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" Cosmo: Growing up in New York City, were you a club kid? Mishca: I was more of a loner. And I still feel that way. Even if I got out, I don&amp;#039;t like to push it too much. I don&amp;#039; like huge crowd&amp;#039;s which is why I prefer to hang out in lounges. C: How did you land your role on The O.C.? M: I had done a guest apperance on [executive producer] McG&amp;#039;s other show, Fastlane. I met with him after and he was like, &amp;quot;I want you to do my [new] show.&amp;quot; He really pushed to make me Marissa. I was actually the second persn cast. Peter Gallagher [who plays Sandy Cohen] was first. C: What&amp;#039;s it like having people pick apart everything you wear and everything you do and following you around all the time? M: It&amp;#039;s really weird when people scrutinize every little thing about you and talk about your outfits and your weight and who you&amp;#039;re dating\u2026and there&amp;#039;s absolutely nothing you can do about it. You just have to have a good sense of humor about the whole thing. My family and my friends would never let me get too involved in it. C: Have you ever heard or read anything in the press abour yourself that has made you really upset? M: I once heard that I was being called too skinny and they were saying I was anorexically skinny. I could not believe they said that about me. C: What&amp;#039;s the biggest misunderstanding about you? M: Because I play a girl who&amp;#039;s a bit of a rich snob, I think maybe I&amp;#039;m seen as this teen idol who&amp;#039;s perfect in every way. That&amp;#039;s kind of funny, because I don&amp;#039;t see myself that way at all. C: In what ways do you think you are like Marissa? M: Sometimes she feels like a bit of an outsider. She doesn&amp;#039;t always feel like she completely fits in. I think Marissa will probably be that girl who leaves home, who wants to get out of that whole scene and move really far away when she&amp;#039;s a little older. I guess I can kind of relate to that feeling. C: So every girl in America want to know: Is Ben McKenzie a great kisser? ?&amp;amp;gt;M: I probably shouldn&amp;#039;t say anything, but yes, he is. C: What do fans say to you when they meet you? M: Twenty-five-year-old guys will say &amp;quot;My girlfriend watches your show.&amp;quot; Then they&amp;#039;ll accidentally let it drop later in the conversation what happened in the last episode, so you know they watch the show too. I love that.&amp;quot; C: What&amp;#039;s your idea of the perfect first date? M: I hate formal dates. My most ideal date would be something spontaneous, probably a concert, where there&amp;#039;s good music and we can talk and hang out. But I think my best dtes have been walking around, going into stores, going to the park\u2026and then it turns into a night thing because you&amp;#039;re having so much fun together. C: When it comes to dating, do you tend to prefer Hollywood actors to regualar guys? M: I have mostly met guys through high school friends in New York, and I&amp;#039;ve always thought it was dangerous to date an actor, because they become obsessed with self-image and can get really big egos. But now I don&amp;#039;t know. When you work all the time, you start to realize that maybe actors are the ones who can really understand you. C: What do you usually look for in a guy? M: I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want. I h ate it when guys are indecisive, because I have always known what I want. I like the intellectual types, but I also tend to like the bad boys. I guess I don&amp;#039;t have one type necessarily\u2026and I don&amp;#039;t base much on looks. C: Any celeb cruhes? M: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Hugh Grant, and Jude Law. C: Are you single? M: Yes. C: What&amp;#039;s it like to open up a magazine and read that you&amp;#039;re dating Ben McKenzie? M: It&amp;#039;s terribly weird, but it&amp;#039;s kind of amusing now that I can laugh about it. I think it&amp;#039;s funny because they announce it like it&amp;#039;s a fact: &amp;quot;O.C. Stars, They&amp;#039;re Dating.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s hysterical. There&amp;#039;s no basis for it. They never called me and checked it. When I first hear it, I cry and get upset, but finally, I get past the point of actually being mad. C: How do you and Ben handle it? M: We actually make fun of the press. We pretended for a whole day that I was dating Adam [Seth] and Rachel [Summer] was dating Ben, just throw everyone off. But they were like [to Ben and me] &amp;quot;So, are you guys dating?&amp;quot; And Adam goes, &amp;quot;No she&amp;#039;s my girlfriend.&amp;quot; C: What was it like making &amp;quot;Addicted,&amp;quot; that very sexy Enrique Iglesias video? M: I sort of had an idea that it was going to be sexy, but filming it turned out to be surprisingly easy. It was a little strange when they would say like &amp;quot;Can he get on top of you now?&amp;quot; But it was fine because Enrqiue totally looked out for me. He would say &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think you should do that&amp;quot; or &amp;quot; No, I think that&amp;#039;s pushing it too far.&amp;quot; I was surprised. I was really expecting him to be the one who would want to push the envelope. C: Would you ever consider doing a nude scene? M:Yeah, if it were an artsy film or a good film with a good director and good actors. I just wouldn&amp;#039;t do anything that&amp;#039;s blatantly gratuitous.&amp;quot; C: Before your current Neutrogena campaign, had you ever done any modeling? M: When I was 10 or 11, I did the Calvin Klein campaign. It ended p everywhere. I would walk into a theater, and the would be my face on popcorn bags, and I would see myself on the sides of buses. Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it&amp;#039;s offered, it&amp;#039;s hard to say no, because it&amp;#039;s fun. C: How do you stay in such great shape? M: I go jogging occasionally, I do light weight training, and I try to swim a lot. But I&amp;#039;m not on whole big serious regimen. I get bored with working out, so I&amp;#039;m more into playing sports like soccer and basketball. And I don&amp;#039;t ever deprive myself of anything. I&amp;#039;m not a vegetarian, I eat desserts. C: You went to Manhattan&amp;#039;s prestigious Professional Children&amp;#039;s School. Did you have any famous classmates? M: I started right after people like Scarlett Johansson and Christina Ricci finished. The Rich Girls [Ally Hilfiger and Jaime Gleicher] were there with me. It&amp;#039;s funny that they ended up with their own show. They&amp;#039;re pretty much how they are on the show but not quite as bad. C: Most girls your age are heading off to college. Do you have any desire to go? M: Yes, that&amp;#039;s important to me. I still take high school classes even though I have my GED, because I love school and I want to get into a good college. Yale just sent me the packet about their drama school. I was like, It&amp;#039;s perfect! But it&amp;#039;s difficult, because everytime I want to focus on school, I get another job. And I can&amp;#039;t refuse work. I love it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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