HART OF DIXIE INTERVIEW PART IV 

THR: Is the endgame for season 1 already in place? what can you tease about those final episodes?

Gerstein: It will move toward a wedding day. We’re moving toward the wedding and I can tell you, there will be a wedding during the finale.

THR: What kind of changes took place, if there were any, in terms of character and/or story since the show began airing?

Gerstein: We didn’t absolutely know how much everyone was going to fall in love with Wade. We really fell in love, as well, with DeeDee, so we brought her back for much longer than we thought we would. We got a lot of depth and emotion from the Lavon/Lemon story in a way that surprised us because initially I didn’t know. They had three lines in the pilot that everybody talked about and that became an important storyline. With Lemon it helped us understand more about her and it’s made Lavon not just a comic character. There’s something deeply sad, I think, that he can’t be with the woman he loves and Lemon hiding this secret from George is clearly killing her. It’s been interesting how this secret has affected everybody and it will continue to trickle down and affect everyone’s story.

THR: Can you talk about the most unexpected reaction to a certain scene or storyline?

Gerstein: We all fell in love with Annabeth. Last week’s episode gave her a huge role; all our supporting characters are starting to pop and starting their own storylines. You’re going to be seeing a lot more of Tom Long and Kelly, Wanda comes back, and we have a few musicals in our future.

THR: American Idol’s Scotty McCreery will also be appearing ..

Gerstein: Scotty McCreery and Scott Porter will be singing in the same episode. [Episode 19 is] going to be incredible. In [episode] 16, there is the Man of the Year celebration and Lemon performs an adorable musical number and we have a fair amount of the town doing some “Gilbert and Sullivan” in episode 19. Tim Matheson (who plays Brick) also sings “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.” It’s awesome.