Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
Speaker 1: you a Charlotte? Hi? Everybody, We're going to do another
Speaker 1: episode of Give Me Your Question, So here we go.
Speaker 1: The first thing that I wanted to talk about was,
Speaker 1: this is just kind of a bizarre thing that has
Speaker 1: been happening since we started this podcast. So in my mind,
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I'd love to rewatch Sex and
Speaker 1: the City because I haven't ever rewatched it, right, And
Speaker 1: that'll be super interesting because it was a long, long
Speaker 1: time ago, almost thirty years ago, and I really had
Speaker 1: no idea that people were going to be paying so
Speaker 1: much attention to what I said. So there's been these
Speaker 1: crazy headlines and my mother has called me and asked
Speaker 1: me about them because her friends talked to her about them,
Speaker 1: and it's just been a little bit overwhelming, I have
Speaker 1: to say. And I just thought, you know what this is,
Speaker 1: like thirty years ago, I did not think anybody was
Speaker 1: going to care. I mean, I thought the fans would care,
Speaker 1: and you guys do care, thank goodness. And I feel
Speaker 1: like you guys know the truth of what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But sometimes I see these headlines and I do get
Speaker 1: a little concerned about people who maybe see the headlines
Speaker 1: but don't necessarily listen to the podcast, that they might
Speaker 1: not have the right understanding of what I was saying.
Speaker 1: So just some of the weird ones, you know what
Speaker 1: I said, I said the cult like rules. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I said rules, but I definitely said the
Speaker 1: word cult. And of course that, of course is a
Speaker 1: headline now that the producers forced us to do things.
Speaker 1: This is so not the case, you guys, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: This was that pat Field have a very strong vision
Speaker 1: and that's what we love about pat Field, and that's
Speaker 1: why we hired pat Field. And my fashion sense was like, uh, nonexistent, right,
Speaker 1: So I was just really happy to be told what
Speaker 1: was cool and what was in It wasn't rules. The
Speaker 1: producers didn't care one way or the other. I mean,
Speaker 1: they cared that the show looked great, but I mean
Speaker 1: I don't think they cared about the specifics of you know,
Speaker 1: how we made it look great or whatever. They were
Speaker 1: not involved, so there was no producers making us do
Speaker 1: any rules or whatever. Anyway. That's one. Then the other
Speaker 1: is you know, the whole you know, horrible mistake I
Speaker 1: made about saying the word forced when I was laughing
Speaker 1: about Michael Patrick and me having to flash my boob
Speaker 1: in the year two thousand, so I laugh. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't ever want one of my good friends to get
Speaker 1: hurt because of something stupid that I said. And that's
Speaker 1: what I feel like happened because I said a word
Speaker 1: that they could take out of context, and they did,
Speaker 1: and you guys on the social media really cheered me up.
Speaker 1: But once I went on the Today Show because you
Speaker 1: were like took Kristin out of context, and I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that. And I don't know if you're aware, but
Speaker 1: sometimes when you look at comments, it can be dark,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it can really make you feel so much better.
Speaker 1: And that's what you guys do for me on my
Speaker 1: Instagram page and on the podcast Instagram page, and think
Speaker 1: you keep it coming because sometimes I really really need it.
Speaker 1: And then also people still want to talk about this
Speaker 1: poor actor that I lend money to, and again I
Speaker 1: really really just wanted to say, don't lend money to
Speaker 1: people that you're involved with. That was my only point,
Speaker 1: Like it just changes the dynamic. It makes it kind
Speaker 1: of weird, or it has the potential at least to
Speaker 1: make it kind of weird, and I never will say
Speaker 1: this person's name, and I feel really badly that I
Speaker 1: even opened that box up. So those are the ones
Speaker 1: that come to mind. But honestly, just in general, the
Speaker 1: whole idea that people are like, uh, creating these headlines
Speaker 1: is still I'm just trying to get my mind around
Speaker 1: it because I just thought we could just talk freely,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I do feel with
Speaker 1: you guys that are listening that I am just talking freely,
Speaker 1: and I'm really trying to keep that going. I just
Speaker 1: don't want any of my friends to get hurt, you know. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's the end of that. Now we have some
Speaker 1: other questions from people on our I think from our
Speaker 1: instagram is that right?
Speaker 2: Easton is here, Hi, Christin, this is so fun. Thank
Speaker 2: you for having me back, Thanks for coming back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: these coming from Instagram Carrier Pigeon. People are just being
Speaker 2: in on the door.
Speaker 1: Yelling say, I'm glad you were there to listen to
Speaker 1: what the head I.
Speaker 2: Wrote everything down on my stenopad. So we're so excited
Speaker 2: for season three even just like that, I am part
Speaker 2: of the horde that is so excited.
Speaker 1: About the show's nice.
Speaker 2: So a lot of these questions are about and just
Speaker 2: like that, this person says, seeing the trailer got me
Speaker 2: so excited for and just like that, we see you
Speaker 2: say owed to Aiden's postcard to carry in the trailer.
Speaker 2: Do you support Aiden's five year rule and even Carrie
Speaker 2: for waiting for him?
Speaker 1: I know, isn't that a funny little thing? Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I do not support that, me, Kristen, but Charlotte probably
Speaker 1: does because you know, for Charlotte, she's just always optimistic.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, when you've had this long
Speaker 1: history which Aiden and Carrie have had, and obviously Charlotte
Speaker 1: believes in love, and Charlotte was pro Big as we know,
Speaker 1: but Big is not here anymore, sadly, and that was
Speaker 1: obviously really hard for Charlotte also to watch Carrie go through.
Speaker 1: So I think that Charlotte would want Carrie to have love,
Speaker 1: and if Carrie tells her that that's what Aiden, I
Speaker 1: think Charlotte is going to support that because that's the
Speaker 1: kind of friend that Charlotte is, and I support Charlotte
Speaker 1: being that kind of friend. Me personally, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's kind of complicated and I'm not sure, So let
Speaker 1: me just say, let me just say that I really
Speaker 1: love this season and I hope that everybody else does.
Speaker 1: And it's super interesting writing Like what they wrote I
Speaker 1: think is very good. I really really looked forward every
Speaker 1: week to seeing what they wrote and watching Sarah Jessica
Speaker 1: at the read throughs, and I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: the finished product. I haven't seen anything yet. A little
Speaker 1: in the trailer interesting, yeah, I mean I've seen tiny
Speaker 1: bits and pieces when I had to go do adr,
Speaker 1: which is like, you know, the.
Speaker 2: National Dialogue recording, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Of course she knows that was fast man, you're on it.
Speaker 1: We also call it looping, right, yes, so when I
Speaker 1: had to go do that, I've seen tiny bits and
Speaker 1: pieces like but the whole trailer was more than I
Speaker 1: have seen. So I also was just like, what, I've
Speaker 1: got to watch this again. So that was exciting to
Speaker 1: get to see other people watching it as well and
Speaker 1: obviously weighing in with all of their thoughts and opinions,
Speaker 1: and some of them are very strong. But we love
Speaker 1: that also, like I mean, no offense, but we're not
Speaker 1: twenty right, do you know what I mean? It's like,
Speaker 1: why like five years.
Speaker 2: It's a long time, very long time.
Speaker 1: Very long time to wait. So I agree, but I
Speaker 1: also feel like it's very hard to be you know,
Speaker 1: you're never really in someone's relationship, right, you don't really know.
Speaker 1: And I also do feel like Carrie really believes in love.
Speaker 2: She does.
Speaker 1: Eass he's worn out, you guys, He's like, oh god,
Speaker 1: she does it? Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 2: This question comes from me. I'm putting it to the
Speaker 2: top of the pile. So I really enjoyed Carrie's podcast
Speaker 2: subplot as someone in the business. That was something I
Speaker 2: loved in season one.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you loved it. Wasn't that a nice studio.
Speaker 2: It was a great studio. They had real microphones, there
Speaker 2: was a for real set. Yeah, it was awesome. So,
Speaker 2: you know, spoiler alert, the podcast goes away, Carrie starts
Speaker 2: her own at the end of season two or something.
Speaker 1: It seemed to last.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I was curious. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: timeline is in terms of you filming if you had
Speaker 2: started your podcast yet.
Speaker 1: No, okay, I hadn't. We were working when the idea
Speaker 1: came to me, and I was really excited and also nervous,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I might add rightly, so no, that
Speaker 1: we're in it but I was very much feeling like
Speaker 1: I needed to go check in with Michael Patrick and
Speaker 1: Sir Jessica about it. So I talked to everyone on
Speaker 1: the phone. I had a really great talk with Amy Sugarman,
Speaker 1: our executive producer, and she's a super fan and really
Speaker 1: blew me off my feet, you know. But then I thought,
Speaker 1: I've really got to make sure that everybody feels good
Speaker 1: about this, because I only want to do it if
Speaker 1: everyone feels good about this. So I think I which
Speaker 1: one did I go to first? I think I went
Speaker 1: to Sir Juska first, and she immediately was on board
Speaker 1: and really supportive and very cheerleadery. Then I went to
Speaker 1: Michael Patrick. He had done last year the writer's podcast
Speaker 1: that was on the Max podcast exactly, the Companion podcast,
Speaker 1: which was very much about the writer's room and the
Speaker 1: writer's process, and it was great, but it was very compelling. Yeah, good,
Speaker 1: thank you. I mean I didn't want to like tread
Speaker 1: on his area or whatever. He one percent was on it. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we're rewatching sex in the City, not and just like
Speaker 1: that that we do mention it obviously, but he came
Speaker 1: up with the title are you a Charlotte Like two
Speaker 1: sentences into my explanation, you know, very hardcore supporter and
Speaker 1: Cynthia was very low key. Cynthia and I almost did
Speaker 1: a podcast many years ago, whoa like right after I know,
Speaker 1: this is the third podcast that's been brought to me.
Speaker 1: And it was just weird timing too, I think, and like,
Speaker 1: in some ways I just didn't have my mind back
Speaker 1: around it. The podcast this Cynthia and I were going
Speaker 1: to do, then Willie and I were going to do,
Speaker 1: which was all before and just like that got Greenlitz.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: And I think it was different to think about reflecting
Speaker 1: back on the work without us also getting to make
Speaker 1: fresh work. And I think somehow getting to reconvene and
Speaker 1: be together gave me kind of the grounding to be
Speaker 1: able to look back and not just feel like I
Speaker 1: was living in the past. Yeah, because that had been
Speaker 1: my fear. But I don't feel like that at all,
Speaker 1: because obviously things are so different. You know, it's it
Speaker 1: is like looking at a time capsule, you know, it's
Speaker 1: really interesting. So we were towards the end, we were
Speaker 1: almost done, and I just went to them and they
Speaker 1: were immediately on board. So then I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: goo let's go.
Speaker 2: I was wondering, like if you had been doing it,
Speaker 2: and then like, there's a podcast thing in the in
Speaker 2: the scripture setting. I'm like, well, that's not how it's
Speaker 2: actually done, you know, because I have a podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh I would never. First of all, I think everyone
Speaker 1: at this point has been on a bunch of podcasts,
Speaker 1: and Bobby Lee has a podcast. Yes, And you know,
Speaker 1: the thing that I think was funny was that when
Speaker 1: we saw the set, we were like, this is the
Speaker 1: most glamorous podcast that we have ever seen. Like who
Speaker 1: gets this? Yes, and obviously not me, but we are
Speaker 1: now in a very glamorous screen room. So you guys,
Speaker 1: you guys are you guys are moving us up the day?
Speaker 2: Okay, great, this question comes in from someone. It was
Speaker 2: mentioned if you asked this question, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I will not be named. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: It was mentioned earlier in your episode with Michael Patrick
Speaker 2: that the writers intentionally didn't have anyone from the girls
Speaker 2: families an outside world come into the story. But for fun,
Speaker 2: what do you think Charlotte's life was like growing up?
Speaker 1: That's cute. I do think it. Also in this finale,
Speaker 1: don't I mention something about Sororities. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: she went to Smith We know this. I think she
Speaker 1: was in Sororities. I think I say it. We know
Speaker 1: she was a teen polo model at the mall. I
Speaker 1: believe somewhere. I feel like maybe I made this up
Speaker 1: that she grew up in Connecticut, which I think makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I made it up.
Speaker 2: Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you are you googling?
Speaker 2: I'm googling. I have a computer in front of me.
Speaker 1: Are you seeing anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Really raised in Connecticut. I don't know the exact
Speaker 2: city or township.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't think I know, so I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised the Google doesn't know. If I don't know.
Speaker 2: Here we go early life. We should have gone a
Speaker 2: Young Charlotte show on HBO. That should have happened. Wealthy
Speaker 2: family in Connecticut. She was a member of Kappa Kappa
Speaker 2: Gamma Sorority. Oh my gosh. Let's see she's the newest
Speaker 2: friend of the group.
Speaker 1: That is true because they have a flashback to the
Speaker 1: eighties and I'm not there. That's when Carrie wears that
Speaker 1: pink cowboy hat. Yeah, there are some kind of a
Speaker 1: like it looks like a college party, but I'm not there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're in college or not.
Speaker 2: But yeah, in the second movie, they confirmed that you
Speaker 2: met Carrie in nineteen eighty seven. Oh well, okay, only
Speaker 2: at the most a year before Samantha. Okay, now things
Speaker 2: are getting kind.
Speaker 1: Of iffy meshed up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that means there's a blank slate for what early.
Speaker 1: Because I think we've now you know, done our due
Speaker 1: diligence on trying to figure out the roots of Charlotte,
Speaker 1: and you know, that has been like a side thing
Speaker 1: of the podcast that has really been so helpful for me,
Speaker 1: because we've gotten confirmation from Kendice Bushnell that she was
Speaker 1: not based on anyone in particular. We've gotten confirmation from
Speaker 1: Michael Patrick that when he first got there, he thought,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to write for that character. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've gotten a lot of interesting confirmations of what I
Speaker 1: was feeling at the time, which was that she didn't
Speaker 1: have kind of the same fleshed out storylines that the
Speaker 1: others had, and I had a lot of anxiety about that.
Speaker 1: And now I have a lot less anxiety. Obviously it's
Speaker 1: thirty years later, but also because now I know that
Speaker 1: no that was all actually real and they just created
Speaker 1: me as we went Which what a lucky person I am,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, what a fantastic situation
Speaker 1: to find yourself in. Slightly scary at the time, because
Speaker 1: when you've been an out of work actor for like
Speaker 1: roughly a decade, you know, a little bit less than
Speaker 1: a decade, you know, you're very vulnerable about it, all right,
Speaker 1: and you want to make sure you have a place
Speaker 1: a place in this thing that you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of, which I did feel on the set, right,
Speaker 1: But when I would go home and think about, like,
Speaker 1: who is Charlotte, I don't know, because they didn't know,
Speaker 1: you know, so you know, you're kind of making it
Speaker 1: up as you go. And then as we found out
Speaker 1: from Jenny Biks, Jenny Bicks grew up on the Upper
Speaker 1: East Side, So when Jenny Bicks came, I feel like
Speaker 1: Charlotte got a lot more kind of depth and grounding
Speaker 1: in the world that we were in because Jenny brought that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking about as an actor, you obviously
Speaker 2: want more as much information as possible about the character,
Speaker 2: but like if you get like a Bible or something
Speaker 2: of their whole entire life. That must be intimidating too,
Speaker 2: to make sure you.
Speaker 1: First of all, it never happens. Second of all, I mean,
Speaker 1: I do know actors that create that bible, and they
Speaker 1: might depending on the situation, they might create it by themselves,
Speaker 1: or they might create it with an acting teacher, acting coach,
Speaker 1: or if they're really close to the showrunner or the writers,
Speaker 1: they might create it together. But it's a rare thing,
Speaker 1: and I think with us, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: well asked Sir Jessica if she did that. I don't
Speaker 1: think she did that. But I think that Sarah Jessica
Speaker 1: already because she was in New Yorker and she really
Speaker 1: was an it girl. She was a downtown it girl,
Speaker 1: which was a little bit different than Candace's version of
Speaker 1: the it girl. But she knew kind of the vibe.
Speaker 1: You don't know, I'm saying she knew who these people
Speaker 1: were just from being in the Manhattan like nightlife, you know,
Speaker 1: the I don't know if she would describe it that way,
Speaker 1: but you don't. We'll ask her when we see her
Speaker 1: next week. But I think that she already had such
Speaker 1: a grounded sense of who they were and how they
Speaker 1: dressed and what they did. I so didn't have any
Speaker 1: of that. Like I had lived in New York already,
Speaker 1: but I was an out of work actor waitress, very
Speaker 1: very different life, very very different life. So part of
Speaker 1: me I was just like, how do I do this?
Speaker 1: What do I do? What do I do? And in
Speaker 1: my mind and this is what you do as an actor.
Speaker 1: You create the backstory that you need that helps you
Speaker 1: to understand who they were. So as I think I've said,
Speaker 1: I would just go up to the Upper east Side
Speaker 1: and I would just walk around the shops, walk up
Speaker 1: and down Madison Avenue and look at the women and
Speaker 1: look at their hair. Most of them had baby carriages,
Speaker 1: some of them didn't. I'd look at their coats, I'd
Speaker 1: look at their bags and try to look at how
Speaker 1: they walked and talked and if they were talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: You know, you're trying to pick up details and then
Speaker 1: you're making the facts up in your mind to back
Speaker 1: up those details. Did that make sense? Yes?
Speaker 2: And I'm picturing you like walking over down in Massive Avenue,
Speaker 2: like write, like with like a notebook or something else.
Speaker 2: Seems like something Charlotte would do.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a note because I'm a visual memorizer,
Speaker 1: so I would have snapshots. I have snapshots when I
Speaker 1: tell you about it. Wow, still in my mind of
Speaker 1: what I saw then, which is why I was trying
Speaker 1: to get her to grow her hair out and they
Speaker 1: had made me cut it. But you can see the
Speaker 1: progression during the first season. I'm like, look, it's getting better.
Speaker 1: It's getting better. It's almost of the place I want it.
Speaker 2: Uh. This next question I love because I my New York.
Speaker 2: I grew up on the West coast of my New
Speaker 2: York like knowledge was Sex and the City and Seinfeld
Speaker 2: that was it, you know.
Speaker 1: And so different, so different.
Speaker 2: But I was like, oh, Seinfeld's little cartoon version Sex
Speaker 2: and City is what are It's really like?
Speaker 1: This question is so sorry.
Speaker 2: Do you think Sex and the City shows a realistic
Speaker 2: depiction of life in Manhattan?
Speaker 1: No? No, unfortunately No. I mean I think it did
Speaker 1: for this tiny group of women, right, because it was
Speaker 1: based on some real people. And as Candice told us
Speaker 1: at one point when she was writing the column Sex
Speaker 1: and the City that was in the New York Observer,
Speaker 1: she was living in a doorman building, so she was
Speaker 1: obviously doing well. I mean, I didn't have the thought
Speaker 1: to ask her, like, were your parents helping you or whatever?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's possible, right, I don't know
Speaker 1: that or not to be true, but I do think
Speaker 1: that a lot of these people came from generational wealth
Speaker 1: and were thus at a certain point in New York
Speaker 1: society that would come with generational wealth. But we don't
Speaker 1: really say that in the show either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean interesting because like Samantha can afford
Speaker 2: like I don't have a doubt that can afford her life.
Speaker 1: Well, she was her own pr lawyer.
Speaker 2: A lawyer trying to be a partner carries the baffling one.
Speaker 1: Well, carries the baffling one, and this will become an
Speaker 1: issue as we know, right, carries the baffling one. And Charlotte,
Speaker 1: I do think that in my mind she was supported
Speaker 1: by her parents. You know that because all of well
Speaker 1: at the time, at least the beautiful young girls who
Speaker 1: were working at the galleries were all supported by the parents.
Speaker 1: Because you couldn't really be like kind of an assistant
Speaker 1: at an art gallery and make a living, like it's
Speaker 1: a tough kind of a job. But yet there are
Speaker 1: there are still gorgeous young people, men and women who
Speaker 1: are doing that and I don't know how that we
Speaker 1: should call them up. We should. I should go to
Speaker 1: some art collaries next time in New York. Yes, them
Speaker 1: should do some research. But yeah, I think that that
Speaker 1: there is a assumption that parents were helping, or there
Speaker 1: was trust funds or something. Yeah, but only does never
Speaker 1: mention a trust fund, which I find interesting because I
Speaker 1: always thought there was like some money, but not a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Because once we get to the trade era,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously she wants that apartment, like there's things
Speaker 1: about him that he has that she really loves.
Speaker 2: What do you think Charlotte's attachment style is?
Speaker 1: And there's a lit I looked at this list, ok,
Speaker 1: because my first thing I thought was she's secure, secure attachment,
Speaker 1: because that's definitely where she's at now with Harry. But
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh wait, she was maybe not?
Speaker 1: Maybe not? Then isn't there one there's like anxious attachment.
Speaker 2: Anxious preoccupied attachment? I think probably that that's what I
Speaker 2: would guess too, a style where people have a fear
Speaker 2: of abandonment and a constant need for reassurance.
Speaker 1: Right, But that makes it sound so awful, but I
Speaker 1: just really think that's like human normalness. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's saying a lot about me. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like people, especially when you're younger, you know,
Speaker 1: like because obviously in the first season, Charlotte very much
Speaker 1: like believes in love and wants to get married, and
Speaker 1: she puts that right out there. But she's also kind
Speaker 1: of choosy in an interesting way. But I do feel
Speaker 1: like she definitely wants to know, you know, like, wants
Speaker 1: to be attached and wants affirmation of that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it hard to be objective sometimes.
Speaker 2: It is this question here, what is the process like
Speaker 2: prior to shooting an episode with fittings and thinking out
Speaker 2: the looks for the episodes?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it is a process. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: first of all, as I think you know, we're very, very,
Speaker 1: very spoiled. We have just the most incredible costume department
Speaker 1: and costume designers Mollie Rogers, who I had on that
Speaker 1: was so much fun. And Danny Santiago works with her.
Speaker 1: He's also amazing, and he has like a vintage world
Speaker 1: at his figuertips that you would not believe. And we
Speaker 1: have many and many other people and all through the
Speaker 1: show we had so many people helping and eventually so
Speaker 1: many designers lending us things, which was great. The only
Speaker 1: the only downside is that we spend a lot of
Speaker 1: times in fittings, like like a lot, like a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot like hours and hours. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I think I've had an eight hour fitting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine. I mean it's part of the job. And
Speaker 1: you know, luckily they really make it fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you were trying to do eight hours of like
Speaker 1: suits because you were a lawyer, that would be super boring.
Speaker 1: But because we have this like full fantasy world that
Speaker 1: we're creating, I mean, I am my own character within
Speaker 1: that fancy world, right, so sometimes I walk in the
Speaker 1: other character. They do it by areas, right, so they'll like,
Speaker 1: there'll be an LTW character aisle, and I'll walk down
Speaker 1: that aisle. I'll be like, I want all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I can't have that stuff. I can't even pull that
Speaker 1: stuff off. I mean, she does it, and she does
Speaker 1: it so beautifully, but it's really fun to walk down there.
Speaker 1: Or sometimes I'll go and carry's asle because we have
Speaker 1: the same size put Oh yes, I'll be like, oh
Speaker 1: does she have these slotted for an outfit?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And they'll be like, get out of there, Kristen. You know,
Speaker 1: it's fun. And then sometimes there were times in the
Speaker 1: past where at the end of the season I would
Speaker 1: take home some of Miranda's clothes because they were like
Speaker 1: really wearable every days.
Speaker 2: Yeah they look super comfy.
Speaker 1: Super comfy, nice fabrics, good colors, turtlenecks and things. I
Speaker 1: still wear some of them, but yeah, Samantha's clothes. Couldn't
Speaker 1: pull those off either. But it is fun, but it's
Speaker 1: a lot of work. I remember also when we were
Speaker 1: doing the show, there was never any time for fittings
Speaker 1: because we were working so hard in such long hours.
Speaker 1: And I do remember I might have mentioned this with
Speaker 1: Molly that one time when I wrapped at two am,
Speaker 1: they said, you have to go to your fitting and
Speaker 1: I was like ha ha, and they're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you have to go to your fitting. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you got guys, Oh the pain. But there was just
Speaker 1: no other time to do it, so we did it.
Speaker 1: We did it.
Speaker 2: During the fittings, Like the wardrobe people are there. I
Speaker 2: assume there's a producer someone there. Now no who is
Speaker 2: giving the like who's given the feedback? I guess on
Speaker 2: what you're going to use is it? Like, like, do
Speaker 2: you have any how much? Say do you have as
Speaker 2: the actor? Like, oh, I really like this.
Speaker 1: Well it's our world. We have a lot of say
Speaker 1: yeah good. I mean, as we have for a long time,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean I've always said that we've always
Speaker 1: been very involved in all of it. And I have
Speaker 1: felt that even when we had no title, you know,
Speaker 1: like now we're executive producers of and just like that.
Speaker 1: But we used to not have any title, but it
Speaker 1: didn't mean that we weren't involved. Michael Patrick would sit
Speaker 1: us down before the season started and run through everything
Speaker 1: with us and say what do you think? Like he
Speaker 1: did not have to do that, and he did that,
Speaker 1: which is part of the reason that we have the
Speaker 1: relationship that we do is that I really felt that
Speaker 1: we were respected and considered all the time. But with
Speaker 1: the clothes, I think so pat was very strong, right, like,
Speaker 1: she was very strong, and occasionally she would try to
Speaker 1: talk me into things that I was like, I just
Speaker 1: do not think Charlotte would wear this, and she would
Speaker 1: try for weeks. Okay, sometimes she'd go over my head
Speaker 1: to Darren. I'd be like, Darren, she can't wear it.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't make sense, you know, because Pat's very
Speaker 1: fanciful and doesn't really care about real life, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of the joy. But also sometimes if
Speaker 1: you're playing Charlotte, you kind of gotta care about real
Speaker 1: life a little bit, a little bit. But often sometimes
Speaker 1: too she'd try, she'd say like look at this, and
Speaker 1: you look at it me and be like, god, I
Speaker 1: don't know, and then like over time she'd wear you down,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But it's always a group decision.
Speaker 1: In the fittings. Now we also photograph everything, and we also,
Speaker 1: you know, we're going in the script order, so like
Speaker 1: this is true for all production. I think you have
Speaker 1: the script. Someone in the costume department has done a breakdown,
Speaker 1: so every scene is listed with the description. You know,
Speaker 1: they're at the coffee shop, Charlotte says she's come from work,
Speaker 1: something like that, something very practical, like so that you know,
Speaker 1: if there's something that affects her clothing in the scene,
Speaker 1: right then you know they will have already thought about
Speaker 1: let's say it's a coffee shop scene. Those are the
Speaker 1: hardest because everyone's in it, right yea, So they have
Speaker 1: to think about the colors and the textures and the
Speaker 1: daytime or the nighttime, or the cold or the heat.
Speaker 1: Theoretically it might not match the actual real cold and
Speaker 1: the heat and the real temperatures out in the world, right,
Speaker 1: but in the story, what season is it? And so
Speaker 1: they'll have an idea. Maybe they've done Cynthia's spinning already,
Speaker 1: but they haven't done Sir Jessica's spinning, and they haven't
Speaker 1: done nicoles, and they maybe have done so Rita's right,
Speaker 1: they can show you a picture. Oh, Soerita's wearing, you know,
Speaker 1: cream silk. Cynthia's wearing these bold stripes, so we were
Speaker 1: thinking for you. They'll have pre thought out ideas. So
Speaker 1: they'll have maybe like ten things. They're like separates. There
Speaker 1: were dress or pants or whatever. They'll say like, oh,
Speaker 1: this might be a great time to wear some pants.
Speaker 1: You know, Sharlotte doesn't wear a ton of pants, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: this might be a great time we wear some pants
Speaker 1: because blah blah blah whatever reason, or we found this
Speaker 1: amazing jumpsuit or whatever it is. Right, So they have
Speaker 1: some ideas and then you pick the one you like
Speaker 1: the best. You try it on. It might not fit.
Speaker 1: It might be a color that doesn't work on you. Whatever,
Speaker 1: you move on to the next or maybe you think, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so amazing. Let's put it at this dinner scene,
Speaker 1: which is a little bit more glamorous, and this outfit
Speaker 1: is a little you know, it's like this. And then eventually,
Speaker 1: once you get your picks for each thing slotted in,
Speaker 1: they've photographed everything, They've listed everything. Usually almost everything gets
Speaker 1: to be altered, which you know, I think is an
Speaker 1: important point or super spoiled. But like, that's why it
Speaker 1: all fits us. It's not like if we went to
Speaker 1: the store and pulled things off the shelves that they
Speaker 1: would fit us like that. It would not be true,
Speaker 1: at least for me. I can only speak for myself.
Speaker 1: But our tailoring department is unbelievably talented. Like they do
Speaker 1: so much work, Adrian, thank you. So then their pictures
Speaker 1: slotted in and they make a book. So for each scene,
Speaker 1: let's say that all four of us are five of
Speaker 1: us are in a scene, they'll be every one's picture,
Speaker 1: so you see them together. And then let's say it's
Speaker 1: like Harry and Charlotte. They'll have a picture of Emma
Speaker 1: and I in the outfits. Then Michael Patrick or whoever's directing,
Speaker 1: and Michael Patrick also because he's executive producer, will look
Speaker 1: at it and approve it because maybe the director had
Speaker 1: a vision. Like when Cynthia directed, Cynthia directed, and I
Speaker 1: can't remember if we talked about this or not. Cynthia directed,
Speaker 1: I want to say the second season when she directed,
Speaker 1: and the really funny thing where I was in my
Speaker 1: fitting and she just walked by the door because our
Speaker 1: production offices are upstairs and our fittings in the second floor.
Speaker 1: She walked by the door and she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're in here, and I was like yes. So she
Speaker 1: was like, let's see. Let's see it, and I was
Speaker 1: like okay. And she said, you know, in this particular scene,
Speaker 1: I just really pictured you like a fawn. And I
Speaker 1: was like, you mean like like a deer. Yes, Like
Speaker 1: you know, like a doied fawn. I was like okay,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Then we're like what does that mean?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? When she left the room and
Speaker 1: we got out like a kind of a faun card
Speaker 1: and I pulled my hair back and I kind of
Speaker 1: put on really long eyelashes.
Speaker 2: She tried to like be like Bambi herself.
Speaker 1: Right, I was going for bamby.
Speaker 2: The constant professional Kristen Davis. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: answering these questions.
Speaker 1: It's easy. Thank you Easton for delivering them such a
Speaker 1: lovely way.
Speaker 2: Is my honor.
Speaker 1: This has been so much fun, it is fun. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you everyone for listening.