." Not only that, but Schwartz said that the outbreak of fans was particularly rough: "And when we saw the reaction after Marissa died of that audience, it didn't feel good. It didn't feel like the audience was serving or respecting the way we always wanted and we were aimed."

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10 years before thatSchwartz said Daily Astver - As he celebrated a decade of the show - that Burton's exit was a complex question. When asked why he killed Marisa, Schwarz said:

"It is a complicated, multilayer question. It had just as much to do with the creative feeling like this was always in the cards for this character and it was inherently tragic heroine, and part of the story of Ryan/Marissa was trying to save her from the fate of which he could not be saved, and part of it had to do so. frustration.

To be fair to Schwarz, Burton still didn't talk about her exit, so maybe he was trying to be respected; In any case, it certainly does not seem that everyone involved in Marissa Cooper's death was on the same page, except for the fact that everyone wants to diminish differently. Also OK gave up after season 4So there was no real happy ending here.

OK is now moving to Julu.