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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know, are

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Speaker 1: you a Charlotte. This is a very very very exciting time,

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Speaker 1: you guys, because today we have an incredible I call

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Speaker 1: Arna Parker.

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Speaker 2: With a here are you as Charlotte? And we may cry.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just going to tell you right now ocause

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Speaker 1: it might cry. Yes, because what happened was this. I

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Speaker 1: was at camp with my kids last week in Oregon,

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Speaker 1: h and I did know that our announcement was coming.

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Speaker 1: We had a little bit, a little bit of notice, yes,

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Speaker 1: and we hadn't all talked about it.

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Speaker 2: And I was in Oregon, and I thought, I need

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Speaker 2: to call Nicole because I'll feel like you're my You're

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Speaker 2: my person.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: And I was worried.

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Speaker 1: We had already scheduled this, and I didn't know if

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Speaker 1: you would want to come talk, if.

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Speaker 2: It would be too soon.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to think about your feelings.

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Speaker 1: And so I tried to call you, and I thought

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Speaker 1: I thought I was fine, and then I just I

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Speaker 1: voicemail didn't record this is what I'm hoping, or a

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Speaker 1: different Nicole from my past might have a sobbing, sobbing

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Speaker 1: phone call. I'm not sure which, because when I saw

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Speaker 1: the cold today, I said, I'm so sorry I left

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Speaker 1: you that message because then I.

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Speaker 3: Felt what message? Well, and she said what message?

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Speaker 2: So she didn't get it.

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Speaker 3: You guys get one single.

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Speaker 1: It was literally like an ugly cry sobbing situation because

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Speaker 1: you know, the feelings aren't really together yet.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you're feeling.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I I got very attached to you

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Speaker 3: you and I and everything, and I just feel at

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Speaker 3: the same time grateful and sad because you're legendary and

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Speaker 3: the show was legendary, and I'm just grateful I got

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Speaker 3: to be a part of it and get to know you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you, for me were like the bright

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Speaker 1: I mean, all of us have been together for so

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Speaker 1: got you and Serena and do you remember our first

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Speaker 1: I was the first one up when we came back

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Speaker 1: after COVID obviously hadn't been together. So the thing that

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Speaker 1: as much as the show is ending, they say, I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to believe them, I can't. I don't feel it

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Speaker 2: This is just who I am.

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Speaker 1: But I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying to believe it.

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Speaker 1: But we're all still in each other's lives. So as

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Speaker 2: But it's not like I hadn't seen everybody, you know.

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Speaker 1: Of course I see everybody in different ways in different places,

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Speaker 2: And you've got your documentary do you remember this?

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Speaker 3: and you guys have nailed it and cemented that lovely

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Speaker 3: And I'm standing and I'm getting touched up, and I'm

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Speaker 1: That was a good day. The thing that I remember

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Speaker 3: I was like, this can't be. I know, I know.

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Speaker 1: And my scene was that monologue about you, because I'm

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Please, there's something I don't know that I'm not I'm

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Speaker 1: This is how you feel the whole job, whether you've

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Speaker 1: And I mean, this is how I feel a lot

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Speaker 1: that you've already watched, you know, like, yes, where would

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Speaker 1: you rank that in terms of like on your mind

441
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 1: when you came do you know what I'm saying? Like

442
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: it was a different show obviously, but yet kind of similar.

443
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Speaker 3: I was excited got it, you know, it was it

444
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 3: was half professional, half fangirl. That's good, you know, Like

445
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 3: I wanted to calm do my best. Yes, I felt

446
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 3: lucky and honored to be a part of it. But

447
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 3: I was also the first couple of episodes just a

448
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 3: little starstruck, you know. And I'm a grown up, seasoned

449
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 3: actor and I was still a little like, oh my god.

450
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 2: You didn't see it? You didn't seemen at all. You

451
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 2: were fun. You were fun right away, you know, as

452
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 2: was so Rita.

453
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 3: But the two of you are.

454
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 2: Like so chill, you know what I mean, you really are,

455
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 2: Like I felt like it was just seamless.

456
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 3: Wow, I did.

457
00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 2: I really did? I mean I did? I did?

458
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: You know, obviously the whole whole costume situation.

459
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, whoa, what on earth? Oh my gosh,

460
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 2: she can pull this off?

461
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 1: And whoa, it's incredible. But you were just like a breeze,

462
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 1: you know, like the Valentino moment. I mean like they

463
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: showed me when the head piece arrived at.

464
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 3: Costume remember that day. Yeah, I was like, I was like,

465
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 3: people in the back, it is a full crate, a

466
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 3: full crate of this incredible.

467
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have seen the image, but if not,

468
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: we'll put it on the social media. It's an incredible

469
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: headpiece that covered her face.

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00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 2: Okay. I was like, what it was.

471
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 3: Like silence of the lambs under there? Yeah, like full

472
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 3: the Philip trecy made. It was on the the you know,

473
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 3: in Rome, the fashion show in Rome. It was just premiered, right.

474
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 3: I was so scared.

475
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: I was like, don't mean nicole wear this, but did

476
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: you not only wear it, you like run down Fifth

477
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: Avenue in that thing. I mean, it was incredible. We

478
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 1: could not have cast you better ever, and our wildest dream.

479
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 2: You're just a dream Nicole, you really are.

480
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 3: I think it took like fifty years for me to

481
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 3: be who I was when I was like a little girl.

482
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 3: You know, my mom had bracelets and scars in the

483
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:23,199
Speaker 3: seventies and Diana Ross in mahogany outfits, and so I

484
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 3: would play in those clothes. But I also went to

485
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 3: a private school, so I wore uniforms my whole life,

486
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 3: like second to twelfth grade. And so here I was

487
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 3: as an adult, and so I played lawyers and I

488
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 3: was very cool together and I was like finally, oh

489
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 3: you know, I love it.

490
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 1: Oh there's no better place to play in our world. Yeah,

491
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: as the others.

492
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 3: Had, and you know the wardrobe also, Molly and Danny,

493
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 3: they did a lot of kind of feeling research, like

494
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 3: what they wanted to feel like, So the funerals, see

495
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 3: for example that you know it was Coreta Scott King

496
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 3: and Jackie o at their husband's funeral, doctor King's funeral,

497
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 3: and they really knew the historic power and a lot

498
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 3: of the clothes that I was wearing absolutely and were

499
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 3: very intentional about that, absolutely, and that just made me

500
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 3: even more comfortable. So when she had to be two bags,

501
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 3: I was like, I trust you, girl. I know Cleo

502
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 3: Patrick must have done.

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Speaker 1: This absolutely absolutely, and yes you should play.

504
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what a great idea. We're never TD.

505
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 2: I know.

506
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 3: The creativity just starts to bowl.

507
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: I know. I love it all right, is there anything

508
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: else you want to talk about before we move on?

509
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 1: It's fun.

510
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 2: It's so much fun. You're just so easy and joyful.

511
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 2: I feel like you have just so much joy in

512
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 2: everything you do.

513
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:53,959
Speaker 3: Thank you.

514
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 2: I really do remember when we were running around doing.

515
00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 1: That press, you just had so much joys.

516
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 3: I was exhausted like you were. Yeah, it was People

517
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 3: don't realize. It was like forty seven interviews in one day, and.

518
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 2: Like every four minutes, every four minutes, four minutes.

519
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 3: It's hard and in heels and lashes, and I would

520
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 3: look over at you and just be like, she's amazing.

521
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 2: And that's what I thought about you. You're amazing and

522
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 2: so incredibly chic.

523
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 3: Thank you. And for people who don't know, like it

524
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 3: takes a lot for Kristen to say that's enough, And

525
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 3: this girl would be like beat down, cannot even say

526
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 3: another word before she would say, can I just get

527
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 3: a glass of water? Just give me a minute?

528
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: That's true too. Every once in a while, I do

529
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: you have to remind myself that it's.

530
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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, ask for a break.

531
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because I think we're both really good

532
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: girls as much as we're also grown women.

533
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 2: Yes, And I love that about you.

534
00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: And I feel like that also was like kind of

535
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: a really special meeting place for LTW and Charlotte, you know,

536
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: like we had that kind of similar DNA.

537
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, at the same time, we have to.

538
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: Be there for each other, Like it's okay to say

539
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: it's hard to climb these rafters or whatever the heck, Yeah, you.

540
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.

541
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: It's okay to say that when you're getting up in

542
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: your extremely structured couture skirt at the funeral after sitting

543
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: on it for five hours or whatever it was, that

544
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: can we have a moment to fix ourselves?

545
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 3: Yes, you know what I mean. And you would just

546
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 3: get a little bite of a sandwich, can I be like,

547
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 3: what do you do? You would get your lash fixed?

548
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 3: Be like okay, now I'm ready.

549
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 2: It's so true.

550
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: It's true.

551
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 2: It's such an interesting thing.

552
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: And I think it's an interesting thing about being a

553
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 1: woman where you just feel like you're supposed to be

554
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: all put together at all times, no matter what you know,

555
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: and and that it's okay not to be you know. Yeah,

556
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: And I also think this. I saw this other thing

557
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: and I wanted to ask you your thoughts on it.

558
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: I was looking at the press about the end of

559
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: the show, which is quite interesting.

560
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: I know, right, so interesting, so.

561
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: Interesting, and I'm collecting some ideas of how to talk

562
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: about it on the podcast.

563
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 2: Maybe some I have some experts on.

564
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: Someone wrote in The Atlantic a really interesting article about

565
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: the lack of true dialogue in our social media kind

566
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: of world that is more just like shouting at each

567
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: other and not actually deeply looking at something, which is interesting.

568
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: And also there's interesting thoughts and ideas about the parasocial

569
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 1: relationship that people have with actors and celebrities and the

570
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: projections and the amount of projection and kind of losing

571
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: the limits of you know.

572
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 3: And the safety of being able to project and have

573
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 3: no reciprocation. I can just throw right tomato sauce on

574
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 3: these people, right, whatever.

575
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm feeling that day, right, because it literally took hours

576
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: of us saying that the show is ending for people

577
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: to be writing love letters to it, the people who

578
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: had previously been very angry or whatever perceived misstep we

579
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: had made in their mind or whatever.

580
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 2: It was really amazing.

581
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: So when I'm looking through the list of all the

582
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: different articles, I see this one and it says the

583
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: erasure of Charlotte Yorke And.

584
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, wait, what who who erased me?

585
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 3: What?

586
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 2: What? What? What?

587
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 3: What?

588
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: And I read the article and it was by kind

589
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: of a fashion magazine or digital magazine, I think, and

590
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: it basically said number one that when I started, this

591
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: is almost thirty years ago. When I started, I had

592
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: frills in my clothing and where were they?

593
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: Okay, that's thirty years ago. Do we not want to

594
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 2: change and grow a little bit?

595
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: Like Charlotte has stayed pretty.

596
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 2: True to her fashion sense, what is thirty years later.

597
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: I don't really think I need any more frills that

598
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: I already have.

599
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 3: People I have traverse the frill landscape right thoroughly right, And.

600
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: If I were wearing frills, I think they'd be complaining

601
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: about that. And then the second thing they complained about

602
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: in this article involves you, which is why I wanted

603
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on it. Remember the scene where

604
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: we're walking, it was one of the last ones we filmed.

605
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: We're walking and talking about your flirtation at work. You're

606
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: flirting and you're kind of telling me about it because

607
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: you can't really talk about it. You're feeling a lot

608
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: of guilt even though you've done nothing with your flirtation

609
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: at work. But you're feeling bad because you have a

610
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: great marriage, right and you obviously your marriage is incredibly

611
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: important to you, and so you're talking to your friend

612
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: about your You know, I feel so uncomfortable about these

613
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: thoughts and dreams that I had. I think you had

614
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: a dream, right, So and I say something to you, like,

615
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, you have a connection at work, and isn't

616
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: this what we want?

617
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 2: You're in a creative job and you have a creative

618
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: connection at work.

619
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Speaker 1: So the person writing this article was all upset. You know,

620
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: Charlotte Yorke would never say that. Charlotte Yorke would look

621
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: down on that. Charlotte Yorke would not be supporting that.

622
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: That's not Charlotte Yorke, right, like, very adamant and to me,

623
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: I think that's insane, because why wouldn't there be some

624
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: growth in Charlotte that she would be less judgmental than

625
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: she might have been thirty years ago. And also, you're

626
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: coming to me for you know, like reassurance and compassion

627
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: and empathy, not judgment.

628
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: Why would I judge you?

629
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: You're not going to do anything, and I know you're

630
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,959
Speaker 1: not going to do anything, So I'm trying to make

631
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: you feel better about your own thoughts.

632
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 2: Could you already feel so bad?

633
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, I thought that that was such good writing

634
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 3: because it showed that, like exactly what you said, that

635
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 3: these two women are actual friends in the sense that

636
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 3: they really care about the choices they're about to make.

637
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 3: And then for you to say that was kind of

638
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 3: like honoring the morality of Charlotte by putting this attraction

639
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 3: in perspective like this is just a creative space that

640
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 3: gets the feelings going, but it's just a creative space.

641
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 3: I thought that was like the most wholesome thing you

642
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: could say to your friend and bring all of that

643
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 3: fire down in your friend and don't ruin your marriage right,

644
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,719
Speaker 3: and don't overblow it right, and just isn't that crazy?

645
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 3: It's crazy? But I think when I hear that, you know,

646
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 3: I think it was more about the writer, right that, Right, that.

647
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like that at the time clickbait headline the

648
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: erasure of Charlotte Yorke And then you actually read it

649
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh what, I don't agree with anything.

650
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,239
Speaker 1: This person is saying, no offense to you, whoever you are.

651
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't remember your name, but it just goes to

652
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: show that, like I feel like we're in the craziest time.

653
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: I know, behave myself behaved, Christen, it's a crazy time.

654
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: It's really just what I want to say, where like

655
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: it's like the forest or lost for the trees or

656
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: whatever that phrase is.

657
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 2: Yes, you can't see the forest for the tree.

658
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 3: You can't see the forest for there.

659
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 2: I feel like it's like that, do you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like the nit picking, nit picking, nip picking where you

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Speaker 1: don't even know the whole what's coming.

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Speaker 3: It reminds me of all of the family in a way.

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Speaker 3: Archie Bunker was representing a voice and they let him

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Speaker 3: say those things on the show, and then when the

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Speaker 3: Jeffersons were their neighbors before they had their spin off,

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Speaker 3: and every now and then Archie Bunker would have a

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Speaker 3: moment of kindness or clarity or open to thoughts, and

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Speaker 3: I read somewhere that people would get outraged that he

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Speaker 3: still wasn't like bam bam bam. And but what as

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Speaker 3: a kid watching that, I was like, I was warmed

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Speaker 3: by those moments, the complexity and the complexity of even

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Speaker 3: if my young brain couldn't process it, I was like, oh, right,

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Speaker 3: that's the right thing to say, you know, and childlike mine.

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Speaker 3: And that's how I felt about that scene.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And you know what a wonderful thing though that people

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Speaker 3: responded to that we didn't even realize was our scene

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Speaker 3: in the pool. Oh. I got hundreds and hundreds of

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Speaker 3: comments about every aspect of that scene, the silence between us,

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Speaker 3: the the fact, I mean people saw our race in

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Speaker 3: that scene, and that how simple two women can be friends,

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Speaker 3: and that all the differences in them, yeah don't matter

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Speaker 3: when friends are friends. Yeah, I got just expose A's

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Speaker 3: on it.

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Speaker 2: Amazing And it was just see that we.

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Speaker 3: Both were like, don't fill my butt totally and I'm

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Speaker 3: bathing it's a hundred up to our neck exactly.

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Speaker 1: That's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the power.

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Speaker 1: That's the power of film, I think, you know, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes we forget about the power and the little things.

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Speaker 1: That's that's really well put and I'm glad that you

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Speaker 1: got that. And I also it just gives me faith

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Speaker 1: in the human race, you know, that they.

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Speaker 2: Can see good things, you know, right, Yeah

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Speaker 1: You guys, this is so much fun that we're going

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Speaker 1: to have to have a part two, so join us

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Speaker 1: later in the week on are You a Charlotte