Kristen Davis (3:10)
Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, and I want to know, are you a Charlotte? Alrighty. We're going to just answer some questions that came from fans, which is always fun. Thank you guys for sending me any questions. And let's do it some more. Okay. All right, here's the first one. If Charlotte was to take your her younger self out to coffee, what would you say to her younger self? Apparently, this is a trend on social media, which is kind of funny. I like the trend. If I were to take younger Charlotte out to coffee, I would say, relax, it's all gonna work out. It's gonna be a bumpy road, but you're tougher than you think. That's what I would say to her and probably what I would say to my own self as well. And probably what I. Probably everyone would say that to their younger selves. I don't know. But I think that. I think that's definitely what I would say to younger, younger Charlotte because she's obviously so worried about her goals and so focused on her goals that almost to the point where she can't see what's really real in front of her. So I would say focus less on your goals. It's all going to work out. I think that's what I would say. Okay, My favorite outfit for Charlotte and then for the other ladies. Okay. Very hard to pick favorites. People ask me this very often. Everyone knows I love the lipstick skirt. One time I did have this Oscar de la Renta dress. It was black lace, I believe I wear it in the first movie to Carrie's engagement party or like night before the wedding party. That's what it's not. Engagement party, I don't think. Is it? I don't know. I wear it. It's got lace. It's got a deep V neck. I wish I had that dress. It's one of the few things I don't have. Oh, my God. We gave it back to Oscar de la Renta. It was before Oscar himself passed away. He was such a lovely man and I just wish I had that dress because it was one of my all time favorites, though. I've loved every Oscar de la Renta dress I've ever worn. In terms of the other ladies favorites. Oh, it's tough. But you know, weirdly. Yeah. I'm rewatching the first season, as you guys know. And the other day, Sarah Jessica was wearing this butter yellow dress. It's definitely the color of yellow that is very on trend right now. And it looks almost like a nurse's uniform. It's kind of like a cotton dress. She just has a belt with it. Her hair is in this very cool, kind of pulled back on the sides, curly. It's her natural curls. I love this outfit so much. I don't remember this outfit. It's very, very simple for her, but I just love it. I mean, she looks good and everything. As you guys know. She can make a paper bag look good, obviously. I mean, there's so many outfits that she wears that I love. But sometimes when I'm rewatching, I love the really basic everyday things she wears because she just has a way of making them all look amazing and styling them just so. And sometimes she messes with her clothes on camera. Like she'll fix her collar or she'll kind of pull on her shirt and it's. It's super interesting. It's not something that I was ever aware of then, but it's kind of unusual because as actors, we're kind of somewhat, possibly the costume people don't want us to do that, but it is something that people every day do. But it's just like tucking your hair behind your ears. Like in every day, people always tuck their hair behind their ears. If you have long hair, but they don't really want you to do this when you're acting because then in continuity you have to make sure that you do it at the exact same time in the scene that you did it before because you're going to film it from a different angle. And if your hair doesn't match, it's going to mean that it's not editable. Right. You can't cut it together. So the continuity people get very stressed out when you tuck your hair behind your ears. But in reality, this is something everybody does. So it's one of those really Awkward things as an actor where you want to do it because this is normal life. You're trying to be as normal as you can be, but then it causes production problems. So I love her in her everyday clothes, and I love when she messes with her clothes. Other. Other outfits for them. Well, listen, when Kim wears the lingerie and the fur coat, when she comes to my apartment, I. I'm still in the first season. It's all in my mind. It's incredible. And the funny thing is that I do tend to think of the first season as not really being kind of fully formed in terms of our style yet, because we weren't able to borrow clothes because no one knew what the show was. And this. I don't know what that coat is. I don't know where they got that coat and what lingerie she's wearing, but it could not be more incredible out there on Fifth Avenue or whatever. It's supposed to be Central Park West. I think it was actually Fifth Avenue, though. But it's so great and powerful and, you know, I don't use this word lightly, but iconic. Let's see, for Miranda, I don't know that we've come across any, like, complete favorites yet in Miranda's first season. We're maybe her suit in the beginning, in the pilot, it's gray, and she's got a Reebok, so. And I'm gonna go with that. I. You know what I really love? I love these crazy overalls that are coming that people wear on Halloween. Now she's got, like, overalls and, like, a puffy coat, and I don't know how come she's wearing that. I don't remember why. I don't know why Pat let her wear it. It's really funny. I think she might have a baseball cap on. I really love those funny, really weird Miranda outfits. But I also really love her bridesmaids dress for Carrie's wedding. Um, it's like that beautiful, strong periwinkle blue is a Zac Posen dress. If it's in this so beautifully and looks so gorgeous with her hair and her skin is just glowing, it's very beautiful dress. Those come to mind. But, you know, ask me tomorrow, and I'll have you a different set of answers. Okay. Can I define the Charlotte aesthetic? Yes, yes, sure. The Charlotte aesthetic, which defines. Definitely is not happening yet in first season so much. I mean, a little bit, but not a lot. Her look is that she likes something that's structured and starchy, like, you know, crisp cottons, an A Line skirt. As time goes on. A tighter skirt. Pat, you know, kind of talked me into it as time went on. But in the beginning, I like crisp, a line skirt, a wide belt cinched in. Like, if my belt is not cinched in when I'm working, I just don't even feel like I'm Charlotte. Basically. She loves white, black, red. I'm a winter, so Charlotte likes winter type colors. Pat and Molly have always enjoyed putting me in, like, blues, like soft powder blues. I don't really love them on myself, to tell you the truth, but they're always trying, so I still kind of let Molly do it. Love pink, obviously. Don't. Don't even have to say that. Charlotte also likes a little bit of whimsy in her outfit. So, like in the original show, I used to have all these cute little Peter Pan type collar shirts that were miu Miu, I feel like. And they had little. Little, like, sequins and things sewn on them. Obviously. I love Prada. The Prada lipstick skirt. Kind of a little bit tongue in cheek, just to, you know, have some kind of sense of humor about her clothes, I guess. Also really loves, wait, pearls, which sometimes is a problem because also Carrie loves pearls. So I have to pick and choose where I'm gonna wear the pearls. But pearls obviously make perfect sense as Charlotte is the, you know, Park Avenue girl. What else? She's very into her diamonds. Goodness. As time goes on. Wow. We've got a really incredible set of jewelry for Miss Charlotte. Sometimes I'm just blown away by her jewels. She loves her Cartier watch. She's had some incredible jewelry over the years. She's definitely a jewelry girl. And I was gonna say something else, but it went out of my mind. But, you know, she loves her Manolo pumps. We've got every color of those things. I've been building my collection for many years, me and Charlotte. Also building the collection of Manolo pumps. Suede, patent, regular leather, all of them. But I think. I think I was mostly just going to say there's a little bit of whimsy in Charlotte's look, which I think people forget when they think about the structure, which is also very true. But I have a lot of kind of whimsical, funny little pieces. Like, I had this beautiful bow necklace that was made of diamonds way before bows were popular. It's a really good one. I think it was possibly Dior jewelry. I'm not sure. Like, she just likes, like, girly things that are just a little bit, you know, kooky. I guess would be a word. Okay, next question. Oh, this is an odd one. If Charlotte were to date any of the other ladies, men, who would it be? Okay, so definitely that would be a big no. No. And one of the only notes that I ever remember HBO giving to the show, like as a storyline from our read. Read through. We would always do a read through where they would come or. Or have someone there right, to listen. There was this storyline where I think it was Miranda and Carrie both like the same guy, or one of them dated the guy and then the other one dates the guy, but then the other one doesn't want her to date a guy. I can't remember. But they argue about a guy. And HBO said, absolutely not. The women will never be arguing over a guy. And that was really smart of them. And I'm really glad they did it because we've just seen so much of that in film and television and it's just kind of ick, you know? And I don't really feel like it happens that much in life because I think that women know not to date people that their other friends have dated, you know, so that's one. Okay. Do I think I could have played any of the other characters? Definitely no. I think I've covered this already. They did send it to me for Carrie at one point. And I definitely do never, ever, ever think in my wildest dreams I could ever pull off Miranda or Samantha and not even Carrie. So only Charlotte for me, for sure. What is something you wish Charlotte would have gotten the chance to do, but it didn't happen. Okay, I do think I've said this publicly, so I'm gonna say it again. I hope I don't get in trouble with Michael Patrick. But when we were trying to plan the films, there were many times that we were trying to plan a film, and then it didn't happen. And then eventually, obviously, the two films that you guys have hopefully seen happened. But there was gonna be a film in Michael Patrick's mind where right at the. If we had done the film immediately after the end of the series and Charlotte had adopted Lily with Harry, and Michael planned that Harry. No, Harry didn't go. Charlotte was going to take Lily to China so that she could see where she came from. And they were going to have to go into the countryside and Michael had this idea for some reason that I was going to have to try get an ox across a river in the mud. I don't know why he had this idea, but he did. And I was like, yeah, let's do it. And then I would have to take Charlotte would have to take a train back to, you know, Beijing or whatever to get her flight back and she would feel seasick on the train or, you know, like motion sickness and it would turn out that she was pregnant and that's how she would find out that she was pregnant with Rose, who then eventually changes into Rock. That was how the storyline was going to go down. Now I don't know if he ever asked New Line if we could go film in China. I have no idea how far he got with the storyline, but I did think it was really, really fun. And I so desperately wanted to do it. And I was sad that we didn't get to do it, but we got to do other very cool storylines in our movies, so it all worked out. But in my mind, it's almost like I did get to do it or like Charlotte did get to do it because I have a very, very vivid image of what he described to me.
