The O.C. almost had a super different cast. one of the creators of , chatted with stars and Melinda Clarke on the first episode of their new podcast, , Bitches, and revealed which actors nearly got the lead parts of bad boy with a good heart Ryan Atwood and troubled debutante For the part of , Schwartz revealed, early frontrunners included and D.J.
Cotrona. Ben McKenzie, , came to him thanks to a recommendation from another executive on the WB lot. “We had looked at a lot of people and [McKenzie] had read for a show, a comedy for the then-UPN and didn’t get it and one of the executives at Warner Bros.
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