Mischa Barton seemed like an entitled brat to me when I saw her on The View last month. She acted haughty and downplayed her breakdown, blaming it on her schedule and the painkillers she was taking after the removal of her wisdom teeth. I guess you would expect her to make it seem like her involuntary mental hospitalization wasn’t a big deal, but she also made some snotty statements about the other people in the psych ward, saying “you realize I’m nothing like these people. I have a career, I worked so hard for it.”

Mischa’s career isn’t much to speak of lately. Her CW show “The Beautiful Life” was abruptly canceled after just two episodes aired, which one of her co-stars attributed to lack of promotion by the network. I saw the first episode and the show was a disjointed mess. The plot was all over the place, there were too many characters and Mischa seemed like a parody of herself. What’s more is that a lot of critics attributed the show’s failure to raccoon-eyed Mischa’s inability to carry a series. I think that may have been a small part of it, but that there was much more at play.

It doesn’t matter to Mischa, who seems to think that TV is beneath her. She told People Magazine that she doesn’t think TV is for her and that she’s getting offers for roles but they’re not good enough. She wants to “go fight for interesting things.”

Demonstrating that she’d regained her model figure with a Versace gown at the Whitney Museum Gala, Barton, 23, said she doesn’t mind not working for the small screen anymore.

“I think I need to back away from the whole TV approach,” she said. “That whole world of network television, probably isn’t, for me, a good idea now. I need to start reading for more serious roles.”

But she’s not sure exactly what the next project will be.

“It’s too early to tell yet,” she said. “I’m passing on all the [early] offers, because that’s not the stuff you want to do. I want to go fight for interesting things and look for something that’s going to be interesting for me … as a role.”

For now, her focus is on her body – she said she regularly works out with girlfriends – and on embracing life in Gotham.

“Reading scripts and enjoying living in New York,” she said, calling her break from work “lovely.” “Now that I’m not doing the TV show, I’ve got lots of time to work out.”

[From People]

You know, I really was rooting for Mischa after she had her breakdown. I loved her on The OC and was hoping that things would work out for her and that she would move on to better things. Mischa just sounds like such a snob though. According to IMDB she’s done a bunch of movies but I know I haven’t heard of any of them. Maybe she’s overcompensating because she feels insecure that she doesn’t have something lined up right away, but she doesn’t need to act like that. It’s her voice, too. I just hear her nasally voice in my head saying these quotes and think “give me a break.” Maybe I’m misinterpreting her, though, and she’s not that bad.

On a positive note, Mischa looks really pretty here and she didn’t overdo the makeup.

Mischa Barton is shown on 10/19/09 at the Whitney Museum Gala. Credit: Andres Otero/ WENN.com