Bilson shared the throwback picture shortly before Malek won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Freddie Mercury in 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
Rachel Bilson has recalled a time that her former high school classmate Rami Malek asked her to remove a photo of the two of them together from social media.
Bilson said that she then saw a response from Malek a week later in her Instagram DMs.
Josh Schwartz, who created The OC, also apparently told Bilson that she “did [Malek] dirty” ahead of the Oscars.