These are photos of Mischa Barton on the New York set of Law & Order: SVU. In case you couldn’t really tell, Mischa is “in character” as a hooker. Call me crazy, but I think she should ask to keep the coat. And those tights look expensive. But I digress… apparently, Mischa is still acting like a girl with a lot of problems. Probably because she’s a girl with a lot of problems, eh? Radar’s sources claim that Mischa was somewhat overwhelmed with her big seven lines of dialogue, and Mischa’s “unprofessionalism” turned her one day of filming into a nightmare:
Mischa Barton has been filming a guest spot on the hit NBC crime show Law & Order: SVU but she hasn’t been winning any friends on set. According to a source, Mischa spent all day Tuesday flubbing her lines and the show only shot one scene the whole day – which turned into a 10 hour day because of Mischa’s mistakes.
“She only had seven lines, seven!” the source told RadarOnline.com exclusively about the recently out of rehab actress’ problems with her lines. “Each time she would mess up she would forget her lines and Mariska kept prompting her and saying ‘it’s your line Mischa’.”
According to the source, Mariska Hargitay and the cast and crew on set were losing patience with Mischa’s “unprofessionalism.” To her credit, the actress did apologize, saying “Sorry,” each time she missed her lines.
“She looks pretty,” said the source told RadarOnline.com, adding that Mischa’s little dog was running around the set and she “always looked happy when she was playing with the dog.” At the end of the grueling day, Mischa scooped up her dog and “ran to her trailer,” said the source.
Mischa was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold back in July by Los Angeles police and taken to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She bounced back from her hospitalization and starred in the short lived television show Ashton Kutcher’s The Beautiful Life.
[From Radar]
Yes, it’s sad. I’m of the opinion that Mischa truly has issues that have yet to be dealt with. So I’ll just say that I hope she gets some help and leave it at that.
But allow me to rant about Law & Order: SVU for a moment. As I mentioned in the Mariska Hargitay post earlier today, Law & Order: SVU has been sucking big time this season, and it’s not all Jay Leno’s fault. The story lines have been more depressing and ridiculous than usual, and the casting and usually interesting characters have been uninspired and bland. Christine Lahti’s character arc nearly killed me, and Neeylo and Lin234 noted, not only is Mischa filming her scenes now, but Sharon Stone is expected to make an appearance as some kind of cop or lawyer too. The one bright spot (for me) was Naveen Andrews’ appearance last week – but it’s too much to hope that he’ll become a cast regular or anything. But wouldn’t that be something? He was lovely and gorgeous last week. But… you know who they really need to bring back? Marcia Gay Harden’s brilliant portrayal of FBI undercover officer Starr. Harden was the bomb!
Mischa Barton and Mariska Hargitay on the New York set of Law & Order: SVU on January 19, 2010. Credit: Bancroft/Fame Pictures.
bwahahahaha
seriously, ever heard of a cue card? You hired her…. we don’t feel sorry for you
Wouldn’t it be counter-productive for a hooker to wear tights? Just sayin’.
You’re going about this all wrong. Jay Leno ruined SVU and that’s why the show sucks. It’s all very mystical. Like a very The Secret kind of thing. The Law of Leno has permeated the show.
YES! Hayden was awesome! And oh, I was ecstatic when I saw Naveen. Oh my word, I would be happy if he was a regular. They have got to shake things up there…it’s feeling very tired is SVU. They’ve done just about every story there is…
Couldn’t agree more about L&O/SVU. That used to be my favorite L&O but not anymore. All the “jumping the shark” episodes (Robin Williams crouched behind a bush & no-one can find him!!) and Mariska & Chris’s acting have turned me off. It’s seems like a vanity show now for whatever those two feel like doing (or not doing).
Poor Mischa. I don’t like her, but she’s clearly messed up. Sounds like someone tried to do her a favor and give her a role on the show, but she couldn’t even handle that. Hope she seriously gets help.
I haven’t watched any L&O shows in years. I think they’ve all been on too long and must be running out of ideas. But moving a very dark show to 9 instead of 10 probably didn’t help either.
As a big Regular Law & Order nerd, I can tell you Mischa Barton was on that show like ten years ago, as a teenager who has her mother killed cause she won’t let her party. She was quite good.
dread pirate cuervo: “Wouldn’t it be counter-productive for a hooker to wear tights? Just sayin’.”
I wondered about that too.
(Restraining self from elaborating.)
The tights could be crothless!!!!
i think part of it is leno. the later you put a show on the air the more risks and such you can take. by moving it forward an hour it is expected that more kids will be watching therefor you need to turn it down.
once it resumes it’s regular time slot i think we can expect everything to improve.
Starr! This is wild. I was just having a conversation about her character the other day. Yup, definitely time for her to return.
SVU died for me a couple of seasons ago. When they had Adam Beach (Det. Lake) join the team only to give him a super short cop-turned-vigilante story arc… they lost me. It would have been wise to expand the team, as it’s been a limited set of characters for way too long; I think that’s a lot of what’s hurting their ratings. People are getting tired of Olivia’s tough girl/victim dichotomy and Elliot’s temper issues are played out by now.
Barton’s not talented, she’s not particularly pretty, her 15 minutes ended ages ago, why are production companies still putting up with her $hit? Hargitay must’ve gone mental dealing with this entitled twat when every extra and bit-part actor they usually work with is 100% professional with an actual resume but not “the one gig” that made them somewhat famous for a second.
I like SVU and Hargitay, but that snarl she constantly wears now is not an acting style. And Meloni’s way over the top, too, but I blame the writing.
Marcia Gay Harden was okay for the eppys she did, but her extreme southern lesbian character got old by the end of the two-parter, would grate on my last nerve if she were a regular. They’ve also brought in really bad regulars’ subs, as well, like Nicholas Gonzalez and Connie Nielsen. The death knell has sounded.
Oh if they would please make Naveen a part of the show. He was pretty awesome and there was some good chemistry between him and olivia.
Plus, lost is ending soon so he’ll need the work. right? Right?
yes, Kaiser – you’re officially crazy. 🙂 But seriously, that coat is tacky!
Naveen was great, so was Adam Beach, and I totally love Ice-T & Richard Belzer, and I want those two guys to have bigger parts. I love it when Ice-T & Mariska are paired together, because I think they have a lot of chemistry together too.
Remember when Pam Grier came on as a guest star for several episodes? I loved her too. But back then, the guest stars were written really well too. The show needs better writers and it needs to go back to more realistic crimes.
Re: Stabler. I think they have made an effort to tone down his violent, vengeful side. But it came back when f-cking Lahti was on, but I didn’t blame him for wanting to punch her.
I think if you ask Ice-T he’ll say his parts are pretty big. Hi ohhh.
…I lust after that coat.
(Slinks away)
Both Christine Lahti and Marcia Gay Harden need to lay off the injectables. It’s distracting.
I’m sure the story about Mischa is completely exaggerated
However I don’t doubt she has serious issues, drugs / alcohol related but I wish her luck
I like the coat too. I have one just like it. But I rarely have occasion to wear it.
I like her hair that color (not wild about the extensions though). But she seems to be a bit overrated and overexposed for somebody that can’t remember 7 lines.
Ugh, she’s an idiot.
I agree WTF? look how many of the actors went on to be in The Wire, and now they are resorting to cheap tricks (hah pun intended) to get their ratings back up. I wish they would stop the desperation. it looks lame.
Haven’t seen any of the new episodes. I usually watch the reruns on USA. The only L&O I watch, although I’ve heard criminal intent is good too. Overall, a good show. They really shouldn’t be running out of ideas, alot of the plots seem very closely related to real life cases.
Sorry do not believe this story, even if she came in unprepared, which I doubt, as she needs to hit this out the park to get her career back, I just cannot see her or any actress not being able to remember 7 lines, unless they were drunk/stoned, and like I said I doubt she would show up in that state with her career hanging in the balance.
I’d never seen Mischa Barton act until THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE and she really is talentless. She’s lucky to get seven lines on a show.
Love SVU. In reading all of your comments, I’m really glad I have only watched it in syndication!!
Love the older episodes from the early 2000’s.
Crotchless, Linda! Crotch-less….
It doesn’t look like Mischa is very serious about it… she’s more intent on playing with her prop (the sucker)than listen to the director. Snap out of it Mischa, or you’ll be “hired” for dates too!
GREAT GATSBY for post of the day!