“It’s really fun to have a character who knows nothing about country music, nothing about Nashville,” he continues.
“We were interested from the beginning in talking about the different struggles singer-songwriters have,” showrunner Marshall Herskovitz tells TVGuide.com.
CMT announced in March that it was adding The O.C.’s Rachel Bilson and Empire alum Kaitlin Doubleday to the cast.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Bilson’s character Alyssa Greene is a fish out of water when it comes to country music.