I don’t know about you, but in high school there was only one boy for me and his name was Seth Cohen. He may not have been real, but in my mind, he was the one.
Nowadays, Adam Brody’s a dad to four-year-old daughter Arlo and married to Leighton Meester – which still blows my mind.
Brody has worked steadily since starring in The O.C., but he’ll always be Seth Cohen to many of us, and he knows it.
In an interview with GQ, the 39-year-old was asked if he still gets recognised as the character these days and, unsurprisingly, the answer was yes.
“Yeah. I don’t get recognized all the time, but of people that do, [being noticed as Seth is] 80%. And am I okay with it? Yeah, I am,” he said.
But it turns out he’s definitely not interested in reliving those days on the show, so don’t expect a reboot with Brody anytime soon.
“I’ve had my gripes too because I’m about to be 40, it’s a high school show, and it doesn’t really interest me at an adult even though I’m very happy with the legacy and I was happy at the time and I’m proud of the work I did, and I’m proud we got to be a part of pop culture, but it’s not something that interests me in terms of revisiting.”
When asked about an O.C. reboot he revealed he actually doesn’t mind reboots and that “it’s flattering to the original show”.
“I think [The O.C.] could [be rebooted]. I don’t know what the new take is. I’m sort of a fan of the reboot culture moment we’re having, I don’t get too put-off by re-doing shows from my youth. I actually like it, and if it doesn’t work — which mostly it doesn’t — then fine, it’s flattering to the original show.
“If it works, then you get a new addition. It would have my blessing. As for me, no [I wouldn’t be involved], I’m in another stage in my life. And I feel silly saying no because they’re not doing it and I haven’t been asked, so who am I to turn down non-existent work? But the truth is, it’s not that I mind talking about it, and I haven’t fought hard to not to talk about it, I don’t care, I’m talking freely about it now, and I enjoy it to a certain degree.
“But as someone who would also like to be known for my other work, I can’t imagine dipping back into that pool to have another decade of conversation.”
So there goes any hope we ever had of seeing what Seth and Summer are up to now.
GQ asked if Brody believed Seth was what a lot of women were looking for “as their ideal boyfriend”, he said he did.
“I think he was genuinely thought of as ‘the nice guy,’ the alternative to a very aggressive hypermasculine ideal. I haven’t seen it in a long time, but I wonder, looking back, if I watched it again, would I find him noble or if I would find him really selfish?”
I mean, Seth did spend a lot of time talking about himself…