Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know, are
Speaker 1: you a Charlotte? Alrighty, We're gonna just answer some questions
Speaker 1: that came from fans, which is always fun. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for sending me questions, and let's do it some more. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, here's the first one. If Charlotte was to
Speaker 1: take her younger self out to coffee, what would you
Speaker 1: say to her younger self? Apparently this is a trend
Speaker 1: on social media, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 2: I like the trend.
Speaker 1: If I were to take younger Charlotte out to coffee,
Speaker 1: I would say, relax, it's all gonna work out. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a bumpy road, but you're tougher than
Speaker 1: you think. That's what I would say to her, and
Speaker 1: probably what I would say to my own self as well,
Speaker 1: and probably what I probably everyone would say that to
Speaker 1: their own younger selves. I don't know, but I think
Speaker 1: that I think that's definitely what I would say to
Speaker 1: younger younger Charlotte, because she's obviously so worried about her
Speaker 1: goals and so focused on her that almost to the
Speaker 1: point where she can't see what's really real in front
Speaker 1: of her, so I would say, focus less on your goals.
Speaker 2: It's all gonna work out. I think that's what I
Speaker 2: would say.
Speaker 1: Okay, my favorite outfit for Charlotte and then for the
Speaker 1: other ladies.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Very hard to pick favorites. People ask me this very often.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows I love the lipstick skirt. One time I
Speaker 1: did have this Oscar de la Renta dress. It was
Speaker 1: black lace. I believe I wear it in the first movie,
Speaker 1: to Carrie's engagement party or like night before the wedding party.
Speaker 2: That's what it's not engagement party, I don't think, is it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wear it.
Speaker 2: It's got lace, has got a deep v neck. I
Speaker 2: wish I had that dress.
Speaker 1: It's one of the few things I don't have. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we gave it back to Oscar dela Reenta.
Speaker 1: It was before Oscar himself passed away. He was such
Speaker 1: a lovely man, and I just wish I had that
Speaker 1: dress because it was one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 1: Though I've loved every Oscar de la Renta dress I've
Speaker 1: ever worn. In terms of the other Ladies favorites, ooh,
Speaker 1: it's tough, but you know, weirdly, yeah, I'm rewatching the
Speaker 1: first season, as you guys know, and the other day,
Speaker 1: Sir Jessica was wearing this.
Speaker 2: Butter yellow dress.
Speaker 1: It's definitely the color of yellow that is very on
Speaker 1: trend right now, and it looks almost like a nurse's uniform.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a cotton dress. She just has
Speaker 1: a belt with it.
Speaker 2: Her hair is in this very.
Speaker 1: Cool kind of pulled back on the sides curly. It's
Speaker 1: her natural curls. I love this outfit so much. I
Speaker 1: don't remember this outfit. It's very simple for her, but
Speaker 1: I just love it. I mean, she looks good and everything.
Speaker 1: As you guys know, she can make a paper bag
Speaker 1: look good obviously. I mean, there's so many outfits that
Speaker 1: she wears that I love. But sometimes when i'm rewatching,
Speaker 1: I love the really basic, everyday thing she wears because
Speaker 1: she just has a way of making them all look
Speaker 1: amazing and styling them just so.
Speaker 2: And sometimes she messes with her clothes.
Speaker 1: On camera, like she'll fix her collar or she'll kind
Speaker 1: of pull on her shirt.
Speaker 2: And it's super interesting.
Speaker 1: It's not something that I was ever aware of then,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of unusual because as actors were kind
Speaker 1: of somewhat. Possibly the costume people don't want us to
Speaker 1: do that, but it is something that people every day do.
Speaker 1: But it's just like tucking your hair behind your ears,
Speaker 1: and every day people always tuck their hair behind their
Speaker 1: ears if you have long hair, but they don't really
Speaker 1: want you to do this when you're acting because then
Speaker 1: in continuity you have to make sure that you do
Speaker 1: it at the exact same time in the scene that
Speaker 1: you did it before, because you're going to film it
Speaker 1: from a different angle and if your hair doesn't match,
Speaker 1: it's going to mean that it's not editable, right, you
Speaker 1: can't cut it together. So the continuity people get very
Speaker 1: stressed out when you tuck your hair bind your ears,
Speaker 1: but in reality, this is something everybody does. So it's
Speaker 1: one of those really awkward things as an actor where
Speaker 1: you want to do it because this is normal life.
Speaker 1: You're trying to be as normal as you can be,
Speaker 1: but then it causes production problems. So I love her
Speaker 1: in her everyday clothes, and I love when she messes
Speaker 1: with her clothes other outfits for them. Well, listen when
Speaker 1: Kim wears the lingerie and the fur coat when she
Speaker 1: comes to my apartment, I'm still in the first season, right,
Speaker 1: So it's on my mind. It's incredible. And the funny
Speaker 1: thing is that I do tend to think of the
Speaker 1: first season as not really being kind of fully formed
Speaker 1: in terms of our style yet, because we weren't able
Speaker 1: to borrow clothes because no one knew what the show
Speaker 1: was and this I don't know what that coat is.
Speaker 1: I don't know where they got that coat and what
Speaker 1: lingerie she's wearing, but it could not be more incredible
Speaker 1: out there on Fifth Avenue or whatever it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be Central Park West. I think it was actually a
Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue though, But it's so great and powerful and
Speaker 1: you know, I don't use this word lightly, but iconic.
Speaker 2: Let's see for Miranda.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we've come across any like complete
Speaker 1: favorites yet.
Speaker 2: In Miranda's first season, we're.
Speaker 1: Maybe her suit in the beginning and the pilot it's
Speaker 1: gray and she's.
Speaker 2: Got a rebox on. I'm gonna go with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what.
Speaker 2: I really love.
Speaker 1: I love these crazy overalls that are coming that people
Speaker 1: wear on Halloween. Now she's got like overalls and like
Speaker 1: a buffy coat, and I don't know how come she's
Speaker 1: wearing that.
Speaker 2: I don't remember why. I don't know why Pat let
Speaker 2: her wear it. It's really funny. I think she might
Speaker 2: have a baseball cap on.
Speaker 1: I really love those funny, really weird Miranda outfits. But
Speaker 1: I also really love her bride'smaid's dress for Carrie's wedding.
Speaker 1: It's like that beautiful, strong periwinkle blue as a Zach
Speaker 1: Posen dress. If it isn't this so beautifully and looks
Speaker 1: so gorgeous with her hair and her skin is just glowing.
Speaker 1: It's very beautiful dress. Those come to mind, But you know,
Speaker 1: ask me tomorrow and I'll have you a different set
Speaker 1: of answers.
Speaker 2: Okay, can I define the Charlotte aesthetic?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, sure, the Charlotte aesthetic, which definitely is not
Speaker 1: happening yet in first season so much, I mean a
Speaker 1: little bit, but not a lot. Her look is that
Speaker 1: she likes something that's structured and starchy, like you know,
Speaker 1: Crisp Cottons an a line skirt as time goes on,
Speaker 1: a tighter skirt. Pat, you know, kind of talked me
Speaker 1: into it as time went on. But in the beginning,
Speaker 1: I like Crisp a line skirt, a wide belt, Cinchton
Speaker 1: like if my belt is not Sinchton when I'm working,
Speaker 1: I just don't even feel like I'm Charlotte. Basically, she
Speaker 1: loves white, black red. I'm a winter so Charlotte likes
Speaker 1: winter type colors. Pat and Mollie have always enjoyed putting
Speaker 1: me in like blues, like soft powder blues. I don't
Speaker 1: really love them on myself, to tell you the truth,
Speaker 1: but they're always trying, so I still kind of let
Speaker 1: Molly do it. Love pink obviously, don't even have to
Speaker 1: say that. Charlotte also likes a little bit of whimsy
Speaker 1: in her outfit. So like in the original show, I
Speaker 1: used to have all these cute little Peter Pan type
Speaker 1: collar shirts that were mume I feel like, and they
Speaker 1: had little little like sequence and things sewn on them.
Speaker 2: Obviously, I love Prada, the Proda lipstick skirt.
Speaker 1: Kind of a little bit tongue in cheek, just to
Speaker 1: you know, have some kind of sense of humor about
Speaker 1: her clothes. I guess also really loves wait pearls, which
Speaker 1: sometimes is a problem because also Carrie loves pearls, So
Speaker 1: I have to pick and shoes where I'm gonna wear
Speaker 1: the pearls, But pearls obviously make perfect sense, as Charlotte
Speaker 1: is the you know, Park Avenue girl.
Speaker 2: What else, She's very.
Speaker 1: Into her diamonds, goodness as time goes on. Wow, We've
Speaker 1: got a really incredible set of jewelry from miss Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm just blown away by her jewels. She loves
Speaker 1: her Cardier watch. She's had some incredible jewelry over the years.
Speaker 1: She's definitely a jewelry girl. And I was gonna see
Speaker 1: something else, but it went out of my mind. But
Speaker 1: you know, she loves her Manolo pump. We've got every
Speaker 1: color of those things. I've been building my collection for
Speaker 1: many years, me and Charlotte also.
Speaker 2: Building the collection of Manolo pumps, Swayed, Patton, regular leather,
Speaker 2: all of them.
Speaker 1: But I think I think I was mostly just gonna
Speaker 1: say there's a little bit of whimsy in Charlotte's look,
Speaker 1: which I think people forget when they think about the structure,
Speaker 1: which is also very true. But I have a lot
Speaker 1: of kind of whimsical, funny little pieces, like I had
Speaker 1: this beautiful bow necklace that was made of diamonds way
Speaker 1: before bows were popular. It's a really good one. I
Speaker 1: think it was possibly dere jewelry I'm not sure, like
Speaker 1: just like like girly things that are just a little
Speaker 1: bit you know, kooky, I guess would be a word.
Speaker 2: Okay, next question, Oh, this is an odd one.
Speaker 1: If Charlotte were to date any of the other lady's men,
Speaker 1: who would it be? Okay, So definitely that would be
Speaker 1: a big no now And one of the only notes
Speaker 1: that I ever remember HBO giving to the show, like
Speaker 1: as a storyline from our read through. We would always
Speaker 1: do a read through where they would come or have
Speaker 1: someone there right to listen. There was this storyline where
Speaker 1: I think it was Miranda and Carrie both like the
Speaker 1: same guy, or one of them dated the guy, and
Speaker 1: then the other one states to guy, but then the
Speaker 1: other one isn't wonder to da guy.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. They argue about a guy and HBO said,
Speaker 2: absolutely not.
Speaker 1: The women will never be arguing over a guy, and
Speaker 1: that was really smart of them, and I'm really glad
Speaker 1: they did it because we've just seen so much of
Speaker 1: that in film and television and it's just kind of
Speaker 1: ig you know, and I don't really feel like it
Speaker 1: happens that much in life, because I think that women
Speaker 1: know not to date people that their other friends have dated,
Speaker 1: you know, so that's one.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Do I think I could have played any of the
Speaker 1: other characters?
Speaker 2: Definitely? Know, I think I've covered this already.
Speaker 1: They did send it to me for Carrie at one point,
Speaker 1: and I definitely do not ever, ever, ever think in
Speaker 1: my wildest dreams I could to ever pull off Miranda
Speaker 1: or Samantha, and not even Carrie, so only.
Speaker 2: Charlotte for me for sure.
Speaker 1: What is something you wish Charlotte would have gotten the
Speaker 1: chance to do but it didn't happen. Okay, I do
Speaker 1: think I've said this publicly, so I'm going to say
Speaker 1: it again. I hope I don't get in trouble with
Speaker 1: Michael Patrick. But when we were trying to plan the films,
Speaker 1: there were many times that we were trying to plan
Speaker 1: a film and then it didn't happen. And then eventually,
Speaker 1: obviously the two films that you guys have hopefully seen happen.
Speaker 1: But there was going to be a film in Michael
Speaker 1: Patrick's mind where right at the if we had done
Speaker 1: the film immediately after the end of the series and
Speaker 1: Charlotte had adopted Lily with Harry, and Michael planned that Harry,
Speaker 1: no Harry didn't go. Charlotte was going to take Lily
Speaker 1: to China so that she could see where she came from,
Speaker 1: and they were going to have to go into the countryside.
Speaker 1: And Michael had this idea for some reason, and that
Speaker 1: I was going to have to try to get an
Speaker 1: ox across a river.
Speaker 2: In the mud.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he had this idea, but he did,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, let's do it. And then
Speaker 1: I would have to take Charlotte would have to take
Speaker 1: a train back to Beijing or whatever to get her
Speaker 1: flight back, and she would feel seasick on the train
Speaker 1: or you know, like motion sickness, and it would turn
Speaker 1: out that she was pregnant, and that's how she would
Speaker 1: find out that she was pregnant with Rose, who then
Speaker 1: eventually changes into Rock.
Speaker 2: That was how the storyline was going to go down. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he ever asked Newline if we
Speaker 2: could go film in China.
Speaker 1: I have no idea how far he got with the storyline,
Speaker 1: but I did think it was really, really fun and
Speaker 1: I so desperately wanted to do it, and I was
Speaker 1: sad that we didn't get to do it, but we
Speaker 1: got to do other very cool storylines in our movies.
Speaker 2: So it all worked out.
Speaker 1: But in my mind it's almost like I did get
Speaker 1: to do it, or like Charlotte did get to do it,
Speaker 1: because I have a very very vivid image of what
Speaker 1: he described to me. Okay, this is a weird question.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to answer it, but let's
Speaker 1: talk about it. When and where were you when you
Speaker 1: got the news that the first movie was being made? Okay,
Speaker 1: I have no idea. But the thing about these things
Speaker 1: is that it's never just one call. You know. There's
Speaker 1: always such a process that involves so many people, all
Speaker 1: of our agents, HBO, Slash, new Line, Michael Patrick, Sir Jessica,
Speaker 1: all of the people involved. You know, It's it's never
Speaker 1: just one phone call. It's more like I think, you know, in.
Speaker 2: Some ways, were we on hold.
Speaker 1: I think we were on hold technically speaking for a
Speaker 1: while to do the film, but it was unclear who
Speaker 1: was going to produce the film. I don't think we
Speaker 1: had new Line shored up as like how like which
Speaker 1: part of Warner Brothers would make this film. It wasn't
Speaker 1: really something that was commonly done to take a television
Speaker 1: show and make it into a film. I can't even
Speaker 1: think right now, the other ones they have done it,
Speaker 1: it's not that common. It's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: But we were obviously under the Warner Brothers. Bann Er
Speaker 1: HBO was owned by Warner Brothers, and you know Time
Speaker 1: Warner owned Warner Brothers at the time. Now we have
Speaker 1: a different name.
Speaker 2: Discovery.
Speaker 1: Max. I could keep going with the different names, but
Speaker 1: it's never just one call is really what I want
Speaker 1: to say? And so I have absolutely no idea, and
Speaker 1: I think it was probably a series of calls, and
Speaker 1: I think I was probably bothering Michael Patrick. Oh. Also,
Speaker 1: we had script approval, so I think at a certain
Speaker 1: point we would ask Michael Patrick like, how's the script coming?
Speaker 2: How's the script coming?
Speaker 1: You know? And then I would ask my manager like,
Speaker 1: who do you think is going to make this film?
Speaker 1: And if he'll say, oh, I talked to Toby at
Speaker 1: Newline and he's they're going to make it, I say, great,
Speaker 1: we love Toby, And you know, like that, it would
Speaker 1: go on for months, right Like the development of a project,
Speaker 1: any project takes forever, much less a project that's jumping
Speaker 1: from the screens of your actual television in your house
Speaker 1: to the movie theaters in the actual movie theaters, which
Speaker 1: is how it was in two thousand and eight when
Speaker 1: the film came out. So it was a whole long process,
Speaker 1: and I don't remember when I got the call that
Speaker 1: was actually greenlit, but I do remember just being so
Speaker 1: excited when Michael was feeling really positive, had written the script,
Speaker 1: had turned the script in New Land, liked it, we
Speaker 1: got to read it.
Speaker 2: We all liked it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: That was thrilling, But I don't think, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I really believed it until we got back to
Speaker 1: New York and got all back together and we were
Speaker 1: together on the street, you know, and then it felt
Speaker 1: real and then it was, I mean, beyond exciting, and
Speaker 1: we had this huge crowd of people who'd come to watch,
Speaker 1: and it was so much fun, you know, to be
Speaker 1: there and to get to do it and to get
Speaker 1: to keep going. And of course we're still going now
Speaker 1: within just like that, and we never thought that would happen.
Speaker 1: So it's just one of those times where you have
Speaker 1: this wish, this dream that's going to happen, and you've
Speaker 1: talked to everyone about it and everyone seems to share
Speaker 1: the dream, and you're just hoping it'll come together, and
Speaker 1: then when it does, it's a miracle. Every single time
Speaker 1: it's a miracle. So thank you guys for sending in
Speaker 1: questions and please keep them coming. We'll put up a
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Speaker 1: I love to hear what you guys are interested in,
Speaker 1: and we'll try to do another question and answer soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Fine