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Kristin Davisisn’t just like herSex and the Citycharacter Charlotte York Goldenblatt.
TheAnd Just Like That…star, 58, revealed on Tuesday’s episode of Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin’s podcastBest Friend Energythat while the “essence” of her personality is the same as Charlotte’s, they have fundamental differences.
“We have very different lifestyles, you know?” she said.
“I’m not married. I’ve never been married. It’s not my thing. I was never focused on it,” she added. “It was never like a goal, let’s say.”
It’s a starkcontrast from her character Charlotte,who is married tohusband Harry (Evan Handler)on the series. She had been devoted to finding the perfect man to marry throughout the show’s original run and was often dubbed a hopeless romantic. When Teplin noted this, saying marriage was “Charlotte’s whole thing,” Davis remarked that that’s where the acting chops came in.
“I know. That took some acting, let me tell you. It really did,” Davis said with a laugh.
“I would stress out on those days, where I would have a paragraph on a page of all…the rules and the marriage and the whatnot, and oh my God, I would just be like, ‘How am I going to do this and make it real and believable?’”
Kristin Davis films ‘And Just Like That’ on September 20, 2021 in New York City.Gotham/GC Images
“I loved my first wedding,” she said. “I’m not really a wedding girl but, you know, Charlotte loved it so I loved it.”
She even got to have the experience of picking out her own wedding dress — alongside the show’s costume designer, executive producers and writers.
Kristen Davis and Kyle MacLachlan’s characters marry on ‘Sex and the City’.Everett Collection
Everett Collection
“I must have tried on 35Vera Wangdresses. Like literally, I have a stack of polaroids this big of me in wedding dresses,” Davis recalled. “The poof one won and it was just like such a weird thing because it’s not my thing at all. Like I would never wear that dress, if I did get married.”
“No, I would not be wearing that veil. I wouldn’t be wearing any of it,” she explained. “But I was devoted to it. Do you know what I mean? Like a character seeps in you and you love it because she loves it.”
Davisspoke to PEOPLE last month about Charlotte’s evolutionon the show since her single girl days, saying, “I think that the essence of her is certainly the same, but there’s so many things that she’s learned and grown through her experience. It would not be fun if she hadn’t grown.”
Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis filming on location for ‘Sex And The City 2’.James Devaney/WireImage
James Devaney/WireImage
The Emmy nominee creditsAJLTwriterand directorMichael Patrick Kingwith pushing boundaries — both for her as an actress and for Charlotte as a character.
“He’ll say, ‘Let’s try it this way,’ which is the more expected way of Charlotte. And then he’ll say, ‘Why don’t we just go for it and don’t think at all?’ And I’ll do it and that’s what he ended up using,” Davis noted at the time. “That’s the fun of knowing people as well as we know each other and having people that will let you stretch as an actor and let the character evolve. That’s all the joys of having25 years together.”
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And Just Like That…season 2is streaming now on Max.
source: people.com
