Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
Speaker 1: you a Charlotte? Hello everybody. I hope you guys are
Speaker 1: having a great day. I was just going to do
Speaker 1: just a little episode about this really really fun event
Speaker 1: that we got to do this week for Sarah Jessica.
Speaker 1: It's a brand new thing that the Golden Globes are
Speaker 1: doing where they do an evening before the Golden Globes
Speaker 1: called Golden Eve and they give out two awards, and
Speaker 1: the award Sir Jessica got is the Carol Burnett It's
Speaker 1: basically a Lifetime Achievement Award in comedy. And then also
Speaker 1: Dame Helen Mirren was getting this Cecil B. Demill Award,
Speaker 1: which is basically a lifetime Achievement Award in film. So
Speaker 1: they did a whole special dinner, a special evening for
Speaker 1: these two awards and we got to have a bit
Speaker 1: of a reunion. We were missing Cynthia because she's on Broadway.
Speaker 1: But it was really really fun, completely nerve wracking because
Speaker 1: I had to speak and I was very scared, but
Speaker 1: it was an incredible evening. I'm really still processing it.
Speaker 1: It was really intense. There were tears, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of laughter. It was really really fun. My big
Speaker 1: obstacles to the evening. Number one was that I really
Speaker 1: felt so much kind of pressure, but in a good way,
Speaker 1: pressure to speak about Sarah Jessica because I love her
Speaker 1: so much, as you guys know, but also I'm just
Speaker 1: when I look at her entire career, I'm just in
Speaker 1: awe and blown away. And as you know, I'm rewatching
Speaker 1: the show, and every time I watch an episode, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, she's so brilliant. Oh my gosh, Like I
Speaker 1: didn't even know how brilliant she was at the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I knew she was brilliant, but every time
Speaker 1: I rewatched, I'm even more impressed. So I really wanted
Speaker 1: to convey that. But I also wanted to convey what
Speaker 1: an incredible person she was, but that's really hard to do.
Speaker 1: So they sent me a speech, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you guys know, I'm sober. I've been sober a
Speaker 1: really long time. They sent me a speech basically about Cosmopolitans.
Speaker 1: So I was a little confused. I guess that there's
Speaker 1: you know, you're kind of toasting the winners during the evening,
Speaker 1: and so they did give everyone a Cosmopolitan on the table,
Speaker 1: and luckily Colemyan Domingo stuffed in to toast Sarah Jessica
Speaker 1: with the Cosmo because it was just really I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the job for me to discuss
Speaker 1: the Cosmopolitan and toast with it since I don't actually
Speaker 1: drink it. And they were of course very understanding, and
Speaker 1: so I wrote my own speech, which I felt like
Speaker 1: I needed to do so that it could be you
Speaker 1: know what I want to say from my heart to her,
Speaker 1: because it's so rare. It's so rare that you get
Speaker 1: to stand up on a stage and talk about one
Speaker 1: of your friends, Cory. So my whole challenge the whole
Speaker 1: night was trying to get through without crying. And then
Speaker 1: I had gone to rehearse, and you know how they
Speaker 1: put those cards up with the pictures of the actors
Speaker 1: and people that are going to be there. Who is
Speaker 1: directly in front of the microphone but Harrison Ford. So
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, now I've met Harrison before. He's lovely,
Speaker 1: but he is still Harrison Ford. There is nothing that
Speaker 1: can change that, right, So I have to not be
Speaker 1: completely shut down by the fact that Harrison Ford is
Speaker 1: sitting there looking at me. So luckily Sara Jessica was
Speaker 1: at the other table right in front of me. So
Speaker 1: my goal, and I do think I was able to
Speaker 1: do this, was to look at her. Obviously I've been
Speaker 1: in many work situations with her and you know, tune
Speaker 1: into her, talk to her. But also, you know, remember
Speaker 1: that I'm talking to the bigger audience about her. And
Speaker 1: I do feel like I did well. I did what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do, and I know this because she
Speaker 1: had to get a tissue out, which is very very rare,
Speaker 1: you guys, very very rare. But then I also had
Speaker 1: a moment of panic. Am I actually going to be
Speaker 1: able to finish if she now has a tissue out
Speaker 1: and I can see her being moved and I am
Speaker 1: still having to talk. So that was challenging. But I
Speaker 1: did it. I did it, And part of the reason
Speaker 1: that I was able to do it is because so
Speaker 1: many friends were in the audience, basically all of HBO.
Speaker 1: Came Casey Bloyd, who I love so much, Carolyn Strauss,
Speaker 1: our original head of original programming at HBO when we
Speaker 1: made the show. Incredible to see STRAUSSI as we call her,
Speaker 1: Amy Harris, one of our writers. You know, I could
Speaker 1: just go on and on, Kevin Huvain, who's been Sarah's
Speaker 1: agent for thirty years, who we love so so desperately,
Speaker 1: people who have been in her life in my life
Speaker 1: for such a long time and were such a pep
Speaker 1: squad to me at the table. So basically we go
Speaker 1: in luckily. So first I got there, Okay, first I
Speaker 1: couldn't decide what to wear. I'll take you through the
Speaker 1: whole thing because I haven't been on a red carpet
Speaker 1: in a while, and I also haven't been working in
Speaker 1: a while, so I'm just in mommy mode. My nails
Speaker 1: are a mess, I don't have a fake tan, like
Speaker 1: so many things people, it's so much work I can't
Speaker 1: even tell you. So I've been in a bit of
Speaker 1: a low grade stress place because also it's just basically
Speaker 1: right after the holidays, right, so you're in holiday mode,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you're in like red
Speaker 1: carpet mode, very challenging. I have a wonderful stylist, Samantha McMillan,
Speaker 1: and she got me two gorgeous, gorgeous dresses. It was
Speaker 1: really hard to figure out what to wear because we
Speaker 1: couldn't exactly understand what the event was because they've never
Speaker 1: filmed it to make a TV special of it before,
Speaker 1: so that was odd, and I wasn't one hundred percent
Speaker 1: sure what Sarah was going to wear. My goal is
Speaker 1: usually not necessarily to know exactly what she's wearing, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to clash with her, so I usually
Speaker 1: try to check in with her or Alyssa, who works
Speaker 1: with her, and just say like, hey, I've got a
Speaker 1: brown dress, I've got a black dress. Is there anything
Speaker 1: I should think about? They're always like, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: But I knew that she was going to wear something sparkly.
Speaker 1: I had a head to toe brown sequin dress that
Speaker 1: I loved, loved very much. Then I had the dress
Speaker 1: I ended up wearing, which was very beautiful black, simple
Speaker 1: dress by Saint John with that kind of almost like
Speaker 1: a necklace halter top, so it was super easy to wear.
Speaker 1: Both of them were super easy to wear, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't decide till the very last minute. So I had
Speaker 1: my hair Marcus Francis, who I love so much, my
Speaker 1: makeup Heather Curry, who I love so much. They came over,
Speaker 1: Samantha came over, everybody conferred, and because I had already
Speaker 1: gone to rehearse. I had filmed the room at the time,
Speaker 1: and the room was kind of gold and purple, beautiful flowers.
Speaker 1: They did a really beautiful job to me, much more
Speaker 1: beautiful than the room that we actually did the Golden
Speaker 1: Globes in which has like this semi hideous carpet unless
Speaker 1: they've changed it. But that room is really huge and
Speaker 1: overwhelming in terms of the number of people, but also
Speaker 1: just the number of famous faces. It's like fully overwhelming.
Speaker 1: This was a more intimate room, but still a lot
Speaker 1: of famous faces. Still overwhelming, but in a more intimate way.
Speaker 1: So when we looked at the footage of the room,
Speaker 1: we decided to go with a black and I'm glad
Speaker 1: I did because I was more complimentary to Sir Jessica.
Speaker 1: I definitely felt that I was there to support Sir Jessica,
Speaker 1: you know, which is like you have to really navigate that.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to look good, but you don't
Speaker 1: want to be you know, I'm not getting an award,
Speaker 1: She's getting an award. I feel like that's important, So
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be there in a support element. And
Speaker 1: I loved my Saint John dress, and they gave me
Speaker 1: a little jacket because I was really worried I was
Speaker 1: going to be freezing. And then I got some gorgeous
Speaker 1: earrings and you know, my hair was down, so I
Speaker 1: felt less less naked. But then I got to the
Speaker 1: red carpet a little bit early because there's construction all
Speaker 1: around the Beverly Hilton, and I was really worried I
Speaker 1: would be late, so I got there a little bit early.
Speaker 1: Nobody was there yet. I saw these pictures of me
Speaker 1: in the red carpet and I look really mad, and
Speaker 1: I did not feel really mad. But I feel like
Speaker 1: being on a red carpet with a bunch of photographers
Speaker 1: is just never really that comfortable. You know. People sometimes
Speaker 1: are like, why is she making that face? Why is
Speaker 1: she posing like that? About me, but also about everybody else,
Speaker 1: because it's just very odd, you know, it's a very
Speaker 1: odd thing. So the first pictures I saw, I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I look really mad. But then Evan came and he
Speaker 1: brought his daughter, Sophia. He plays Harry For anyone who
Speaker 1: doesn't know, it was such a joy to see him.
Speaker 1: David Eigenberg came and brought his daughter, then Sarah Jessica
Speaker 1: and Matthew her husband, Matthew Broderick, who I love and
Speaker 1: know obviously very well, and their son James Wilkie, who
Speaker 1: I've been talking to since he was, you know, in
Speaker 1: the womb. They came, and then I felt super great,
Speaker 1: and then I looked fine for the rest of the
Speaker 1: evening and not so mad, which was good. So they came.
Speaker 1: It was amazing, It was so much fun. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that everyone was going to bring their children. I'm
Speaker 1: sure my daughter is going to be mad that she
Speaker 1: wasn't there. And then all of our friends came, as
Speaker 1: I was saying, which was really great. So then we
Speaker 1: go into the room. A lot of fun, fun people came.
Speaker 1: Viola Davis came to give Helen Mihr and her award.
Speaker 1: Love Viola so so so much. Tessa Thompson came to
Speaker 1: give Helen Mirren the award. I'd never met her, but
Speaker 1: she's incredible, and we chatted a lot. It was really
Speaker 1: really fun, so many great people. Ted Dance and Mary
Speaker 1: Steinberg and his wife, incredible Harrison Ford, as I already mentioned.
Speaker 1: Then I look across the room and I see my
Speaker 1: friend Walton Guggins, and I'm so excited. I've known Walton
Speaker 1: a long time because our kids went to school together.
Speaker 1: And you know, he's an incredible actor and he's been
Speaker 1: acting forever. But of course he was on the White
Speaker 1: Lotus did an unbelievable job and blew up, as you
Speaker 1: guys all know. And I have been so excited, and
Speaker 1: we've been texting each other intermittently, you know, just watching
Speaker 1: him go on S and L. I mean, all of
Speaker 1: the things he's been doing. He's just been doing such
Speaker 1: a great job. And that really is who he is, Like,
Speaker 1: he's just an incredibly fascinating guy. He's always been hot
Speaker 1: like that. I just don't think that people knew. I
Speaker 1: remember I had I had someone ask me before the
Speaker 1: show had come on, like, you know, is he hot?
Speaker 1: And I was like, yes, are you kidding? And I
Speaker 1: think now everyone knows that he is in fact hot.
Speaker 1: But there was this one thing that was always feeling
Speaker 1: a little worried for him because he's across the room,
Speaker 1: He's not sitting near us, and I just saw him
Speaker 1: surrounded by these women. There were a lot of women
Speaker 1: around him. They were all touching him. I know him,
Speaker 1: and I know his wife Nadia. I love Naughty very much,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I need to go over there
Speaker 1: and help Bolton out of this situation. And there was
Speaker 1: this one woman who's just like, you're so hot, You're
Speaker 1: so hot. She just kept telling him over and I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, like back off, and she's like, and
Speaker 1: your wife too, and I was like okay. And of
Speaker 1: course Walton can handle himself. I'm sure he was fine,
Speaker 1: but there was a gaggle. There was a gaggle at
Speaker 1: one point, and I felt worried for him. So I
Speaker 1: did go over and I get to have a really
Speaker 1: great chat with him, and I just, you know, of course,
Speaker 1: told him again how thrilled I am for him, and
Speaker 1: he's having a great time, which is nice. So that
Speaker 1: was really really nice. It's good to see people that
Speaker 1: you haven't seen in a while. That's kind of the
Speaker 1: best part of going to these big award shows is
Speaker 1: you just get to just see everybody and chat and
Speaker 1: connect and it's fun. You know, it's very overwhelming, Like
Speaker 1: I did not sleep last night at all, Like you
Speaker 1: cannot calm down. And I remember back in the olden
Speaker 1: days when we went to these things a lot, I
Speaker 1: just didn't sleep. I mean we would go out, of
Speaker 1: course to the different HBO parties or whatever. It wasn't
Speaker 1: that type of night last night, thank god, because I
Speaker 1: don't know if I could have handled it. But like,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of like a sensory overload in a way,
Speaker 1: so I had to speak. I was very nervous. I
Speaker 1: didn't know the run of show. They hadn't explained to
Speaker 1: me exactly the run of show, so I just knew
Speaker 1: that I was in the first half hour. They fed
Speaker 1: us first, which was great, but I had a little
Speaker 1: trouble eating because I was so nervous, and I just
Speaker 1: didn't quite know what time when I would go right
Speaker 1: or even I knew that Coleman was giving the toast
Speaker 1: and then they would pass to me and I would
Speaker 1: have to get up and wind my way through this
Speaker 1: very crowded audience up to the stage, and I was
Speaker 1: just hoping I could get up there, which I did.
Speaker 1: So I was nervous. I couldn't relax, couldn't relax, couldn't relax.
Speaker 1: Then the show starts and Matthew started the show. And
Speaker 1: Matthew rarely rarely talks intimately about Sara Juska, so I
Speaker 1: know that he was very nervous, and he did such
Speaker 1: a great job he got up, he opened the show,
Speaker 1: and then he got up again to actually present her
Speaker 1: with her award. And it was so great because he
Speaker 1: talked about so many details. He talked about what she
Speaker 1: was wearing when he met her, what he remembers about
Speaker 1: when he met her, which is just so incredible to
Speaker 1: think about. He remembers when they got the script for
Speaker 1: the pilot of Sex and the City and what he thought,
Speaker 1: and so he told us what he thought, and then
Speaker 1: he told us what he said to her, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: I know she knew everything he was thinking that he
Speaker 1: thinks he didn't say, but it was really funny to hear.
Speaker 1: And she, when she accepted her reward, told so many
Speaker 1: great just stories about her beginning love for performing, and
Speaker 1: there was a story that I didn't actually know all
Speaker 1: of which is so crazy because so if you don't
Speaker 1: know Sarah, Jessica has been acting since she was a child.
Speaker 1: I think roughly ten, I want to say, and when
Speaker 1: she was I want to say, twelve, twelve or thirteen,
Speaker 1: she was in Annie on Broadway. And when I was young,
Speaker 1: I was in South Carolina, but I loved theater and
Speaker 1: I loved acting already, and my parents took me to
Speaker 1: see Annie on Broadway, and I saw Sarah Jessica play
Speaker 1: an orphan in Annie on Broadway when we were in
Speaker 1: our tweens, which is insane, but even crazier than that.
Speaker 1: After I got out of college, I went to college
Speaker 1: as an actor BFA in acting. I thought I would
Speaker 1: just do regional theater, and I was praying to God
Speaker 1: I might get a Broadway show. One day, I went
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati, where Sarah was born and where she was
Speaker 1: raised in her young years, and I did a play
Speaker 1: Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare at Cincinnati Playhouse in
Speaker 1: the Park, a beautiful theater up on a hill in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I did not know that Sarah Jessica's mother met Sarah
Speaker 1: Jessica's father at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and all
Speaker 1: of her siblings went to the rehearsals where their parents,
Speaker 1: not her biological father, but her father who raised her,
Speaker 1: met and performed. And at one point the director said
Speaker 1: to the cast, those kids know this score of Once
Speaker 1: Upon a Mattress, which I'll get to in a second,
Speaker 1: better than you guys do, meaning the cast meaning Sarah
Speaker 1: and her brothers and sisters knew the score better. And
Speaker 1: was that director not right, and like press in what
Speaker 1: he was saying about those kids, Yes he was. Now.
Speaker 1: The other crazy connection is that Sarah Jessica was getting
Speaker 1: the Carol Burnett Award. Carol Burnett originated the role in
Speaker 1: Once Upon a Mattress on Broadway, And when I met
Speaker 1: Sarah for Sex and the City, she was on Broadway
Speaker 1: playing the lead role in Once Upon a Mattress and
Speaker 1: I saw her. Is that not so many connections? Can
Speaker 1: you even believe that? And I didn't even know this
Speaker 1: story about her parents' meeting and doing a play Once
Speaker 1: Upon a Mattress at Cinctanti Playhouse in the Park. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really insane. So anyway, it was a full circle
Speaker 1: moment in so many ways, a full circle evening. It
Speaker 1: was insane. Sarah and I did discuss that she is
Speaker 1: too young to beginning a Lifetime Achievement award. It is weird,
Speaker 1: you know, like how did this happen? What is going on?
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, for me, I'm just thrilled
Speaker 1: that there are honoring her. I'm thrilled that they're you know,
Speaker 1: recognizing her contributions through her whole entire career. Like once
Speaker 1: they started playing the clips of all of her different performances.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so much fun to watch La
Speaker 1: story if you guys haven't seen it, incredible Honeymoon in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's done so much Family Stone, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you've seen. I mean, so so so many things where
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, And I mean, of course, then they
Speaker 1: showed they had a whole package of sex and the City,
Speaker 1: which of course is always fun to watch, as we
Speaker 1: all know because we're rewatching it. But it was a
Speaker 1: really really fun evening, a really fun evening. And I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just such a rare, rare thing to have this
Speaker 1: kind of experience in life where we have gotten to
Speaker 1: do something that we love so much for so long,
Speaker 1: and that now we're being like recognized and I'm able
Speaker 1: to be there and help honor her. It boggles the mind.
Speaker 1: I'm just so lucky and I'm gonna crack. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it was good, good evening. Yeah I'm still not over it.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was a lot, but it was good. Anyway.
Speaker 1: We're gonna show you guys the pictures. And it was happy.
Speaker 1: Don't let my tears fool you. It was all happy.
Speaker 1: But it really it means all right, that's it. Also,
Speaker 1: I got to talk a lot about heated rivalry. I
Speaker 1: find that the weirdest title I always want to say.
Speaker 1: At the Hockey Show, I got to talk to a
Speaker 1: lot of people about the Hockey Show yesterday. I got
Speaker 1: to talk about all our HBO peeps, and I just
Speaker 1: congratulated them on buying that show, because man, is it something.
Speaker 1: And I got to work on trying to get Connor
Speaker 1: on the podcast. You guys, I'm just trying all the ways,
Speaker 1: all the ways, okay, so cross your fingers. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: any of them. I'd like to talk to any of them.
Speaker 1: But Connor seems to be living in lay in around
Speaker 1: and I know people who know him. So I'm working
Speaker 1: on it, guys. I'm working on it, okay. And if
Speaker 1: you haven't watched it, definitely watch he did Rivalry on
Speaker 1: HBO and get back to me about it. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening to everybody. Pipe