Nonetheless shut in any case these years. The ultimate episode of Laguna Seaside: The Actual O.C. aired fifteen years in the past, however that doesn’t imply the forged has drifted aside.
“They’re all my finest associates nonetheless,” Alex Murrel completely instructed Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 1, about her former costars and classmates. “Folks suppose it’s loopy that you just really hold associates from highschool. And I believe it’s a very stunning factor, as a result of it was such a small city that we’re nonetheless all in contact. Jason [Wahler] simply moved, however earlier than he moved, I’d see him and his spouse on a regular basis.”
The previous actuality TV character continued: “And, , if all of us received in a room collectively, it could be as if no time handed. That’s type of the thrilling half about [the show] all coming again to [Netflix].”
Murrel added that with lots of her former classmates, “regardless that we don’t discuss day-after-day, it’s like as if no time handed [when we do]. … I simply really feel like it could be actually enjoyable to all be collectively.”
Lauren Olsen — who glided by Alex H. on the beloved MTV actuality present — echoed these sentiments. “[I] keep up a correspondence with everybody principally [through] social media, however nobody that I actually make plans to see or something,” she instructed Us. “I dwell in Santa Cruz now, so I’m not in Laguna anymore. However I imply, if I have been to see somebody in passing or be in a bunch setting, it could simply be nothing however love and hugs and reminiscences.”
Whereas Talan Torriero would even be interested by having a Laguna Seaside reunion, he doesn’t suppose followers would take pleasure in it as a lot because the forged would.
“It’s attention-grabbing, I get requested quite a bit, like, ‘Are we gonna ever do like an official reunion?’” the efficiency advertising and marketing government instructed Us. “And I at all times joke that we should always do like a Cabo spring break, like, Jersey Shore [Family Vacation] … However it could in all probability be fairly boring, proper? Like, I’d be in mattress by 10 o’clock day-after-day.”
Torriero added that it’s been “fascinating” to see the lasting reputation of Laguna Seaside. “I began doing TikTok and only for enjoyable … and it simply blew up,” he defined. “I’ve … and it’s undoubtedly not quite a bit, however I’ve like 110,000 followers [already]. … You understand, somebody had talked about to me that Netflix was having the present come out. And at first, I used to be like, ‘Oh, cool, no matter.’ However then my brother referred to as me and he’s like, ‘Do you perceive how huge of a deal that is?’”
He continued: “He’s like, ‘[If] you get on the entrance of Netflix, [it] is gonna simply completely catapult this to a model new viewers that, that in any other case had by no means seen it.”
Preserve scrolling to be taught extra about who the forged of Laguna Seaside retains in contact with, a decade and a half later: