Rachel Bilson reprises ‘The O.C.’ character Summer Roberts for tequila ad: I’m ‘always’ up for a reunion

California, here she comes. 

Rachel Bilson, 42, reprised her role as “The O.C.’s” Summer months Roberts in a new tequila ad. 

The advertisement – which also reunited her with the show’s creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, as they established it by way of their creation business Bogus Empire – capabilities the legendary theme song “California.” 

Bilson instructed Range in an interview printed Wednesday that she got involved mainly because, “Josh informed me about it. I have to get started by stating just about anything that Josh and Stephanie do, I’m always like, ‘Yeah.’ They say, ‘Jump.’ I say, ‘How large?’…when they said we’re likely to carry Summer season back again and they were being composing it, of class I’m likely to do it for the reason that how entertaining does that seem? Tequila and Summertime, come on! She’s naturally drinking her tequila because no Orange County housewife can endure devoid of it.”

When the outlet questioned Bilson if summer time is a “Real Housewife of Orange County,” the actress said, “I really feel like she really should be.”  

“The O.C.” aired on Fox from 2003-2007. Starring Bilson, her then-boyfriend Adam Brody, Ben McKenzie, and Mischa Barton – whose character, Marissa, was controversially killed off – the display followed teenagers in a seaside neighborhood. 

In the tequila advert, after introducing the drink, Bilson opens a doorway to reveal a person who resembles Ryan (McKenzie), although Mackenzie doesn’t characteristic in the ad place. 

When Bilson asks who he is, the man responds with Ryan’s line from the pilot: 

“Whoever you want me to be,” as he provides tequila.

There’s also a female who resembles Marissa (Barton) throwing a lawn chair into a pool, and Summer months claims her recurrent phrase, “ew!” 

“I’m just going to say this for the fans — she’s surely nevertheless married to Seth. They have young ones. Let us paint that photo,” Bilson explained to the outlet. 

“She’s living her very best existence. Summertime, I truly feel like she really bloomed about the 4 years of the demonstrate and she just continued that way.”

In the 2023 ebook, “Welcome to the OC: The Oral Background,” Schwartz admits that he regrets killing off Marissa. 

Casting director Patrick Hurry also confessed that Brody’s 1st audition was “obnoxious” and “disrespectful” of the substance, and Schwartz also commented that his audition “sucked.” 

Bilson explained to Wide variety that she’d be open up to a reunion. 

“I would generally be up for it. But it is also this matter that folks even now look at and are however exploring. So do you just go away that special moment as it is? You weigh the two sides mainly because certainly it would be entertaining and I enjoy all people and it would be wonderful to go back and we have to have to by some means convey Marissa back again to daily life and do the total thing if we do it,” she mentioned. 

“But also leaving it for what it was and how particular it sort of was, is also a good.”