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Rachel Bilson has captured just how crazy life was during the height of her fame in the 2000s thanks to her hit drama The OC and how the Olsen twins effectively “rescued” her when she was in a tight spot.
In celebration of the show’s twentieth anniversary (yes, it’s really been that long since we followed the lives of Newport’s elite), creator Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Alan Sepinwall have released Welcome to the OC, a tell-all book providing a behind-the-scenes look into how the show was made and the ups and downs over its four seasons. It features stories from the cast, including Bilson’s run-in with the famous twins.
Describing what sounds like a noughties fever dream, the actress recalled a terrifying moment where swarms of fans were trying to get to her and co-star Adam Brody. But who should come to her rescue? None other than Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Having just wrapped up an episode of MTV’s TRL in New York City, where the duo were also guests promoting their film New York Minute, Bilson details how the Olsens came to her aid when she was inundated by a crowd.
“I was getting swarmed by a mass mob,” she said. “They rescued me and threw me in their car.”
Brody, her then-boyfriend, was not so lucky.
“I left Brody behind because I was so nervous and didn’t know what to do,” she confessed.
Someone was thinking of Brody, though, just not Bilson.
“They were like, ‘Don’t you need to get your boyfriend?’,” Bilson recalled the sisters asking. “I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, we’ve got to go get him'”
Bilson, 42, and Brody, 41, dated for three years after portraying on-screen couple Summer Roberts and Seth Cohen.
In August, the actress marked two decades since the show’s debut with a snap of one of Summer’s memorable outfits with the caption ‘Twenty’.
Though rumours of a reboot have come up here and there, including a blessing from Brody himself, nothing has been picked up or confirmed. Still, one can dream…
