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Jaime King celebrated the 15th anniversary of Hart of Dixie at Pluto TV’s event in Hollywood on June 10
King reflected on her character, Lemon Breeland, calling her multifaceted and one of her favorite roles to play
She credits the show’s comfort and charm to its heartfelt writing and the cast’s genuine connection with each other
Jamie King has a lot of heart for Hart of Dixie. When catching up with PEOPLE at Pluto TV’s Hart of Dixie 15th Anniversary Celebration in Hollywood on June 10, King, 47, reflected on what made the show so special and why she loves her character.
When asked where she thinks her character Lemon Breeland would be today, she says, “I feel like she’d be doing something radical. Like some[thing] kind of like feminist but still traditional. Who knows? Who knows? She’s probably traveling the world.”
King’s character was engaged to Scott Porter’s George Tucker on the show, and tells PEOPLE what she’s taken from playing her.
“What I really wanted to do with Lemon and what I’ve learned from Lemon is that it takes courage and bravery to go for what it is that you want, to break through the traditions to go for the loving that you want, to go for the things that make you happy,” she shares. “She’s just so multifaceted and definitely one of my favorite humans.”
The cast of ‘Hart of Dixie’ in 2011
Credit: Mathieu Young/The CW
The show, which ran for four seasons from 2011 to 2015, is frequently rewatched by fans and hailed as a comfort show. One of the reasons King believes that is because the creator and our showrunner, Leila Gerstein, “said that she wanted to write about a show and create a place where she would want to live.”
“That’s really what it was like. With all of this hustle and bustle and noise in the world, when we were on set, and the stories that we told are really about like day-to-day life, and they’re funny, and they can be outrageous, and there’s love, and there’s comfort, and I think people need that. People want to have characters and their relationships that they can rely on,” King shares.
Cress Williams as Lavon and Jaime King as Lemon in ‘Hart of Dixie’
Credit: Richard Foreman/The CW
She says the pull of the show is “a testament to the writing and it’s a testament to the casting of it because these people will forever be like embedded upon my life and it’s very emotional.”
“You can really feel our loving for one another in the show and our loving for our audience. We do these things because we want to entertain, and so it’s such a gift when we can,” the actress says.
Reflecting on the show, King says that one thing that goes through her head is “happiness.”
“This show makes me so happy, and so many people so happy, and it’s such a testament to how much loving that we have as a cast and like such an exquisite show that we made,” she continues. “And I love that people can laugh and feel comforted by it, and I think about these characters all the time, so I’m just over the moon.”
She says the show is “the gift that keeps on giving.”
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