Ben McKenzie from The OC

The actor Ben McKenzie is sitting in the den of his Brooklyn Heights townhouse, summarizing a 24-part MIT lecture series about the blockchain by SEC chair Gary Gensler. Gensler talks about finance being the intermediation of risk and capital, he explains before whipping me through the reliability of state-held currencies, the dangers of speculation, and

The actor Ben McKenzie is sitting in the den of his Brooklyn Heights townhouse, summarizing a 24-part MIT lecture series about the blockchain by SEC chair Gary Gensler. “Gensler talks about finance being the intermediation of risk and capital,” he explains before whipping me through the reliability of state-held currencies, the dangers of speculation, and the history of encryption from the Merkle tree (an early method of computer encryption) to ethereum (the biggest cryptocurrency after bitcoin). Once he gets through the three sides of the fraud triangle and the definition of securities, he takes a sip of tea. “It’s really good that you’re here talking to me,” McKenzie says. “Now my wife can say, ‘Thank God, for one day, I don’t have to listen to this shit.’”

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by Anonymousreply 56December 25, 2022 12:52 PM

Didn't he knock up that evil bitch Morena Baccarin?

by Anonymousreply 2June 9, 2022 7:15 PM

Looks like he’s still keeping it tight.

by Anonymousreply 3June 9, 2022 7:17 PM

I thought he started dating Marina when she was pregnant from her first husband, but the article says her 5-year-old is Ben's. Sounds like she got pregnant by Ben while still married to her first husband. Oops!

He's still hot as hell, and he's smart, too.

by Anonymousreply 4June 9, 2022 7:24 PM

How can he afford to live in Brooklyn Heights? Is he a crypto millionaire now?

by Anonymousreply 5June 9, 2022 7:27 PM

It looks like he’s wearing a yarmulke.

by Anonymousreply 6June 9, 2022 7:28 PM

Looks like he's auditioning for Twilight, the Reboot.

by Anonymousreply 7June 9, 2022 7:31 PM

He's a simp and she's a bitch.

by Anonymousreply 8June 9, 2022 8:04 PM

I find him completely hot as well as a total dork.

by Anonymousreply 10June 9, 2022 8:23 PM

Lots of speculation that he was gay until he got married. He was almost 40 by then.

by Anonymousreply 11June 9, 2022 8:55 PM

R4 if i remember correctly, her first husband came home one day to find Ben playing with his kid. Awkward as fuck.

by Anonymousreply 13June 11, 2022 9:40 AM

Juicy, r13! It looks like he'd already moved out of the house when it happened, though he does say she was probably already pregnant with Ben's kid when she was telling her husband she wanted to work on the marriage.

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by Anonymousreply 15June 11, 2022 10:16 AM

[Quote] though he does say she was probably already pregnant with Ben's kid when she was telling her husband she wanted to work on the marriage.

What exactly was her plan if the husband did decide to work things out? The Gotham set would have been a mess.

by Anonymousreply 16June 11, 2022 12:01 PM

God knows there couldn't have been any stress on the set of Gotham otherwise.

by Anonymousreply 17June 11, 2022 2:55 PM

I saw him onstage in a Broadway play just before the pandemic. He's very cute and was quite good, even if the play was only so-so.

by Anonymousreply 19June 12, 2022 12:49 AM

Was he always pale on pale?

by Anonymousreply 21December 16, 2022 9:39 AM

I thought about Ben several times when crypto went tits up recently! Although I do think about him regularly anyway, so.

by Anonymousreply 22December 16, 2022 10:14 AM

The United States Senate is hearing testimony about currency from a former teen soap opera actor?

The world is so upside-down these days I can't even process it.

by Anonymousreply 23December 16, 2022 10:20 AM

Yeah they just randomly picked him for no reason r23. Next week you're going to testify in front of a subcommittee about the content of lead and cadmium in chocolate. You gotta read the list they post on the bulletin board outside of the Senate chambers to see when you're gonna be called. Good luck!

by Anonymousreply 25December 16, 2022 10:28 AM

He was really good on Southland. His transformation from idealistic wholesome rookie in Season 1 to corrupt asshole by the final season's end was so amazing to watch. Plus he was hot as he'll on that show.

by Anonymousreply 26December 16, 2022 10:38 AM

R26, Yes! Southland was criminally under-appreciated. Ben is smart, talented, and hot, which is my kryptonite.

by Anonymousreply 27December 16, 2022 11:13 AM

I was on DL during The OC days and ya’ll swore up and down he’s gay.

Oh well, you can’t win them all.

by Anonymousreply 28December 16, 2022 11:16 AM

OP photo looks like a Prison Inmate photo where the guy is looking for love on a pen pal site. He was hot. Now? Not so much.

by Anonymousreply 29December 16, 2022 11:24 AM

R23, no no, you see:

[Quote] “Anyone with even an undergraduate degree in economics, such as myself, can tell you that money serves three functions: medium of exchange, unit of account and store of value.

by Anonymousreply 30December 16, 2022 11:25 AM

I see him broke in the future for investing his money in crypto

by Anonymousreply 32December 16, 2022 11:28 AM

Morena’s husband sounds like a bum who was leeching off his successful wife. Did he even have a job? Of course she was going to trade up.

by Anonymousreply 33December 16, 2022 11:50 AM

Morena has the worst nose job I've ever seen on a working actress. Yayo?

by Anonymousreply 34December 16, 2022 11:55 AM

I want him to fuck me slow and hard.

by Anonymousreply 35December 16, 2022 12:19 PM

[Quote] I was on DL during The OC days and ya’ll swore up and down he’s gay. Oh well, you can’t win them all.

Someone spilled on another thread that Ben used to hook up with younger extras on The OC so i guess the rumours about Mischa are true. I also remember him going on a double date with an actress but i guess they didn't click.

[Quote] Morena’s husband sounds like a bum who was leeching off his successful wife. Did he even have a job? Of course she was going to trade up.

Then why have a kid with him?

by Anonymousreply 36December 16, 2022 12:48 PM

Morena is said to be a nightmare on and off set.

by Anonymousreply 37December 16, 2022 8:03 PM

I can’t remember which film it was, but I never felt older than I did when Ben appeared in a film playing the father of an older teenager/young adult.

by Anonymousreply 38December 17, 2022 11:25 AM

[Quote] Morena is said to be a nightmare on and off set.

Then i can't imagine what it was like working on Firefly. Between Joss, Morena and Adam Baldwin 😕

by Anonymousreply 39December 17, 2022 11:32 AM

Ben is the poster girl for horrible noses. I could never watch anything with him because that nose made me fucking wretch.

by Anonymousreply 40December 17, 2022 12:34 PM

Everyone on The OC was in their mid-20s playing teens except Mischa who was still a teen.

by Anonymousreply 41December 17, 2022 3:58 PM

The United States elected a former b-list actor as POTUS. For two terms.

by Anonymousreply 42December 17, 2022 4:03 PM

[Quote] Everyone on The OC was in their mid-20s playing teens except Mischa who was still a teen.

[Quote] The United States elected a former b-list actor as POTUS. For two terms.

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by Anonymousreply 43December 18, 2022 4:20 AM

Another actor pretending to be an authority on something.

by Anonymousreply 44December 18, 2022 4:29 AM

[quote] The United States Senate is hearing testimony about currency from a former teen soap opera actor?

Most of those ancient fuckers in the Senate don't even understand basics of the Internet. He seems to understand crypto and its perils. If he uses/used it, there's no reason not to include his comments.

by Anonymousreply 46December 18, 2022 4:34 AM

McKenzie studied crypto and began warning the public about it being a scam last year, and a few months ago his book about it was released. He's been well known for this for about a year or so, maybe longer, and we had a pretty lengthy thread about it as well.

I honestly didn't realize no one on DL knew McKenzie was one of the few famous people speaking out about how people were going to get robbed by this crypto thing, and yes, that's notable in a world where every other celebrity was doing Super Bowl commercials about how great crypto is.

by Anonymousreply 47December 18, 2022 10:33 AM

So he's hot as fuck AND smart as fuck, too? Lucky gal his wife is.

by Anonymousreply 48December 20, 2022 7:50 AM

Does he have a big dick for the trifecta?

by Anonymousreply 49December 20, 2022 8:07 AM

I was never into Ryan on The OC, i preferred Seth and that was a mistake because Seth is a selfish asshole. Though i imagine Luke was a DL fave back then.

by Anonymousreply 50December 20, 2022 8:42 AM

I remember watching The OC the day it premiered. Although I was all about Chris Carmack (Luke), Ben McKenzie was unquestionably the “DL fave back then.” Throughout the mid-aughts this place was rampant with rumors about Ben McKenzie’s sexuality…while Chris and Adam Brody were hardly mentioned. Actually, I seem to recall Peter Gallagher and Tate Donavan being mentioned more than Chris or Adam.

by Anonymousreply 51December 20, 2022 9:25 AM

I never watched The OC. How realistic was it? Was it a bunch of Republican Christian extremist bodybuilders with Florida-worthy tans and the exact same nose job and Trump-family veneers?

by Anonymousreply 52December 22, 2022 8:30 AM

R52 not exactly. It was your typical teen soap opera. Although their tans do crack me up now.

by Anonymousreply 53December 22, 2022 12:30 PM

The OC was a soap opera. So, not realistic.

by Anonymousreply 54December 24, 2022 2:55 PM

Why was the father Irish and the son Jewish?

by Anonymousreply 55December 24, 2022 2:57 PM

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