SATC's Kristin Davis Had to 'Work' at Being Happily Married Charlotte

June 2024 · 3 minute read

Kristin Davis’ position as Charlotte York on Sex and the City cemented her as a Hollywood megastar — nevertheless it wasn’t always easy for her to hook up with the nature.

“We have very different lifestyles. I’m now not married. I've never been married,” Davis, 58, said all through the Monday, July 10, episode of the “Best Friend Energy” podcast. “It’s now not my thing. I used to be by no means occupied with it. It was by no means a purpose, let’s say.”

Although Davis feels that the “real essence” of her personality is “the same” as Charlotte, she confessed that it “took some performing” to seamlessly portray a married girl and hopeless romantic on screen. (Single mother Davis adopted her daughter, Gemma, and son, Wilson, in 2011 and 2018, respectively.)

“I might stress out on those days,” Davis — who played Charlotte on SATC from 1998 to 2004 earlier than reprising the function for And Just Like That in 2021 — recalled. “I might have a paragraph on a page of [the script with] the principles and the marriage [lingo]. And oh, my God, I'd just be like, ‘How am I going to do that and make it real and believable?'”

The actress noted that her upbringing in the South helped her connect to Charlotte’s want to be a wife above all else. Still, “it definitely took some paintings to start with,” she mentioned.

During season 3, Charlotte married Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan) but the pair later divorced. Charlotte moved on along with her divorce attorney, Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler), whom she wed all the way through season 6. Charlotte and Harry proportion two children.

“I knew other people like that. I knew it was real. Charlotte was once didactic. She was one hundred % faithful,” Davis informed listeners. “I sought after you to see the will that used to be beneath that. I liked the place it went.”

She described Charlotte’s first husband as “not best” regardless of his social standing and web worth but gushed over “wonderful Harry,” her personality’s true match.

While Davis struggled to perfect Charlotte’s interest for the stereotypical happy ending, she published that she did “love” the nature’s first wedding ceremony.

“I’m no longer really a wedding girl however, you recognize, Charlotte loved it, so I beloved it,” she stated. “I consider the experience of taking pictures the marriage. I must have attempted on 35 Vera Wang attire.”

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Charlotte’s final choice of the tulle and lace-adorned gown, alternatively, didn’t align with Davis’ private taste. “The poof one gained and it was simply, like, any such weird thing because it’s no longer my factor at all,” she admitted. “I might by no means wear that get dressed if I did get married. I'd now not be dressed in that veil. But I was trustworthy to it.”

And Just Like That airs on Max Thursdays.

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