Adam Brody Opens Up About 'Scream' Death & 'The O.C.' Plot Line He Didn't Like While Eating Spicy Wings on 'Hot Ones'

Adam Brody is opening up about his various roles over the years.

The 45-year-old Nobody Wants This star made an appearance on Hot Ones with Sean Evans.

During the appearance, Adam spoke about his on-screen dynamic with Kristen Bell has evolved over the years, not liking the trapped in a mall plotline on The O.C., and being stabbed to death by Ghostface in Scream 4, among other topics.

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On how his on-screen dynamic with Kristen Bell has evolved over the years:

“This might be irrelevant, but she wasn’t pregnant and then I worked with her very much pregnant on House of Lies. And so, I’ve seen her, I guess, through motherhood and stages. And I think there’s a history of not just each other, but of us being in the business and in similar circles for as long as we have. But I will say so much of it is also the writing because, as good as our chemistry was on those earlier projects, you know, nobody was freaking out over it, you know. It was very much these characters on Nobody Wants This are very much set up to be rooted for.”

On not liking the trapped in a mall plotline on The O.C.:

“I remember the middle of season two, we got trapped in a mall overnight. And I was like, I think I saw this on Saved by the Bell. I think they also got trapped in a mall. And I don’t like it. I remember Marissa, Mischa Barton’s mom, is dating my grandfather. Or is going to be engaged to him. And I’m like, that’s a great actual plot but it was like episode 15, maybe 18, in the mid-teens, of the first season. You know she had already, Tate Donovan and her had already split and she’s already— and I just thought that’s quick. That’s a lot of story fast. But I do like that storyline a lot. It was funny. But I just thought, man, it’s early.”

On why music was crucial to The O.C. being a mold-breaking teen show:

“I think two things, well maybe three things are involved in that, and one of them I think is the most nostalgia based, which is music. I think for a teen show, it was the most music-centric I think at that point. And I think music is such a lock into a memory or unlocks a memory so much. And that’s what I was struck by when I watched it again. I was like oh the music’s doing so much work here in a great way and it’s such a part of the tapestry of it. I guess the other two things I was going to say I think in terms of like it being somewhat mold-breaking was the comedic infusion and also certainly the meta infusion. You know that more than anything hadn’t really been— yeah, the self-awareness had not been done in that kind of show before.”

On the satisfaction of Jennifer’s Body turning into a cult classic:

“I think it was ahead of its time. I think it was, it might have not mattered, but I think it was positioned wrong at the time. I think it was marketed like 180 degrees the wrong way, but regardless that might not have made much difference. This thing that came back from the dead that people enjoyed, it’s almost more satisfying than if it just comes out of the gate, you know, successful…I mean the truth of the matter is, I’m not in it all the at much, so like it doesn’t concern me as much as other people. But I think it’s great and I was a big fan then and I’m happy other people are now.”