There’s nothing Hart of Dixie fans want more than a TV reunion, but what are the chances Wilson Bethel could share the screen with Scott Porter again — except this time on Ginny & Georgia?
During an exclusive interview while promoting his new Netflix series Untamed, Bethel, 41, weighed in on the possibility of making a cameo on Porter’s show, teasing, “If they’re there for it, I’m there for it. I love Scott so sign me up for working with him more. He’s my man and I’m so psyched for him and all the things that have been going on for him and his career and in his life.”
Bethel joked that if “the world needs another” fictional love triangle involving him and Porter, 46, then “sign me up.” His stamp of approval comes after Porter listed the potential onscreen reunions between him and his Hart of Dixie costars on future seasons of Ginny & Georgia.
“Cress Williams and I worked together on Friday Night Lights. Then we worked together on Hart of Dixie. Then I worked with Brianne Howey on Hart of Dixie — and now we’re working together here,” Porter exclusively told Us in June. “So maybe Cress should come along over here for the third time.”
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Porter changed his mind, however, when he realized the show doesn’t “need any more good looking guys.”
“I’m already competing with [Nathan Mitchell‘s] Zion and with [Raymond Ablack‘s] Joe,” he quipped. “But I have been so fortunate to work with so many — not only incredibly gifted actors — but incredible humans. I am still friends with Rachel [Bilson], still friends with Wilson [Bethel]. Willie and I still talk a lot to this day.”
Hart of Dixie, which ran on The CW from 2011 to 2015, introduced Us to Rachel Bilson’s Zoe, a New Yorker who made the move from New York to Alabama to work as a general practitioner in the town of Bluebell. While there, Zoe ended up in a love triangle with Porter’s George and Bethel’s Wade.
Porter previously weighed in on Us‘ pitch about Bilson, 43, being cast as a new love interest for his character on the Netflix hit, saying, “I think Paul is in such a place where he can’t even think about a relationship right now. Just the tumult that he has been through — just the high dryer cycle he’s been tumbling through right now.”
He continued: “His head is spinning and his career is on the line. I think Paul is going to focus up a little bit. I don’t think he’s going to have the ability, the heart or the brain power to be able to forge a new relationship.”
While Zoe didn’t end up with Porter’s George, she did get a happily ever after with Bethel’s character. A decade after the show wrapped up, Bethel reflected on where he thought Zoe and Wade would be now.
“For starters, they would have a 10-year-old, which is kind of crazy. Maybe they got another one or maybe they got two kids,” he told Us. “I think they are probably still driving each other crazy as a couple. But I think there’s a lot of love there.”
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Without being promoted, Bethel made it clear he would be up for any kind of Hart of Dixie revival or reunion, adding, “At some point if the fandom reaches a critical mass and they just can’t take another day without another season of Hart of Dixie, nothing would make me happy than doing another more episodes and revisiting those characters and where they’re at now. I love doing that show and I love all those people.”
For now though, Bethel is focused on Untamed, which premiered on Thursday, July 17, and is set in Yosemite National Park, where a woman’s death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain, where nature obeys no rules but its own. Bethel plays Shane, an introverted former army ranger and current park Wildlife Management Officer.
“When I first started auditioning for the character, I didn’t know the full extent of his motivations and what was guiding him,” Bethel explained to Us. “In that stage where I’m initially putting together the character and figuring out who he is, I’m making some educated guesses that weren’t entirely accurate.”
Bethel continued: “One of the things that I think is fascinating about this show in general is how deftly they tease out the information to really keep it, obviously, twisty and in line with what this kind of genre of show should be. But they do it in a really graceful and interesting way. In a way that feels like it’s not cheaply [fleshed] out.”
Untamed is currently streaming on Netflix.
