Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
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Speaker 2: That was interesting that you said you and your daughter
Speaker 2: don't watch that kind of thing like awards shows? Are
Speaker 2: you just like because I at a certain point I
Speaker 2: stopped reading entertainment press altogether. I think that's why, like
Speaker 2: five years ago, because I was like, this never makes
Speaker 2: me feel good, right, nor is it like super interesting?
Speaker 3: True? So what am I doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I kind of just phased it out and so
Speaker 2: but it was for my own like mental health definitely,
Speaker 2: like eight years ago. So yeah, and now I'm not
Speaker 2: as kind of strict about her or whatever. But I
Speaker 2: think it's good to if you're in entertainment, sometimes it's
Speaker 2: good to pull back. So yeah, what's behind that?
Speaker 1: I mean? For me, I think a couple things like
Speaker 1: when I had watched a lot of craziness go on,
Speaker 1: like when Sarah Jessca got pregnant, they meaning the paparazzi
Speaker 1: and or at that time there was no limits on
Speaker 1: what the magazines were buying and printing, right, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they tortured her.
Speaker 3: I mean it was so insane.
Speaker 1: Followed her around, like, followed her, chased her, almost ran
Speaker 1: her off the road like insanity. Like when they brought James,
Speaker 1: their first child home, I went to see him and
Speaker 1: they were in their brownstone in the village. Everyone knew
Speaker 1: where she lived. We had this one particular crazy paparazzi
Speaker 1: who I don't want to say his name, but you
Speaker 1: probably know who would They would sometimes have a battle
Speaker 1: between the two of them, because the paparazzi would stay
Speaker 1: with us for the entire day, right like eighteen hours
Speaker 1: or whatever, hang out, yeah, just eat our craft services,
Speaker 1: and you know, you'd have to say like could you
Speaker 1: please get on the shop, you know, like that, And
Speaker 1: after a while sometimes we'd get tired, you know, and
Speaker 1: if Sarah was tired or we were trying to learn
Speaker 1: our lines. The other thing is that like we would
Speaker 1: be pricing our lines or whatever, and if we frowned,
Speaker 1: they'd put a picture and be like, Kristin and Sarah
Speaker 1: are frighting or whatever. Insanity, right, like, you just get
Speaker 1: so sick of it. So sometimes Sarah would hold her
Speaker 1: sides up right. That would make him mad. So he
Speaker 1: would turn to the crowd who was watching and tell
Speaker 1: her address what I know. I know, I was messed up.
Speaker 3: It was messed up.
Speaker 1: So I was always nicer to him because I was scared,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So when I went to
Speaker 1: see James.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well, I remember when they had their first kid, James.
Speaker 2: I remember seeing on the news them on their front
Speaker 2: sight being like here he is.
Speaker 3: It was in front of the hospital, was in front
Speaker 3: of just like showing them, I know, like a wal
Speaker 3: off now exactly.
Speaker 1: And they thought that was going to work, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: She was exhausted and they had to prance themselves out there,
Speaker 1: and they thought, okay, now the price tag will go
Speaker 1: from his head, right, No, So I go over there
Speaker 1: to see the baby. They're up on the top floor
Speaker 1: of their brownstone. When you would look down, they couldn't
Speaker 1: drive down the street because it was just like like
Speaker 1: maybe a hundred paparazzi. Then they rented an apartment in
Speaker 1: the building across from them to photograph through the windows. Wait,
Speaker 1: meaning the paparazzi rented. That's how much money they were
Speaker 1: making photograph.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Right, So I watched all that. Any
Speaker 3: questions go ahead.
Speaker 2: Now, is that because of social media has a certain
Speaker 2: fervor died down as far as that stuff goes, because
Speaker 2: those photos don't have the value they used to.
Speaker 1: And also because like Jennifer Garner and Kristen Bell and
Speaker 1: Dax went and fought and went to the magazines and said,
Speaker 1: you guys have to stop buying them. You know, that
Speaker 1: made a huge difference. And that was when that was
Speaker 1: after I had adopted my first child. But my whole
Speaker 1: visual sense of like what that was like my whole
Speaker 1: goal in my career. I don't know if this is smart,
Speaker 1: but my goal was to be like moderately famous. You're
Speaker 1: trying to say, like not even moderately famous, but like
Speaker 1: moderately successful, and with that comes the moderate fame, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but not to be you know, like I didn't ever
Speaker 1: want to be show alone.
Speaker 2: That yeah, up close was crazy and that was that
Speaker 2: like late nineties early thoughts was sort of the peak
Speaker 2: of that insanity.
Speaker 1: It certainly was. It certainly was, And Sarah was right
Speaker 1: smack in the middle of it, and it was scary.
Speaker 3: So it scared me a lot.
Speaker 1: So I thought, like on a certain level, I thought
Speaker 1: like when I first adopted my child, I kept her,
Speaker 1: you know, hidden in the house for quite some time,
Speaker 1: Like we would walk her like five in the morning,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to stroll the baby, right, be
Speaker 1: up at five in the morning again in the dark.
Speaker 1: You know. I was really really paranoid because I knew
Speaker 1: that once they found out that, then my life be stressful, right,
Speaker 1: And it was. I lived at the end of a
Speaker 1: cul de sac at the time, and they would just
Speaker 1: line the street and we would peak out. We would
Speaker 1: peak out because someone leaked it, right, so they have
Speaker 1: publicist calls and they're like, they're gonna leak it, so
Speaker 1: we'd better tell them and try to get the price down, right.
Speaker 1: So you went through all the nonsense exactly. And I
Speaker 1: had a nanny, you know, baby nurse with me, and
Speaker 1: we'd stocked up on food and we were gonna like
Speaker 1: how long can we hold up, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And then eventually they figured out that I could see them,
Speaker 1: so they moved down the street and I thought they
Speaker 1: were gone, so I left. I did not take gema
Speaker 1: with me the baby I had to do at this point, right,
Speaker 1: So I leave the house and I'm on the phone
Speaker 1: with my publicist, you know, and I'm like, I think
Speaker 1: I'm okay.
Speaker 3: I think I'm okay. And as I get I lived
Speaker 3: up in the hills.
Speaker 1: As I get down the hill, I realized, no, there's
Speaker 1: like eight cars trailing me, which is luckily not my
Speaker 1: normal life, you know, Thank god.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy to think of it, because you guys
Speaker 2: were such a cultural phenomenon for such a such a
Speaker 2: long period of time. Time Like, that's those are the
Speaker 2: repercussions of that. That's what happens. It's true, you are
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 1: It's one of the repercussions. Yeah, insane, It was insane.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It always scares me, you know, to be chased, like
Speaker 1: it's weird.
Speaker 3: I don't like it. It's weird to have strangers, you know.
Speaker 1: Like eventually, eventually, like and I would get out and
Speaker 1: I would joke with them. They followed me for the
Speaker 1: entire day and I didn't have her with me, and
Speaker 1: I was like, guys, I don't have the baby, you
Speaker 1: can go, you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean. But they didn't go.
Speaker 1: I think they thought I was just going to find
Speaker 1: her somewhere, or she was going to show going.
Speaker 3: To the grocery store. I was just outside.
Speaker 1: They would just be sitting there, you know, and then
Speaker 1: be like, how is it to be a new mom Kristin.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, it's great, Please.
Speaker 1: Go, you know, I mean, you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: weird thing. And I think I do think there's cynicism
Speaker 1: in the world about this, thinking that we all did
Speaker 1: want this right, you know, because of reality TV and
Speaker 1: all that. But that didn't exists when we were trying
Speaker 1: to get work. It was not part of the equation.
Speaker 1: But we are obviously very rewarded as well. So I
Speaker 1: don't mean to complain.
Speaker 3: But it was here.
Speaker 2: But I think it was also a very specific time time,
Speaker 2: and you guys were in a very specific circumstances because
Speaker 2: you were on this particular show that struck a particular chord.
Speaker 3: Everyone was fascinated with everything you guys were doing.
Speaker 1: It's true, and I mean, in a way, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And I did have a friend who was on a
Speaker 1: different show. I don't feel like I should name him,
Speaker 1: but he was on a different show that had that
Speaker 1: level and they followed him around and everything, and then
Speaker 1: he the show ended, and I remember him saying to
Speaker 1: me and not they stopped following him because then he
Speaker 1: got married and had kids and they went through that.
Speaker 1: But he did say after a few years, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, the thing that's important to remember is that
Speaker 1: this is a moment in time. It's not going to
Speaker 1: go on forever. And that's you don't feel that when
Speaker 1: you're being chased, but you do have to go like,
Speaker 1: this is a moment in time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's not going to go on.
Speaker 1: Forever, and they're not going to hurt me. You know,
Speaker 1: you have to like have a whole talk with yourself.
Speaker 1: And of course obviously they didn't hurt me and some
Speaker 1: of the organizer than others.
Speaker 2: And did you did you have a good therapist? And
Speaker 2: because I would know, I'm serious, like I would imagine
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 1: I did have a good therapist for a long time,
Speaker 1: and then once once I adopted my daughter, then like
Speaker 1: you don't have time for your own therapy, But not
Speaker 1: to say that I didn't need it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Back to your question, I think that was
Speaker 1: part of how I decided, Like you know, let's close
Speaker 1: out some of that stuff in the house, right, Like,
Speaker 1: let's not let it kind of come in as much.
Speaker 1: And I think I was much more into I didn't
Speaker 1: really read reviews so much, like people would just tell
Speaker 1: me about them usually, you know, because you can't really
Speaker 1: get away from them. But like I would watch ET
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, stuff like that because Michael Patrick
Speaker 1: used to call it our news, like it was our
Speaker 1: news show, you know, which is now like all of
Speaker 1: social media is entertainment news. But back then I used
Speaker 1: to watch stuff like that, And I do think there
Speaker 1: was a part of me where I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't want my child to know me as that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to have our own bubble as much
Speaker 1: as we can, you know. And I tried to, like
Speaker 1: for a long time, like sometimes you know, people would
Speaker 1: come up to us and say, you know how people
Speaker 1: talk to you like they know you, and then they'd
Speaker 1: walk away, and I just try to be really if
Speaker 1: my daughter and now I have a son too, if
Speaker 1: they were there, I would just try to like make
Speaker 1: it as brief as possible and keep going and GENER
Speaker 1: would just be like, do you know her? They'd be like, no, baby,
Speaker 1: I don't know her not and they'd be oh. And
Speaker 1: then one time, this was one of those light bulb
Speaker 1: moments for her. We were I had an apartment in
Speaker 1: New York still the show was done. I was there
Speaker 1: promoting like a Christmas movie or something. It was Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Our apartment was on Central Park West where they would
Speaker 1: prepare the flow first yeah, for the parade, which is
Speaker 1: really cool. But we were trying to fly to my
Speaker 1: mom's on Thanksgiving and the streets were closed, right, so
Speaker 1: we had to like kind of run through the crowd
Speaker 1: to get to our car, and all the police were
Speaker 1: there right with the barricades whatever, and all the police
Speaker 1: were like, hey, you know, the New York police are
Speaker 1: like so nice, you know, and so they said let's
Speaker 1: take every you take a picture and I was like sure, shark,
Speaker 1: because it's the police, right. And Jama was just standing
Speaker 1: there like what is going on?
Speaker 3: Like why the police? What the car? It was really weird.
Speaker 1: And then my other really funny moment a similar age.
Speaker 1: She's like probably seven to eight, right. We were on
Speaker 1: a plane going somewhere and we're in those first class
Speaker 1: with a big screen. She's sitting next to me and
Speaker 1: there's a lady in front watching one of our things,
Speaker 1: and she leans over and she's like, mom, that lady
Speaker 1: on the screen looks like you.
Speaker 3: I was like, yes, you know, it is it is me.
Speaker 1: It is me. She's like, whoa what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: What am I about to do? Like which episode?
Speaker 3: Like what's happening? What's happening?
Speaker 1: And I think it was maybe the first movie. And
Speaker 1: then I was like, Okay, it's going to be fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then she had met the others, like socially right,
Speaker 1: so she was just like, Mommy's on the screen.
Speaker 3: With her friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, which was a great way to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's a that's a really nice way
Speaker 2: to go exactly. Mom and her friends just happened to
Speaker 2: be very popular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they happened to get to work together. How amazing.
Speaker 1: And then as time goes on, obviously you're not able
Speaker 1: to keep that.
Speaker 3: I remember one time also, this was funny.
Speaker 1: I have my elephant charity, which I mentioned to you earlier,
Speaker 1: and one time they asked Emma at school, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's going around seeing what their parents did, and she said,
Speaker 1: my mommy works for the elephants.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, what are great to think your mom?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean now she knows the truth. But you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, So I just I just did
Speaker 1: just Fanny. She's fourteen now and he's seven, and he
Speaker 1: didn't really get what's his name? His name is Wilson. Yes,
Speaker 1: very hard to name a boy child. Did you have
Speaker 1: a hard time naming your We.
Speaker 3: Did, yes, Graham is his name good? It's a good name.
Speaker 1: It's a good name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were we we had a few contenders, but
Speaker 2: that and I forget what. Well, but where I discovered
Speaker 2: it came from I think was maybe Graham Chapman from
Speaker 2: Monty Python, Graham Parsons, but we were never quite sure
Speaker 2: where it came from.
Speaker 1: Back they just come, they just come. It took me
Speaker 1: weeks to name my child. My mom was really mad
Speaker 1: at me.
Speaker 3: They just so much.
Speaker 1: At the beginning, I thought it was after August Wilson.
Speaker 1: You know, you have these ideas, right, You're like, ex
Speaker 1: after August Wilson. Well, I don't think.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: He is like a basketball obsessed and he's like, mommy.
Speaker 3: My name is on the basketball and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: there it is. He has not I wanted to. I
Speaker 3: think it's it's so good if you haven't seen.
Speaker 1: It that while I mean it is so good, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt his feelings, it, right, Okay, I mean it
Speaker 1: really gets Tom Hanks through right right.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's great, okay, great, okay, good good good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No he has not he so he hasn't seen.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was not there. It might be a
Speaker 1: lot to ask, but he when we did the show,
Speaker 1: the and just like that, you know, he went, they
Speaker 1: would come with us in the summer and enjoy, you know,
Speaker 1: the New York of it all when you're working, which
Speaker 1: is fun. He was confused, you know. He'd come to
Speaker 1: work and he knew Michael Patrick by then and he'd
Speaker 1: be like, you know, there's all this food and snats,
Speaker 1: and mommy's friends are here. And then when they were
Speaker 1: promoting it, they put us on the bus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're going to school with it. And he said, mommy,
Speaker 3: what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Why are you and your friends in the bus? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, remember in New York we
Speaker 1: were working that that that's it. He was like, oh,
Speaker 1: but I mean.
Speaker 3: I don't It is so strange.
Speaker 2: I always thought that the main thing that I felt
Speaker 2: like I wanted to sort of when they were little,
Speaker 2: protect them from. Was the idea of having to share
Speaker 2: your yes. Yes, That I think is the thing where
Speaker 2: it's a little dicey for them. It's like, well, wait
Speaker 2: a second.
Speaker 3: Definitely you're my dad or definitely yeah.
Speaker 2: And people are coming up for a picture or whatever. Right,
Speaker 2: it's sort of like you're supposed to you know, that
Speaker 2: thing when you were a little I remember that feeling
Speaker 2: of not wanting my mom to go and talk to
Speaker 2: other kids or were of course, you know whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why I try not to, like, if they're there,
Speaker 1: I just try to have a boundary that I don't
Speaker 1: take pictures with people. I always feel terribly guilty, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know when they were little, I did the
Speaker 3: same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nine years older, my fourteen year old is now
Speaker 1: hyper aware, like if we're somewhere and there's a group
Speaker 1: of young women who have figured me out or whatever,
Speaker 1: she's like, Mom, go that's right, She's like, go, she's
Speaker 1: so cutely protected, does she?
Speaker 2: Because my kids did the same thing, and then they
Speaker 2: got to the point where because I always said a
Speaker 2: note of pictures when they were around, and then they
Speaker 2: came to a point where they were like, dad, take
Speaker 2: a picture, they want to a picture. Go and they
Speaker 2: were like very like they were like my publicist or
Speaker 2: like they wanted to see the interaction.
Speaker 3: They found it.
Speaker 1: Interesting interesting, Well with severance, it must be because like
Speaker 1: parks and rec and then and then said, but sever
Speaker 1: seems like to be like lunatic level fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they they're they're uh, they're very it's a
Speaker 2: really dedicated. The fans are unbelievably creative. I see the theories, yes,
Speaker 2: but also that they create a lot of art online
Speaker 2: and posted on like Instagram and stuff that the drawings and.
Speaker 3: And the videos. Wow, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the fandom around the show has been super interesting,
Speaker 2: but it's all very intelligent. So it's never gotten to
Speaker 2: a place it's all it's all really I think. Great,
Speaker 2: it's a really smart.
Speaker 3: Because the show.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing that's amazing about the success
Speaker 1: of the show is that it's like way too smart.
Speaker 1: Like you would never look at that show and think
Speaker 1: like this is going to be huge, you.
Speaker 3: Know, right right? Yeah it was. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 3: big surprise. It's amazing. It's amazing, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah,