WEBVTT - Parlez Vous Français with Ben Platt... (S2 E12 "La Douleur Exquise!") 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.880 Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:09.800 you a Charlotte? Okay, you guys today, thank you for 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.560 joining us on Rus Charlotte. We have an incredible guest, 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.200 Ben Platt. He is almost an Egot winner. He has 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.279 a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy, everything but the Oscar, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.880 which I have every faith he will one day get. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.240 You would know him from Dear Evan Hansen and also 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.760 Pitch Perfect he plays Benji and also he was on 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.560 the Politician Ryan Murphy series. I mean, he is incredible. 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.640 And he has this unbelievable concert at Radio City Music 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.960 Hall where he basically says that he's a Charlotte and 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.159 then he sings a song that he wrote about it. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.320 So we're going to talk to him about that and 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:48.120 so much more. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.639 Here is the incredible Ben Platte day. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:51.919 It is very exciting. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.320 I'm so excited to be here. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.960 And we have a bunch of similarities or connections though 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.760 I have never officially met Ben, but what I have 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.600 just start with though, and I don't know if you 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.360 were aware of this, tell me so I fly a lot, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.240 fly around a lot, and we had one season of 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.399 the show and just like that where it was during 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.880 the school year, so I was literally flying to LA 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.720 every weekend to see my kids. It was hard and 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.399 I was deliriously tired. So one flight, I'm on the 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.479 flight and there were some adorable young men on this flight. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.200 I was like, they seem familiar, but. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.360 I was so tired, and we take the whole flight. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.399 There's some chatting going on. There's possibly a mother or 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.080 a mother in law. To me, there's some chatting, there's 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.240 some boisterousness. I'm like, I don't know who they are, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.480 but they're super interesting. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.440 We get off and I'm like, oh, my god, I 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:44.240 think that's been. 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.400 Oh it was me, I think so and your husband. Yes, 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.400 I mean that you didn't notice me. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:53.840 No, I would have bothered you. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.560 I'm so glad because I was so mortified but they 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:57.600 didn't say hi to you. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:58.960 I would have made you make a video for my 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.400 sister's Thank God and Heaven. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.720 Because I thought to myself, like, I mean I was 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.560 in my like do not look at me phase, you 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.080 know what I mean. I might have had a hat on. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.160 I was in like my. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.600 Planes the most like it doesn't gifying zone to be 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:12.760 a person zone. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.760 Because later on I felt so bad because I thought 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.639 that super adorable concert where you literally say that you 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:20.079 are a. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.000 Charlotte, It's true, I do. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.160 Everyone and their brother sent to me. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.480 I wrote a whole song I don't tell us about it. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.080 Well, yeah, I mean I very much identified as Charlotte, 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.440 always have. I grew up with two sisters, as I said, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.399 and they loved the show and exposed me to the show, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.000 and I've most of the show memorized. So I just 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.760 it's very formative to me as as a gay person 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.959 and a New York person. So I also from a 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.560 Jewish family, and very much the m O culturally, as 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.400 obviously Charlotte becomes is you know, you got to find 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.400 your find your husband and settle down and buy the china, 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.440 and you know, it's all about like making a home 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.440 and so for me and dating, like even prematurely, that 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:57.880 was very much my m O and so I very 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.600 much consider myself a Charlotte. So I wrote this song 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.839 called Share Your Address that's on my first album. That's 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.720 about kind of jumping in really quickly as soon as 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.680 you like someone after the first couple of dates. And 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.520 I always say that it's very much inspired. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.040 By Charles ah which I love so much, and it's 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.200 so beautiful in the concert, it's so so beautiful, and 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:14.840 people kept sending to me and I was like, this 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.200 is adorable. It's before I had the podcast. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.120 But then I was like, yes, this, we need to 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:20.200 have him on the podcast. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.079 As soon as I heard this was the thing. Yay, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.000 I'm so glad you're doing this. By the way, someone 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.640 loves the show and watches it before I go to sleep. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.040 It's nice to have someone to chat about it with. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.720 I do find this whole new. It's really amazing to 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.800 have lasted this long in terms of the show being 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.080 culturally discussed at all. And then obviously we got to 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.800 go back and do it and just like that. And 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.400 then they came to me while we were doing it 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.880 just like that, asked me if I wanted to do 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.800 the podcast. I had had other chances to do a 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.760 rewatch podcast, and I hadn't. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.480 I hadn't been ready in a way. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:51.120 Yeah, of course. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.320 It seems weird in a certain way to look back 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.240 and kind of live in the past, like I didn't 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:57.440 want to live in the past. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.080 Of course, But I had also never rewatched the show. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.119 And in my mind, of course I love the show. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.440 I always love the show. Everyone knows I love the show, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.640 but when I watch it, I'm blown away by how 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:09.040 good it is. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.920 It's really good and whatever you do, it's really good. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.600 Thank God, right, thank God. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.800 Like it's such a gift as an actor to just 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:22.000 luck in, like literally fall into a situation where everybody 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.040 is trying to do something new and everybody is committed, 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.800 and everyone cares so much, and our writers were so 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.839 amazing and still are and you know, so many different things. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.920 So I'm so lucky that I did say yes. I'm 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.320 so thankful that I did say yes. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.280 And I so understand that having to have the right 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.320 amount of time between to like live your life and 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.520 be a person and separate and then come back to 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.400 it fresh and like I so understand like that you 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.159 needed to wait till the right moment to raise it. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.200 And now it's very therapeutic, really, I would imagine, right, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.080 it's so interesting and sometimes I remember nothing, like this 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.599 entire episode was new to you, totally fresh. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:56.960 At way I watch it, does it put you back 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.120 on the day, Like do you think of do you 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.600 get the flashes of like work days and little. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.080 Flashes, because that is the way actors remember things. I 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:08.400 remember like I was so hot that day, melting exactly. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.120 I can see me melting. I can I'm going to 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.719 see weird details that no one else would see or whatever. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.479 I I don't even think I do. I gues I 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:22.039 did have flashbacks. I'm remembering now. I'm remembering now. The 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.400 funny thing is that sometimes, like for instance, I do 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.960 people over the years. It's always interesting to see what 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.080 people remember and talk to you about, right, And people 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.920 would talk to me about the S and M Club, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.599 and I'm always like, I don't know what you're talking about. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.919 This is apparently what I was talking about. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.880 Yes, the La la de lure, Thank you so much. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.720 Good job. I doubt that I know, and I don't. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:45.239 I didn't. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.320 I have no memory of this at all, no memory 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.800 of this at all, except that there is there's a 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.320 picture of the cast, and I don't know where we are, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.440 possibly at a like a premiere party, and my hair 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.440 is kinked. You know, it's scary, Okay, it's. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:01.760 Star Do you love it? 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.960 Of course? And I just love that that's her interpretation 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.520 of the assignment when she shows up. I know Charlotte 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:07.600 is true to Charlotte. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.239 Always Charlotte is true to Charlotte. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.600 We all four of them are. Also, why they're so 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.960 iconic and why everybody sees themselves in them is that 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.239 they're very true to their you know, their centers. Obviously, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.919 they all change and experience things, but they have like 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.280 an id each of them that like stays very consistent, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:23.640 and I feel like real people. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.240 I agree one hundred percent. I agree with one hundred percent. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.080 There are people in the world who do not agree. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.120 Well with us. They can come to me, actually thought 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:32.760 do not, absolutely not. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.440 I love that man. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.000 Thank you for putting yourself out there for us. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:36.320 Thank you. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.400 Okay, So the thing, okay, here we are, we're back. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.840 Should we go back and discuss Oh my God, of course. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.800 Okay great? Or should we? I just want to just 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.480 briefly touch on. So you're happily married. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.760 I'm happily married. I want to tell the story I 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.000 found my harry Golden Blat. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.279 How did you find your harry Golden Blat? 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.560 Well, we met. His name is Noa Galvin. He's very 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.640 talented actor and writer and singer and performer. And he 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.520 and I met when we were like nineteen doing making 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.200 like a web series, like a comedy web series and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:03.960 never saw the light of day. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:04.720 I didn't even know this. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:05.480 Yeah, my god. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.280 We met really early on wo our mutual friends who 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.480 we made this film Theeder Camp with. They were one 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:11.960 of the first things that we all made together was 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.080 this web series. They invited me in and I met 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.640 Noah doing like improv with him, and we had a 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.240 talent crushes immediately on each other. And then we started, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.960 you know, working together in the theater community, like workshopping musicals 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.240 and stuff, and we started dating like right away when 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.480 we were like twenty years old. Wow. And I like 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:32.080 really panicked and sort of freaked out quickly, and for 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:33.880 reasons that I don't think I understood at the time. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.880 At the time, I sort of expressed it like, oh, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.320 like I think we're best for I think this is 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.200 a friendship. I think this is like a lifelong friendship, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.320 and I don't want to ruin that by dating. And 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.040 I don't think I understood at such a young age 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:45.760 that like that is one and the same. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.480 But nobody when they're young understanding. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.400 No I thought those were like totally different categories, right, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:50.720 So you. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.080 Were looking for the heat, that's right, right. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.320 And so I sent him a text message that was 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:55.640 so long that it has an arrow at the bottom 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.760 to go to the rest of the text message, which 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.600 wasn't the nicest way to do it. But he so 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:00.880 he was mad at me for a little while, but 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.280 then he was bb became friends and he was very patient, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.600 and we were friends for like five six years wow. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.200 And then sort of had like a maturing turning point, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.960 mostly on my end of coming to my senses and realizing, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.360 you know, this was the sort of greatest person that 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:15.840 I know has been in front of me the whole time, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.040 and he graciously allowed me to come to that realization. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:21.920 But we really gave both of us a chance to 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.920 like sow some oats, which I really appreciate. I'm glad 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.960 we didn't get together right away and we were able 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.360 to come a little bit more fully formed. And we've 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.240 been married almost a year. Will September first will be 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:31.280 our first amazing. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.439 But then, where's the Durham van Hanson? 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.280 So the internet list to tell me that we met 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.400 doing Derevin Hanson, which is not true, got it? We 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.439 already done each other, yes, always for several years. When 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.160 I was doing Iman handsOn, I originated the part on 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.880 Broadway and they were looking for a replacement, and they 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.440 obviously found Noah because Noah was very talented, and I 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.440 was just like, oh, I loved him. He's amazing. I 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.319 co signed. That's amazing. So we already had a friendship 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.680 and I was able to you know, help him, you know, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.280 acclimate to like that really intense part and at least 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.160 make the transition as easy as it could be. But yeah, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.679 that was like chapter three or four in. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:08.439 Our That's amazing. That's amazing. I love that story so much, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.880 and I love I do think that there's just so 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.679 many different elements of First of all, you know, meeting 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.000 when you're nineteen, I mean, that's kind of insane totally. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.520 So it's amazing that you were able to navigate that 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.760 in a way and both have patience or whatever. It 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.200 took time and patience and growth to come to the 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.160 point where you did realize and you hadn't burn that bridge. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.200 It was Yeah, I'm very grateful to the universe that, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.480 like I, for whatever reason, wasn't ready to deal with 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.120 it and so kind of blew it up for a moment, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.559 and also grateful to him that he stuck with it. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:44.040 And amazing congratulations. It seems definitely like we could use 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:44.920 the word for shared. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:45.880 Yeah, it's for shared. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.880 Love it, that's right, love it so so much. Yeah, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.720 I love that story, and I think it's also funny. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.040 I love to correct things that are wrong out there 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.720 because people goma. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.839 On or something, and then it becomes like it's real. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.520 But it's nice in the narrative. Yeah, right, and I 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.240 get it. It's such a fun that's such a fun story. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:06.880 But like, we met doing Darren Hanson, and it's like 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.199 we both played Evan Hanson, but it's more boring to 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.360 be like, actually, we had done a workshop of a 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.480 musical called Alice by Heart, and we had also made 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.640 a web sketch together and gone to Vastar and stuff. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.880 But but yeah, I love it. We still did both 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:20.600 Lavon Hanson, so. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.640 That's of course, of course, and that's a funny. It's 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.000 a funny, like, yeah, it's a quirky little thing. So 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.760 a year married, a year married, what you thought it 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:29.120 would be? 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.760 Yeah, I mean, I think the bigger change for me, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.520 especially because I've known him for so long, was the cohabitating, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.880 like we're moving in and really like building a home 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:39.720 together for the first time. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.079 It's a very Charlotte type of thing. Exactly how has 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:42.920 it panned out? 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.000 Really really well. He's he's very aesthetically gifted, and that's 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.040 very much his strong suit, which is not mine. I'm 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:56.680 very good at cleanliness and organization, nice and like logistics 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.760 and sort of executing, and he's a good ideas man. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.000 So it's a nice combo. But because we had already 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.480 done that and started living together for like almost a 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.320 year by the time we got married, I think the 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.640 marriage part was sort of just like, of course, like 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.080 this is naturally what we want to do next and 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.560 what feels right, and we didn't sort of come home 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.520 the next morning and think like, oh now everything is different, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.880 We've changed everything. We just kind of watched Pop Star Academy. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.839 And love it. The funny thing about Charlotte's whole thing 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.800 because people do talk a lot about the China, because 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.080 the China, you know, when when she marries Kyle and 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.560 we're in Bergdorf and I flipped that plate over. But 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.440 also even in the first season, I go out with 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:41.320 Carrie's discarded man and he doesn't like my China taste, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.640 and I'm like out. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:46.480 But sometimes if you know, you. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.720 Know if you know, you know, and whatever way you 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.000 find out, whatever meaningful thing in your mind that is. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:57.280 I guess that's important to me. I do think like, wow, Charlotte, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.160 it's very pick. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.560 But she is, but she is and she and I 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.200 love that with Harry they had to tryal and tribulate 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.160 and come back to the growth on their own time. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.679 And there's growth in Charlotte that is super important. But 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.640 the thing that was funny about it in my mind, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.600 and this is again like an actor type of a thing. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.360 So when she was married to Kyle obviously sorry, what's 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.800 his name, Trey, it's so so messy in my mind 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:22.839 at this point that I. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.280 Can did you have a nice experience working with him? 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.640 It's a dream, Okay, He's wonderful on the show. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.480 He's amazing. Love the character, I know, amazing, right and complicated. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.679 Very very yes, fairly human and you know, heartbreaking and 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:36.439 great and funny. 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.160 I haven't gotten to that part of the rewatch. I'm 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.160 looking forward to it because I do feel like I 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:41.840 need to work. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:42.439 Some feelings out. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.880 But what I remember is, of course, you know, the 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.320 thematic is that this is exactly what she was looking for. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.120 Everything looks perfect on the outside, but it's not perfect 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.600 on the inside, and that is her growth is that 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.760 that's not going to work out, sadly, and that then 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.439 she's going to expect and and grow herself inside and realize, no, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.680 this person who doesn't look anything like what she thought 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.320 she wanted is in fact what she really wants on 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.360 the inside. And it has worked out to be, thank god, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.080 a happy relationship and marriage in the Sex and the 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.640 City universe, exactly the only one, as he likes to say, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:19.800 the last man's standing. 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:21.880 It's true, I know, and I'm so happy. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.000 I'm so happy for her and for him earned. It 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:38.120 does feel earned, that's well put. When we came back 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.880 to film, and just like that, it was a lot right. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.240 It was right after COVID. We were we had to 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.240 get the sets out of storage and or rebuild them 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.080 depending on the situation, and. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.360 Recreate which Twilight Zone. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:56.200 So much so. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.640 But yet our children had grown up, right, so they 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.920 were trying to update. They were like, how can we update? 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.319 How can we change in a way that makes sense. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.800 So the first day I was the first. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.400 Person to work, what was the first thing you shot? 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.520 Basically a day of crying because Big has died. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:18.280 Whoa with the children who are now one day one. Yes, okay, yes. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:19.760 I had to go to work at four thirty in 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.240 the morning. I hadn't been to work in a while 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.160 because of COVID, right, And. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.840 Sometimes the first week is a wash because you're just 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.840 like getting your bearings and your yess so unfair. I 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:29.880 know I would never have. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:30.520 Known, thank you. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.800 They expect a lot of me, okay, but Michael Patrick 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.160 was directing, so there's an ease in that. But I 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.240 had my new children, who we you know, we've done 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:37.760 a read through. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:38.040 We do. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.200 We were old school like that, so we've done that. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.400 I had my new dog, Myrtle. Love her so much. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.760 She's a she. I feel like I can say this now. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:50.160 I've been trying to keep this quiet. She's a she, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.160 so I often just refer to her by her character name, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.960 but she is a she, Myrtle. I love her so passionately, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.440 and I might start to cry. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.840 She's eight, Okay, I just. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.520 We just lost our dog in the spring. His name 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.240 was George. Here's Steorge. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.080 Oh, George is beautiful. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.480 George is beautiful. Let's not cry about the dogs, because 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.000 really it could happen. So I'm just going to close 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.960 my eyes for a second and talk about being at work, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.720 going back to work. I'm all so excited, but also 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.360 so nervous. I have so many important scenes I have 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.920 to basically cry for like three episodes. When we first 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.840 came back, there was a lot of Charlotte crying. And 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.360 I can do that, but it was still a lot. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.160 So I go, I go into Charlotte set. I'm so 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.040 excited to see the things that I recognize. You know, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.720 she has that beautiful china cabinet with all of her china, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.320 and we know this is important to Charlotte. Then there's 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.960 this little vestibule where you're walking from the dining room 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.840 into the kitchen, and it's where there's like kind of 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.680 desks on either side, and they had decided that this 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.920 was the children's area and that the children were messy. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.720 So it was like if like someone's bedroom exploded into 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.680 a very small area. And I was like, you guys, 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.480 whoa what is this? Are you not finished? You know, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.680 like saying up like we could see this in the shot. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.520 They're like, no, no, that's how it is, because you 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.520 know the kids are messy. I'm like, but I'm still Charlotte. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:12.000 True. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.360 They can't be this messy, like what on earth? And 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.160 they're like, oh, so this whole conversation has to happen, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.200 and I'm like anxious, so I'm like, no, like this 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:24.640 they did. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:25.520 They take the feedback? 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.760 They did? Good God, yes, thanks God. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.560 That's what makes it feel real after all these years. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.400 Like Sarah Jessica talks about this too, just like you 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.480 guys take all of the details very seriously, and what 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.480 everyone do you know these women really well? 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.840 So it's just like and everyone on the set also 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.000 takes all these details really seriously. So it's really interesting. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.640 But what we we had to come to like a 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:48.200 happy medium of it, right, because yes, they are teenagers right. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.360 Tween teams, you're right behind them exactly. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.040 And also I wouldn't want them to be trying to 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.280 be doing better, right. So also in their bedroom we 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.120 had like Lilies I'd be really neat and Rose slush 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.120 rock because she wasn't yet not be really neat, right, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.040 So it was all very interesting. But anyway, you reminded 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.119 me of that with the china, because this really the 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.520 china stands out to people about Charlotte. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.320