Rachel Bilson Thinks Hart of Dixie’s Zoe and George Deserved a Romance

They might not have been the lover favored pairing on Hart of Dixie  — but Rachel Bilson agrees that Zoe and George deserved their fair prospect at romance.

“I will say they did not really get their shot and it, they ended up intended to!” Bilson, 42, completely instructed Us Weekly though selling her partnership with 21Seeds. “Wade came and swooped in, and I do come to feel like they could have experienced a minor little bit far more time [with Zoe and George]. But it all worked out.”

Bilson starred on The CW dramedy, which ran from 2011 to 2015, for four seasons. The present adopted Bilson’s Zoe as she moved from New York City to the small city of Bluebell, Alabama, to do the job as a spouse and children health practitioner for a 12 months following she’s available a position by a stranger. When she arrives, she discovers that the male is essentially her biological father who has died and left her his half of the observe in his will.

In addition to fighting to preserve her father’s half of the observe intact by securing 50 percent of the customers, modifying to compact town lifestyle and figuring out her qualified long term, Zoe also finds herself in a seasons-extensive like triangle with the town lawyer, George (Scott Porter) and local bartender Wade (Wilson Bethel).

Despite the fact that — spoiler inform — George phone calls off his wedding ceremony to Lemon (Jaime King) for Zoe at the close of year 1, she finally chooses to hold off on their romance and day Wade, as an alternative. And whilst Zoe continually prepared to circle again all around to George at some point, the twosome essentially in no way dated through the show’s operate.

When talking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2011, HOD showrunner Leila Gerstein — who received her large crack producing for fellow CW collection Gossip Woman — claimed that she likes to have her “mind changed” when it arrives to creating romantic prospects for her figures.

“I like to imagine, ‘Oh, Zoe and George ought to actually be with each other,’ this week and upcoming 7 days, ‘Wait a moment, Wade is actually specific, probably she should really be with Wade. He could assistance her definitely loosen up,’” Gerstein stated at the time. “I like to transform anticipations, I assume that is entertaining for an viewers. I, as a viewer, like to go on that ride. I like when folks are sensation like ‘no, no, no’ and arguing with each individual other. Gossip Woman and The O.C. did a excellent task [with that].”

Bilson, of course, also starred on The O.C. as Summer season Roberts, exactly where her character found herself caught in many appreciate triangles more than the years. The most distinguished was in between longtime like Seth (Adam Brody, her true-existence boyfriend at the time) and Zach (Michael Cassidy), in the third period. Though Summer months in the long run followed her coronary heart to Seth, she instructed Us that Zoe would likely have performed anything various: she would have dated “both.”

In fact, Bilson thinks that if the roles have been reversed — and Summer time got thrown into quaint Bluebell — she, way too, would have a tricky time deciding upon between rebel Wade and excellent dude George. But, why would she require to?

“Looking at how she wound up with Seth, she could definitely go either way. Simply because she [dated] each Zach and Seth,” Bilson stated. “I necessarily mean, it is a modern day time. I feel like that would be suitable.”

While Zoe and George by no means definitely bought their shot, it could be also soon for a Hart of Dixie reboot to explore what could have been. The O.C., even so, is a exhibit supporters have been begging to see again on their screens for decades. While Bilson understands the need to head back to Newport, she also thinks it can be “hard to touch something that was so terrific.”

“You view it and you are like, ‘Oh my God, it was, like, a magical time.’ It was an incredible issue and persons are however finding it or rediscovering it,” she informed Us. “So it’s like, how do you contact a little something like that and go back? But then speaking to [the cast and crew], being around all people, it is like, ‘But we had these types of a excellent time with each other, how awesome would it be to be able to do it once more?’ So I go again and forth. Do you contact it? Do you go away it?”

Ultimately, Bilson stated that if creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage were included, she’d be “up for anything” — which includes a revival. For now, enthusiasts can get a style of Summer months and The O.C. through Bilson’s 21Seeds partnership, exactly where she, Schwartz and Savage revisit Summer time Roberts in 2024 as a result of legendary scenes from back again then.

“I generally say I would do something with Josh and Steph, like if they asked me. So when Josh, you know, approached me with this, I was like, are you kidding? Totally,” she gushed. “And the timing of it is so awesome mainly because it is 21 several years [since The. O.C. premiered] and it is 21 seeds. It could not arrive at [a] far better time.”

As for acquiring again into the legendary job of Summer Roberts — Bilson had no challenge slipping back into the juicy tracksuit and heels.

‘What’s so bizarre is how effortless it was,” she quipped. “Like, just to move back again into Summer’s footwear, so to talk, it felt definitely superior. It was really pleasurable and it didn’t truly feel like any time experienced passed, which is tremendous weird.”

With reporting by Sarah Hearon