"Hart Of Dixie" star Jaime King | The Latest WIth Maya

 A conversation with Jaime King.❤️ 


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SPEAKER_01 0:00

It's the latest gun.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Hi Jamie. Welcome to the latest with Maya. You've seen Jamie King and to name just a few things. Heart of Dixie, Sin City, Black Summer, and White Chicks. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm so excited to be talking with you. Likewise, so much.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

It's pretty amazing what you do. Do you love it so much?

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Thank you. I do. It's my passion.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Thank you. Um, so who do you most admire and how has that impacted the way you live your life?

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Oh wow. Who do I most admire? Oh man.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

I that's a really good question. That's really challenging. Who I most admire and how has that impacted my life? It's interesting because throughout my life I've had and I still do so many pe it's really rather than it being an individual, it's a collective that I most admire. Does that make sense? Yeah. I admire, I admire like the collective that works together. Like being on set, you know what I mean? Or like being, you know, around certain families or like, you know, just groups of people. There's something about watching how um how extraordinary it is when people come together in loving or with the sit like with the same vision and they all have like their own unique talents. And watching that is like it like really it's it leaves me in awe. I just think it's the coolest thing what we can all do together, and I admire that because teamwork is something that like it really takes a lot of intention and clarity of focus, you know, and it's a really cool like organism on its own, you know, seeing how people work together from many different places and backgrounds, and I I admire what I admire the most is the human spirit, yeah, and and the artists, yeah, and the builders, and the inventors, and the scientists, and on the oh, I love that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Um, so what is the greatest lesson you have learned from a character you've played?

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Your questions are so good, Mike. Thank you. The greatest lesson that I've learned from a character that I played. You know, it's really interesting because I don't like the characters I play are like my are me, you know. Um and another person and they merge like that, you know, that's what it feels like. Um I think Rose may no, it's really hard. Um, I think maybe I learned something from each one of them. You know, I really do. It's like it's almost as if like a character comes into your life at the right time that you need it. You know, like really at the right time that you need it. And it's like it's such a gift. It's such a gift because we all really I think that inherently we all want to share, you know, and be free in our sharing, and that's what acting allows you to do. I think maybe Lemon Breland would be the character.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

Um, Heart of Dixie is one of my favorite shows.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Um, I'm glad you like it.

unknown 4:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Um, so what uh small things bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_02 5:04

The small things that I enjoy on a daily basis.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Um I enjoy like the first coffee of the day. Um, I enjoy my children. Um I the small things. Like seeing if there's any candy left that my but when my best friend came over. It's like it's like the little things, really little things. Um, I like picking up like books and reading like a couple pages. This is a play that I'm studying. It's really good. Um uh I really like walking around the block and just like sitting on the stoop and watching people.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Yeah. Um so what is um the biggest obstacle either personally or professionally, that you've overcome?

SPEAKER_02 6:13

The biggest obstacle either personally or professionally. It's so well the thing is is that like it's all like intertwined. The professionally and personally, I think. Like in terms of like the entertainment industry, in terms of being an artist, because art is so personal. The biggest obstacle that I've overcome is I think a lot of it has to do with vanity. Um, Keen and Ivory Wayne said that there's no room for vanity in comedy. And the way that he approaches film is the same way that we would at like the actor's studio. It's very, you know, method, the way he approaches comedy is it's the same way as you know, you would with drama. And I and I think that you know, it would it's a really interesting perspective because I've I've always admired great, great, great comedians, you know, and the freedom that they have within their body and also the control, the discipline and the poise. Um and growing up in fashion, it was like from such a young age, this this idea, everything had to be, you know, like this kind of, you know, the look, the presentation, the this, that, the other. Even at the time that when I was in fashion, like it was like a different kind of like a style or you know, inspiration, I guess. But even in the inner, like when I went into filmmaking too, it's like this obsession with how someone looks. And so I think one of the biggest obstacles was when I first came in, and people already knew me, you know, for as being this big, you know, model. And the biggest obstacle that I overcame was telling people that I was going to be, you know, I knew that I was going to be a filmmaker. I knew it. And it just really hadn't been done a lot of times before that. And so by studying and working really hard, I was able to overcome the obstacle of people being like, wait, what? You're still at the top of your game in the modeling industry. Why would you just stop doing that to go do this other thing? Now it seems like it wouldn't be a big deal or a big like obstacle, but then that was a really big deal. And um, so that was a great obstacle. And then with with the vanity and with comedy, it's like we are taught that we have to look or act a certain way, which causes us to be less free inside of ourselves and less free in how that we move through the world, you know what I'm saying? Because it's so easy, like we have to mask all the time, and um and I really wanted to have that level of freedom in comedy, as I saw in you know, like my what on the films I was doing that were you know comedy, you know, I wanted to I wanted to understand how my fellow cast members worked. And by having a director that's so loving and so supportive and and has this natural capacity to make you feel so safe no matter what, like that was a big thing. And not because I had any obsession with the the how I look, it was more like a bridge, like it gave me this opportunity to understand that there is areas in this beautiful, you know, world of of art, well, specifically filmmaking, um that just had many other facets to it. And the reason why I would say overcoming that as an obstacle is because I had because I had to overcome the sort of patriarchal, you know, views of how we view women and all the yada yada yada. And so it it just it really, it really, really helped me.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

Oh wow. Um so um is there uh someone who without fail always makes you laugh?

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Selma Blair. She's so funny. She's one of the funniest human beings I know. Oh she's like she I mean, oh my god, she's so funny. Everything she does is funny. She doesn't have to do anything, she's so funny. Oh, I love that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Yeah. Um so what is something you have accomplished as an adult that your younger self would be proud of?

SPEAKER_02 11:29

Having children. Yeah. That to me is a very big accomplishment. And it's something that I've always wanted to do. That for sure.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um so um I am uh pop culture obsessed and I go in stages of shows that I cannot stop watching.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

Uh I love that life for you.

unknown 12:01

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

Um is there a show that you are currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_02 12:12

But it's not popular. I I I started watching um these things called boring history for sleep. And I started getting and I don't know why, but I went down like a rabbit hole of anything that's Victorian. And um because I just recently moved into home that's Victorian. And so they're really bad, these things. Like they're like, like, and some of them are so boring, it's it's almost like irritating. But I put it up on my projector, and I just I watch them and see how messed up the AI is, like, and why the images don't fit the actual like things that they're saying. And I know that sounds ridiculous. It sounds ridiculous, but it is um a recent pleasure that I have um watching. That's literally like the probably one of the things that I watch the most lately. Like, I'll even watch it during the day because I find it so funny.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

I know you're like, what is she talking about? Okay, weirdo. Um and then I'm trying to think of the other, like I like to when like for me with shows, I like to watch them over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And so, like, like flea bag is a show that I watch over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And I always revisit it. And whenever I'm not sure what it is that I want to watch, like I will I will watch flea bag, or and I will also have people watch flea bag.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Oh yeah, I um I have a long list of shows that are just like tell me to read shows um for me that I just re-watch all the time. So right now I'm re-watching uh the Netflix remake of One Day at a time. Um oh yeah, do you like it? I love it. It's one of my all-time favorite shows. So I just have episodes I constantly re-watch, and so I'm just constantly re-watching that right now. If I have like something I need to do, but I want something on in the background that's a show right now, so yeah, and then I I've been re-watching Rosoli and Isles, um, and so like re-obsessing over that show.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

So what do you love about it? So, like, what are the things that you love?

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Oh, I love it's such an interesting story, and like they have such interesting cases that they work on, yeah that some are are very creepy too. So, like there was one that I was just watching right before interview that was like, I can't watch this right now. This is creeping me out.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

Wait, wait, so like, but can you like can you like get down with like creepy horror stuff? It or I mean it's some horror is not creepy, some creepiness is not horrific. But tell me, what do you think?

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Yeah, I mean, I I I don't like I don't really like horror movies, I like like thrillers, but there are some movies that I've watched that I know would be considered horror that I have really liked. Um like Scream Seven, um I I love that movie. I think it's also because the memory I have watching it was I watched it with my mom and sister when my sister was home, and so we were all just on the couch with our dog, and so it was fun to like scream together. I was I was that's the best. Yeah. If I watched it by myself, I might have been too creeped out, but watching it with them um was really fun.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

That's the cool thing about movies is that like it's it every like things can really change when we're with like more than one person, you know what I mean? Like the shared experience leads to like I think some of the excitement too.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Yeah, definitely. And at one point we all screamed so loud we scared our dog, so she jumped off the couch and like ran behind it and just started barking. Yeah, so we were like, okay, you probably wouldn't protect us against ghost face, but that's funny. You're like, yeah, yeah. So yeah. Um so um if you had a warning label, what would yours say?

SPEAKER_02 17:29

A warning label, yeah. I ask a lot of questions.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

I like that. Yeah, I love that. My mom's the same way. Is she?

SPEAKER_01 17:44

Yeah, she is cool.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

Yeah, yeah. I've always really liked that. Um, and sometimes I don't always think to ask questions. So I'll be talking to my sister and then tell my mom something, and she's like, Oh, what is she going to do? I'm like, I I don't know. I forgot to ask her that.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

But you ask questions all the time, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

Yeah, so in real life, you know, sometimes that's literally part of your profession. Yeah, yeah. So like when I'm talking with like my sister or my friend though, or like a friend, sometimes I just I don't know why, but I don't always think to ask certain questions that then afterwards I'm like, oh, I should have asked them this. Yeah, yeah. But in the moment I don't think of that.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Well, do you think that like well do you in the moment are you just conversing with them or are they asking you questions? Do you get do you feel like you get swept up into the moment?

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Yeah, yeah, I just get caught up in the conversation and I don't think that asks are different. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

We all have like, but like what questions do you feel like you forget to ask?

SPEAKER_00 19:12

I don't know, like sometimes my sister will tell me she's like going to um do something, like going out to do something. And sometimes I mean to ask her what she's going to do, but I just I've like we're just talking and I forget to ask her that. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:34

That's okay though.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:37

Would that be your warning sign? What would yours be?

SPEAKER_00 19:40

My, I think I'd have a few, and one of them would be prone to anxiety, don't overload. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Can I can we when they're making the labels? Can someone get can we? We need more than one of those. I need one.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

Okay, yeah. I'll I'll get I'll get two.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

I get terrible anxiety.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

I have since I was really little.

SPEAKER_00 20:07

Yeah, yeah, me too. It's been and sometimes it goes in phases where it's like a little bit better, and then for some reason it gets worse.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

At like certain points in the day. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

It's it's interesting, it's kind of like um look out. I find like sometimes in the afternoon that can get more anxious in the afternoon.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Um, what about you? Do you ever get anxious in the afternoon?

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Yeah, I I do. I've been uh finding myself getting like really anxious at night recently. Um and then I don't I like stay up too late because I can't sleep. And so me too.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

That's why I've been deep diving into the Victorian board industry. I think that anxiety comes to people that are very sensitive, you know, and I think sensitivity is a very beautiful gift, yeah. Um, and also when when one's really empathetic, you know what I mean? It's like it's like it's all the feelings, it's feeling so deeply all the time that I find can be cause anxiety, but I like sometimes I don't have necessarily know where it's from, you know, and so and the thing about having anxiety, um that I that I I try and see everything like, okay, what is the tool of this? How can I learn from this? What is this teaching me? Um anxiety can teach like a lot of empathy for oneself, you know what I mean? Like I feel empathetic. You know, when I have anxiety well, not when it's happening, you know what I mean? Because when it's happening, it's like um But I but again I like I look at it um in a way um like I don't like I think anxiety can cause people to feel well at least for me to feel super lone when I'm having the anxiety, you know, because like it's like you try and cover the anxiety.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

Um and I think it's so important to talk about it because then you by sharing about it, then other people can relate to it, which for me I find calming.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

Yeah. You know, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Um, so I um just have I have two more questions if that works for you. Of course, yes. Thank you. Um, so what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_02 23:06

A genre a dark comedy.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

I like that.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

I love dark comedies.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

Me too.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Yeah, yeah. I think I um I mean I want my life story to be both I want it to be a dark comedy, but also musical rom-com.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Oh my gosh, yes. Dang it, yes, a musical rom-com. That's the move. Yeah, that sounds so much more entertaining. Well, I think dark comedy. I love musicals though. I love anything with musicals. Like I'm obsessed.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

By here, they're singing a movie. That I mean, I'm I'm I'm all in. Yes, it's so cool, it's so fun. Why do we not have more musicals? Like, yeah, why not?

SPEAKER_00 24:10

Yeah, definitely. I yeah, I've actually since I haven't really been sleeping at night, I've been watching a lot of rom-coms at night. Um, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

Oh man. Do you like Sandra Bullock?

SPEAKER_00 24:32

I love her.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

She's so good.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

I was thinking about I was just thinking about rom coms and I and I was thinking about Renee Zellweger, so brilliant. And Sandra Bullock. There's something about her that really calms me too.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Yeah, yeah. I just started re-watching the um sorry, uh, the proposal, which is one of my favorite. Bless you. Thank you. Um, The Proposal, which is one of my favorite rom-coms.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

Um I haven't seen it yet.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Oh, it's so good.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

Yeah, it's I gotta see it.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

Yeah, it's on Netflix. Um, so yeah, I've been uh I started re-watching it the other night.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

And what do you like about it the most?

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Oh I just I think it's such a cute movie and it's just so comforting. And I mean, it's uh I love Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Um yes, oh my gosh, it's like the dream team. And I'm actually kind of glad I haven't seen it yet because it's sort of like when you have something like that you can anticipate, you know what I mean? Because like I when you watch so much of someone's work and then you haven't there's something you haven't seen, it's kind of like a treat, you know what I mean? It's like it's something to look forward to, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so I I would love to hear what you think of the movie.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

Um oh for sure, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Where do you live? I live in Colorado.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Oh, what part?

SPEAKER_00 26:19

Uh I live in Centennial, so it's like a suburb of Denver.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

I love Colorado because I grew up in Nebraska until I was about like 14. And my sister went to school in Colorado. Um it's really beautiful there.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

Um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

Do you like it?

SPEAKER_00 26:39

I do. I actually I I because there's uh um an altitude in Colorado. I actually I visit LA a lot, and it's uh LA is my favorite place, and since it's at sea level, I always feel better there. Yes, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

I understand. I I don't do well with altitude, and actually that can also, yeah, it's there's something about it. I mean, yeah, but Colorado is so pretty. Yeah, when how when do you come to LA next?

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Uh well I was just there um the end of May, and I'm hoping to come back in October because nice. Um, yeah, me and my sister and our mom are our birthdays are all in October, so we usually go to LA to celebrate. So I'm hoping to that will go back in October.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

That'd be awesome. I like the closeness of you guys. That's really neat.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

Thank you. Yeah, they're they're um, yeah, they're my best friends.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

So that's so awesome.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Thank you. Um so my um final question for you is uh today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_02 28:08

To meet you. I'm really, really grateful for that. I'm most grateful for that. I think it's just so um it's really special because what it is that I do is I mean it's the world to me, you know, and and I do what I do for the people and for people. And so I just yeah, I'm so grateful for you, and I really appreciate you.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

Thank you so much. I'm so grateful to be meeting you. I I've been looking forward to this since we got it scheduled, yes, likewise. Thank you. Um, yeah, and so thank you so much for joining me. I can't tell you how much it means to me to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Um it's my pleasure. I'm so glad.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Thank you. Um, and yeah, I hope you have um a great rest of your day. And yeah, just had the best time talking with you. So thank you.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

Oh, thank you. You two, I so appreciate you. I look forward to seeing you again.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

Yes, me too. Whenever you want to come back on, I'd love to talk with you again.

SPEAKER_02 29:32

Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

Of course, yeah. Um, and that's a wrap on today's edition of The Latest with Maya.