The O.C.'s lesbian kiss
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Josh Schwartz thought a kiss was just a kiss. When the creator-executive producer of Fox’s hit melodrama The O.C. wanted his lead female character (played by Mischa Barton) to sexually experiment with a lesbian, Schwartz didn’t anticipate any flack.
“I was wrong,” he says. “I overestimated how evolved we’ve gotten. There was tremendous pressure (from the network) for us to not do the story line.”
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