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Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, and I want to know, are you a Charlotte?
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Today we have a very special guest. Everybody on Are youe a Charlotte? We have the incredible Kane Peterson.
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You may remember him from a very,
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very fun episode in the middle of season three called Hot Child in the City. He plays the comic book store owner that Carrie ends up dating, and there's pot involved and all kinds of fun things. Kane is a great guy. He's super interesting. He is a radio personality, an actor, and a podcaster, and this is one of his biggest acting jobs. So it's really, really fun to hear his take on the whole experience. He has a lot of memories. Please join me and listen to my
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conversation with the fantastic Kane Peterson. Hi.
Kane Peterson
Hi. How are you?
I'm good.
Bowen Yang
How are you?
Kane Peterson
Wow, your sound is incredible.
Is it good?
We knew it would be.
I use it because I have a podcast and I record my radio show out of here, too, so it has to be.
I saw. I'm so fascinated. I need to hear your whole story.
Well, I'll give it to you. I'll try not to bore you, but, you know.
No, you're not gonna bore me. Tell me everything. Go back, go back. Go back in time.
Okay.
To when you were on Sex and the City.
Okay.
Because you're great.
Really, Because I just. Thank you so much for saying that. I just watched it again maybe like an hour ago and because I really. I've probably seen it, like, I sat down with the family the first time it premiered and it was a big to do. Right? It was fantastic. And I was so critical that I couldn't really enjoy it. You know what I mean?
Kristen Davis
Like, I do.
Kane Peterson
And so I. I would just see it in bits and pieces here and there. I'd watch part of it and go like, ah, I could have read that better. I could have done that better. And then I'd get embarrassed. I'd shut it off and then. But I watched it this last time now, an hour ago, and I. I gave myself some grace. It was. It was fantastic episode. And not just me, though, but like the entire episode, every storyline was hilarious.
Kristen Davis
I agree.
Kane Peterson
You're Rebecca and Schooner. And I mean that. That whole thing was fantastic.
I agree.
Kristen Davis
I agree.
Kane Peterson
I love that episode. And I hadn't really remembered it that well because it's kind of a bit of a departure from. From our norm in a really interesting way. And I don't ever think I met you, which I think because we just didn't work together.
Kristen Davis
Right?
Kane Peterson
No. Yeah. We didn't have any lines together. And I was. I was hoping that I would get the chance, but there was one day where I thought I might, because this is how great Sarah Jessica was. And not. I'm probably going to go all over the place here, but cool. I thought I would meet you here. She had found out. I didn't tell her, but she had found out that it was my birthday. And so we're at Silver Cup Studios. Right, Right. And I. And I get it to lunch, and I felt just like I was in junior high again. I could never sit with the cool kids. I didn't know anybody. I didn't know where to go. And all of a sudden. Yeah. All of a sudden I hear, hey, Kane. And it was Sarah Jessica calling me over to the table, and she had got me a birthday cake.
Oh, yay.
Yeah. And there were so many people there, like, crew and stuff, and it was. Yeah, it was fantastic. Yeah, that's how sweet.
Kristen Davis
She.
Kane Peterson
You met her in the audition process. What was that like?
Yeah, the first time I went in, I. Because I was always. I was in VH1 at the time, and I'm a radio guy at heart, and my agent called me one day, and he goes, hey, do you want to go audition for Sex in the City? I'm like, what's that? You know, I'm a cool guy on Howard Stern's rock radio station. You know, I don't. I don't know what that is. My. Sure, I'll go. And I auditioned, and, yeah, I just wore what I usually wear and didn't really give it much thought.
Kristen Davis
And.
Kane Peterson
And my boss calls or my agent calls me a couple days later. He goes, yeah, you got a call back. I'm like, oh, what does that mean? They want you to go read again? They want you to read with Sarah. I'm like, oh, all right, cool. So I show up then for that second audition, and I'm sitting in the lobby. You've probably had these experiences maybe, like, way back, you know.
Kristen Davis
Oh, yes.
Kane Peterson
You're sitting there and you're looking at everybody. I recognize people who are in this audition room. I'd never done this before. I'm sitting there going, I'm Never gonna get this. There's a kid from Kids in the hall on one chair.
Wow.
There's Adam Goldberg. You know, the crazy roommate from Friends. Chandler's roommate. He's there. I'm like, these are people that I know who I. What. What am I doing here? Almost got up and left, but I went in and I auditioned with her, and there's a room full of people, and I'm too stupid to be nervous. Too ignorant to be nervous.
Fantastic.
Right? I know.
Bowen Yang
That's.
Kane Peterson
Thank God. And we. We had some laughs, and they laughed and clapped. Whatever. I. I left, and I get the call. It's like, yeah, you got it. And then talking to Sarah later, like, during the filming, she said, by the way, we kind of knew you had it once you walked in the room before you even auditioned. They're like, daddy, that's him. I guess you had.
Kristen Davis
Love it.
Kane Peterson
See, I didn't know how acting works. I'm like, apparently, you guys have in your head already what the character looks like. And so what I brought to it, I guess she goes, you would have really had to be super bad to not get that gig.
But I do think. I do think it's a weird thing. I think it's partly because. Because you also weren't nervous. Right. Because sometimes I think people can really fit all of the parameters, but then are so shut down, which I've definitely gone through myself. Right. Like, the nerves just shut you fully down. Right. And that obviously doesn't help people feel like you like your vibe, but you were just so perfectly cast. You're just so great in it.
Thank you. Thank you.
It's so good. And you and she have such great chemistry. It was exciting.
It was so great. Like, thank you so much for saying that, because it's really. It was. It was a highlight of my life. I remember being on the. On set, had a trailer with my name on it. I'm like, oh, my God, this is so weird.
Nice.
We filmed over my birthday. July 19th of 2000.
Kristen Davis
Yeah.
Kane Peterson
And I'm in the trailer, and I call Mom. You know, I go, mom, you'll never guess, like, the first time you got a cell phone in your car. Guess where I am. I'm in my car. I was. I'm in. I'm in a trailer with my name on it. I'm like, I told my mom, too. I'm like, this is probably the apex. It's probably not going to get any better than this. And it was a great moment we had on the phone and not in a Bad way. It was just like. And it turns out that was an absolute highlight of my career.
I'm so glad. I mean, this is why we wanted to talk to you because you're a very unique character in our whole scheme of things. And that was one of the fun things about the show is that there weren't that many shows filming at the time in New York. There was Law and Order, so very cop, cop, cop. And then us very different. And once we really got going and kind of found our, our, our vibe, our role, our niche, we really got to kind of pick and choose who we wanted to some extent. And you're just so perfect. And then I was like, where is that Kane guy? We got to talk to him. And you have this whole, whole world that you have. Have created since then. It's super interesting.
Was. It wasn't really a stretch role wise for me. I mean, that was pretty much who I, who I am. I'm kind of a goober. But can I ask you a question about the episode itself? Because you mentioned it earlier. You said like the episode was. It's so very different from a lot of the other ones. And I looked it up. I remembered his name was Alan, but the guy who wrote it was Alan Heinberg.
Kristen Davis
Yeah.
Kane Peterson
And so many people who have come up to me and told me, a lot of people say it's their favorite episode. And a lot of people also say it's so much different than all the other episodes. And I never really explained it, but in my head. And what other people have told me, it's because, like, Alan wrote this one episode and then didn't write any others. And I don't know why he never wrote any others. But is that. Was that what you attribute it to?
Is like, yes, you're absolutely correct. So Alan is a great guy. He is super into comic books and whatnot. He's gone on to run shows that are based on kind of comic novellas. I don't even know how I should be describing them, but he's had quite a career in his niche. Right. And I don't know how he came. I should find Alan and ask him. I don't know how he came on to our show, but sometimes our writer's room, Michael Patrick King, our executive producer, would kind of just want another voice in. Right. Cause mostly we had women and then we had Darren Starr and Michael Patrick. Darren had created the show. Michael was our showrunner. And he would think, you know what, we need a straight guy's voice or we need another guy's voice or, you know, whatever. So he would bring different people in and they might only write one. Maybe they spent some time in the writers room just like, you know, talking about ideas.
Kristen Davis
Right.
Kane Peterson
But they would be assigned one. And this was his baby, where he got to just create what he wanted to create. And what I do remember about the episode, which is so trivial, but the summer before, we had been filming in New York and it was one of those crazy hot summers. You know how some summers are just like really hot and the whole city smells bad?
I was going to say putrid. Yes.
Yeah, exactly. The summer before had been that. And so this episode called Hot Child in the City, where you guys spray each other with the hose on your mom's balcony, which is all so hysterical. It was supposed to be really hot based on last summer, but it wasn't. That's what I remember about it.
Oh, really? It was hot enough to where I wasn't like bitching about getting wet.
Right, right, right, right. But it wasn't like the year before where we were just sweating, you know, just like, just so uncomfortable. But I love the episode because it is so different. And I love it right from the get go, when she goes, she's going to try to find her dry cleaning. And like, you have that. Those moments where you go to somewhere in New York and it's gone. You're like, wait, wait, where's the place that I used to. And in its place is your character's comic store, which is so adorable.
Yeah.
I mean, did you love all that? What'd you think?
Yeah, I mean, you know, here's what's funny about it is I'm looking at it now and I'm remembering, you know how when you watch yourself in something and you can remember, it's hard to actually watch it for what it is because as you're watching it, you're thinking about what was going on that day or. I remember filming that. Right?
Kristen Davis
Yes.
Kane Peterson
And so I'm watching it now. I've been so far removed. So I'm watching it going like, God, why wasn't I. Why wasn't I more nervous? I remember not even like, I feel like I didn't appreciate it. I feel like I didn't soak it in because it was just so. Everyone's telling you what to do and it's new and I go, oh, I go here. Oh, I go there. Like, it was so, I don't know, just mechanical that. That I really didn't appreciate it. Now watching it back now, I'M like okay, I, I kind of get what I was thinking at the time and. But that was the very first thing we ever shot. We just started with that scene and well, it's perfect.
You're perfect. You're amazing.
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I do think though, as an actor, because you're trying to do so many different things, right? And there are so many people telling you what you need to do and then you have your own interior life. It's very hard to actually soak it in also and do your job.
Yeah. You know, I don't remember getting a whole lot of direction. Like I would read the line and, you know, I'd mess something up or whatever. And of course she never messed anything up. It was always me. And I, you know, they would just say, oh, do it again. But maybe with a. There wasn't like I was so worried about, oh, I'm not going to be able to follow their instruction. It's going to be totally opposite of what I, what's coming natural. But no, there was none of that. And, and it was, here was the best direction anybody gave me. It was Sarah, the bedroom scene where she takes me home for the first time. And so we're on our knees on the bed and right before they yell, action. She leans in and she goes, no tongue. And I go, I wasn't gonna. I was like, I'd never done it before, but I was aware, I knew that I probably shouldn't stick my tongue down her throat. And I wasn't going to, but that was.
I think that's good. I think that's good. And she was just trying to be professional and polite, like, I, I, maybe I should tell him. You know what I mean? I think that's good. That's really good. I'm glad that they didn't over direct you because I do think that's part of what is so incredibly winning about your performance, is that you seem like a regular guy. And it's really refreshing on our show, you know?
Yeah, thank you. I, I took that. I got a lot of auditions after that.
Did you? What happened? What was it like?
Well, I got the taste and now all of a sudden I'm like, well, maybe, maybe I do want to be an actor. So, you know, William Morris, my agent at the time, was all hopped up on me now. You know, I got, I got an acting role the first time I ever tried out for one. Which is unheard of.
Unheard of. Absolutely.
I'm sorry. I don't know how many actors I told that story to. And they just were so mad. They're like, that's, that ain't how it works. But so I kept flying out to LA for pilot season, like, you know, every year and trying out for this and that. And, you know, it's weird. You probably, I'm sure you've gone through this, things you've tried out for, but maybe didn't get. And then you watch it, you see the movie and it comes to the scene that you read for. Isn't that weird? You like, I was watching a, I was watching a Kieran Culkin movie. Like, this was like a few months ago, and all of a sudden there was a scene that was super familiar. And I'm like. Cause I saved all my scripts. I'm like, what are you.
Kristen Davis
Oh, wow.
Kane Peterson
I auditioned for it. It was just weird to hear those words.
Yeah, it is weird.
I almost got. Remember Will and Grace when.
Yes, I was on Will and Grace.
Grace's character dates Woody Harrelson. Yes, that was mine. And then they were like, they were like, well, they called and said, Woody Harrelson wants to do it. He said he would do it. Of course, you gotta go with Woody. And they were afraid I was a bit too green still for an arc because it Was multiple episodes.
Yeah.
So I came close. That was the closest I got to getting something else. And if I get that, who knows? Maybe something else changes. I'm doing great now. I love radio, and I love all the stuff that I'm doing.
But, I mean, you're doing incredible. You have a podcast.
Yeah.
You're on the forefront of all the things that everybody's doing. You have a great voice. So I see why all the things. But I'm sad for us that you didn't work more, because I think you're very interesting working our side. But it's good that you get to do what you're doing and that you love it.
Yeah. I got another. Another. Another great Sarah. Because people always ask me, how was Sarah? How was Sarah? And so I think this is another great story that. With the birthday story that talks. Speaks to about what a great person she is.
Kristen Davis
Yeah.
Kane Peterson
So the first day that I show up, we're sitting in the makeup trailer, and she's there, and she's already sitting there. And she was so friendly. First thing. One of the first things she said was like, wow, your arms. Because I had. I was working out a lot then.
Kristen Davis
Yeah.
Kane Peterson
So she complimented right there. Like, sets me up for a great day. Right. And we just start talking. We realize we have baseball in common and stuff, and.
Kristen Davis
Oh, she loves.
Kane Peterson
Yeah.
Kristen Davis
Yes.
Kane Peterson
She loves her Yankees and stuff. Probably still does, Right? Of course. That's fandom. Once you're a fan, you're always a fan.
Kristen Davis
Totally.
Kane Peterson
And I come back the next day, and all of a sudden she's rattling because she asked me what my favorite team was. I grew up in Minnesota, so I said, it's Minnesota Twins. So I sit down the next day, and she's rattling off all these. She goes, oh, I see the Twins lost. Oh. But so and so had a great game. Oh. And so and so pitched like 4.7. Whatever it was. I'm like, how do you know all my Twins players? She goes, I looked at the box score. I wanted to be able to talk about it today.
Wow.
Isn't that great?
It's impressive because, let me tell you, we were not talking to her about stuff like that. She could not get her. Her baseball facts into our conversation. It would have just been like, whoosh. So I do think. I think the thing about Sarah, I mean, there's so many incredible things about her, and sometimes people are like, oh, you know, that's not real, or whatever. People are so cynical, you know, now I think they just think that everything's Fake. Right. And it's not. She's a good person. She was a good person before the show. She was a good person during the show. She's still a good person. She's a very professional person, you know, like, she's been working since she was, I think, nine or something like this. And, you know.
Kristen Davis
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Kane Peterson
She knows her lines perfectly. Can be quite intimidating. Right. Like, I would always mess up mine and feel so bad because she had so many more than me, but I'm the one messing up. Right?
I know.
But on the other hand, it's a great example. Like, she's just so solid, you know? But she's also so kind of thoughtful and personable that she would think, like, oh, he's coming on my show and he likes baseball. I'm gonna read my stats today. Like, that's very her. She's very thoughtful, and it's lovely. And I feel sometimes, like, when people become really, really, really well known and they're on the COVID of magazines and everything, they just seem bigger. They're not really real. And I get that. I get that our culture kind of does that to them, you know, Pop culture. But there's still a real person in there, you know, with feelings and thoughts, and they're thoughtful and they're complex, and they're all the things. And I'm so glad that. That you had a great experience. I would have thought nothing less, watching your chemistry. Right. Like, when I watch you and her, she is so free, you know? Like, there's a freedom and a playfulness that you brought out in her.
Oh, cool.
Yeah. It was really, really. I hadn't remembered all that, watching it. That's what's fun about rewatching.
Right.
Like, much later. And I'm the same as you. Like, when I rewatch myself, I'm like, oh, no, I was okay. I was okay.
Yeah.
Which is really nice, because at the time, I'm just like, oh, I don't like how I did that.
You know, turned out. I could have read that better.
Exactly. Or I should have turned at this point or whatever. Like, you can somehow redo it, which obviously you can't.
Kristen Davis
But. Yeah.
Kane Peterson
Now all these many years later, I can absolutely say, like, that was really. Oh, my gosh. I didn't know. I was so happy.
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Yeah. There was one scene where it was the. We were walking through the arcade.
Yeah.
Barcode, you know, we're just. We got a beer. We're just, you know, we're just shooting the breeze, you know, talking, whatever. And that was. That Was my favorite scenery. Watching it because it was so natural. I was convinced watching that, that, like, oh, yeah, these two are on a date and these two are. These two are having a good time. And then I remember when we got in the ride at the end of that scene and it starts to close. I remember. I remember looking. That wasn't. That wasn't in the script where I go, here we go. And then she laughs. And then she laughs. I just. I don't know why I said that, but I was just in the mope. Right. You know, I just love it.
Yeah.
I forgot I was acting. We're just hanging out. Here we go. The ride's gonna be fun. So. So that, you know, speaks to what you said about.
Kristen Davis
Yeah.
Kane Peterson
Just looking play and bringing out the playfulness in her.
The other thing that I love about your character, and I assume also your actual just person. And you're so now, like, that character. You've got the scooter. You're scooting through Barcode, which is like our whole world now. You know what I'm saying? The comics, which then, like, Marvel wasn't even a thing. Like, it was a little culty thing or whatever. It wasn't the church.
Kristen Davis
Right.
Kane Peterson
Like, the night. This is 2000, I think that we filmed this.
Yeah, 2000.
So it's. You're very on the cusp of all of the things that came.
Video games before you had to go to Barcode to the arcade to play them. I would go to Barcode today. That place was awesome.
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I know.
Kane Peterson
It's still there, I think.
Is it? No, I don't think it is.
Is it not there? Okay. See, this is not my area.
You're in la, right?
I'm in la. But even when I'm in New York, I would not go to Times Square because wasn't it, like, right in the middle of Times Square?
Yeah, only tourists go to Times Square. I lived in hell's kitchen for 10 years. I lived in Hell's Kitchen during the shooting of that. And.
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Kane Peterson
You know, that's the west side of.
Yeah, of course I know.
Clinton is what you're supposed to get if you get in the back of a cab. They call it Clinton. I'm like, where? Why? Why does that say Clinton?
Kristen Davis
I know.
Kane Peterson
I do not like the new names. I do not. I do not. I find it very confusing.
I don't know. Why is that offensive? Hell's Kitchen. Why are we not allowed to see it?
But it's adorable.
Yeah.
It's so evocative. And like, we have so many memories of, you know, how it used to look. And now it's, you know, more shishi, of course, as is the entire city, basically. But we don't need to rename it. No, no, no.
It was more dangerous than I remember. You couldn't go past 9th, you couldn't walk further. You couldn't walk west of 9th because it would get sketchy. Then eventually it was 10th, and now you can go all the way to the water and you don't know where that is.
So true. I remember that too, because there are some weird little theaters, like smaller non Broadway theaters that are over there. But you had to kind of plan your ride because there was no Uber. So you had to figure out, like, well, I've got to walk east because it's safer to get to the subway. Yeah, I remember all that. I remember all that. It's funny to think back because the city's so different, but, you know, what can you do?
It was great watching the episode now I understood what everyone meant by, like, the city was an actual star of the show.
Kristen Davis
Yeah.
Kane Peterson
Because having lived there all that time and now watching it, because when I shot it, I was living there, I didn't really appreciate what I'm looking at. But like, every scene, like with. With the braces and when they're just walking, they're eating ice cream in front of a park, and I'm like, oh, I'm looking at all these, like, look at that. That. That is our New York. That was the actual. In my opinion, that was like the heyday of New York City.
I agree, I agree. I mean, in so many different ways. Like, the year 2000, to me, literally was the heyday, because 2001, you know, in. In September, we know what happened, right. And everything changed. So I feel like 2000, 2001 were like the glory. Like, everything was in super bright colors. You know, it just seemed like things were popping and beautiful and fun and active, you know, and kind of like things hadn't been built up yet, but they were beautiful.
Yeah.
And now it's very built up. And I hate to complain about it because I still love it, but I do miss. I do miss the olden. The olden days. Was there any other thing? Like, do you remember, were the hours really crazy? Were you like, oh, this is weird, or.
No, it was just all fun. There was nothing that I was ever complaining about. You know, I didn't care how many takes it took because again, mostly my fault. And not once did she ever give me A scowl? No, don't worry about it. Oh, don't worry about it. I'm sure she was like that with all you guys. But like the barcode, we were there late, you know, that went into the wee hours and man, I had that stupid scooter now. They, they kind of cut it out. But I had to start. We started that scene with me on top of this giant escalator, right?
Oh my God.
That came out the door. And they had it where. Right as the escalator, right as I'm about to get off. I had to pull the scooter out of the bag and. And like, there was a way, there was a way to like undo it coolly with just one fell swoop, like grab the handles and throw it up and it's supposed to snap into place and it wouldn't. I kept getting it wrong and then I would get it right, but then screw something else up.
Kristen Davis
Oh, no.
Kane Peterson
Yeah, because you're so focused on getting the scooter right that then as soon as you get the scooter right and you step on it, you go, well, what am I supposed to say? Ah, you know, so you gotta go up again and back down again and all fun, all fun.
I mean, that sounds challenging. That sounds really challenging. I would not want to have to do that with a scooter. No, but you seemed, whatever they edited in or out, you seemed very adept at your scootering. Because I was surprised by the scooter. I don't really remember scooters back then. Obviously. Now they're, you know, everywhere. Right.
And motorized.
Yeah, exactly. And that's what I mean. You were like so on the forefront. But it's so interesting and it's such a different carry that we see with you. Like kind of a young, you know, there's like a younger vibe, like almost like a high school vibe, which I kind of goes with your character too, because you're still living with your parents, which is so funny and also so now.
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Kane Peterson
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Let me ask you, when you saw that script, like you said, Carrie was like this different. She got to be this different person. Do you feel like you got that too out of that episode because it was so different or what do I
do in that episode? I can't remember.
Oh, you know, you have the schooner and the Rebecca.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. I mean, Charlotte does a lot of funny things like that. Like sometimes they have me tap dancing and like crate crazy things. But I, I feel like the thing that I liked about it was that it was just a enough different that it got your attention, you know what I'm saying? Like, you were like, oh, this is fun. This is, this is. It's still my character. Right? Like it was so far out, but it was different enough. And I remember Alan and I remember him being really fun to be around. And I don't really know, I feel like he. We had a few writers where they then became a hot commodity themselves and got stolen away, you know, basically to do their own show. And I do think that's what happened with Alan Heinberg. And I have to find out because I know he's like a big showrunner now, you know.
Oh, is he really?
Kristen Davis
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Kane Peterson
Wow. We hit it off. I Should call him, see what's going on.
Totally, totally. He's a great guy. I haven't seen him in years, though. I. I was thinking after. After I talked to you because you were my big person, where I was like, I need to talk to that guy. Catching Kane, because he's super interesting and it's fun to. It's fun to talk to the guys because I love to hear people's experience because I didn't get to interact with you. You know, it's fun to hear your. Your take on it all.
What's great about that episode. Like, well, the show itself is. Every year, a publication will write a new article about the show and rank the episodes or rank the boyfriends. And everyone always sends that stuff to me. And, like, the boyfriend, the latest boyfriend rank. I did pretty good. I was above Jon Bon Jovi, so I was like, okay, yeah, I know. But then you see these threads. I stumbled upon this thread that was like. Like, somebody said I was ugly. I'm like, oh, well, you know, I mean, I wasn't the hottest boyfriend she had. I get that. I understand it, but that's what people are. That's how the Internet is. I'm like, if you don't want to see.
Internet is.
If you don't want to see it, don't look.
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Totally, totally, totally.
Kane Peterson
That's fun that you can see it. What happened? Like, so. So acting wise guys, you were the hot commodity and you were flying to la. Were people recognizing you on the street? Were they talking to you? Was it positive?
Yeah, always positive, you know, Got me. Because that was such a huge show and you're right in the throes of it in season three, you know, and so that was. I. Hey, I got into a lot of clubs because of that show.
Oh, so happy to help. So happy to help.
A lot of lines because of that show.
Oh, yeah. Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
Kristen Davis
That's good.
Kane Peterson
You had a pretty good boyfriend where you didn't have to do anything too horribly embarrassing. Do what? I'm saying, like, you weren't the funky spunk boyfriend or the. Do you know what I mean? Like, you had it pretty good, you know?
Yeah, it was pretty normal. The only thing I had to do and they. They cut it out was like. Because I told people, like, well, there's more to that scene in bed that I had with her. But they didn't air it. I guess maybe it didn't look real, I don't know. But no, she was like, we. We rolled on top of each other and I forget what the dialogue was. I don't think there maybe was any. But, like, you know, rolling over after the phone call and stuff, and I'm like, ah, they took it out, but whatever. That's how TV works. Things get edited and something stay in. But. Yeah, no, nothing was really.
Kristen Davis
Yeah, no, it was pretty good.
Kane Peterson
It was really good.
Yeah. In that episode where he had to, like, his pants were down, his butt was showing, he's pretending to masturbate me. I don't know if I would have been able to pull that off.
Oh, I know. It was a lot. It was a lot. He was very brave. He was very, very brave. It did bring out the craziness of the crew that day, though. That was the whole thing.
What happened?
I can't even tell you everything that happened. But, you know, we worked these crazy hours.
Kristen Davis
Right.
Kane Peterson
Also, so, like, no one slept. And then you're doing, like, crazy scenes like that with a Jugs magazine, you know, with my face, like, oh, my God, so embarrassing. So I was, like, kind of anxious. Anxious about it all. And I think Kyle was just trying to, you know, get through it, right? And, like, all the prop guys and the camera crew and everything were in there with them. And then I had to open the door, and they had put all these sex toys and stuff, like, just things to shock me. And they thought it was gonna help me, but it made me so mad. I was like, kyle, why did you let them? And he's like, I don't. I don't know.
Kristen Davis
You know?
Kane Peterson
I mean, everyone's just trying to get. Get through it. You know what I mean? It's uncomfortable stuff.
Yeah. No, I mean, like, I would have needed the set cleared. I'm like, could you get everybody out of here? Because. And then the mirror. I was like. I was looking because he was facing a mirror.
Yes.
I wonder if they messed up. I wonder if they accidentally got a little root in the. In the scene or whatever. But they didn't. They were good about it.
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Kane Peterson
I don't know why he was facing that mirror. When you think about it, like, that's kind of odd.
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, right? He's looking at himself.
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Kane Peterson
Kyle slash. Trey has some issues. I didn't even think about that. I mean, yeah, it was. You know, we were always just right on that line of, like, yes, these things are real, and we want to show them, but also, they need to be funny. And, like, sometimes it would just get, like, crazy. But that's what I love about your part, is that you were this kind of outlier, right, that she stumbles into your world.
Yeah.
And then she just kind of has like, a frolic in your world. And then in the end, she can't make it work because you're living with your mom, which is kind of adorable.
And I threw her under the bus.
Totally. Exactly. She has to pretend that the pot was hers, which is sad, but so cute. It was just incredibly charming.
That's the line that most people. When I would get recognized, that's the line they always say, and I'm taking it with me when I go. I have heard that so many times.
That's a good one. That's a good one. I like that. I like that very much.
Or they would do the thing like this, like they're throwing the chicken wings and you put your arms up and try to deflect the wings. They would do that. Yeah.
So that's so cute. So cute. I'm so glad you had a good experience.
It was phenomenal. Oh, and I met Ferris. I met her husband.
Oh, you met Matthew.
Yeah. Weird way. So I say Faris because that's what I was thinking.
I was like, wait, what?
No, because we get done with the bedroom scene and you can't see because lights are on and stuff. And I'm focused on what I'm doing. And then so I get off the bed and the first person that comes up to me to extend a hand, he says, great scene. I look up and it was him. It was Matthew Broderick. And, like, her husband is the first one to tell me he just watched me roll around in a sack with this. Again, I'm new to all this. This is normal for you guys. I just roll around and pretend, hey, with his wife. And he's telling me, great scene. And in my head, I'm like, oh, my God, that's Ferris.
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that's funny.
Starstruck.
Can I tell you a little funny Matthew story? Matthew does a lot of. And he's great at it. And he did a very serious play once. It was not a musical. And I went to see it on the weekend and, you know, we were in production and I wanted to support Matthew, so I went to see it. And in the middle of a scene of this very serious play, these fans who were in the balcony of the Broadway theater had brought a huge banner that said Ferris on it. And they unfurled it onto. In the middle of this scene.
Kristen Davis
Oh, no.
Kane Peterson
I was like, oh, poor Matthew. Like, that's a pro, you know? And you just have to ignore it and keep going. And you know, those fans love him.
Kristen Davis
Right.
Kane Peterson
But, like, it's not really appropriate to.
No, I mean, he's much more than that. He's Matthew Broderick and now he's doing this and, like, you know, but that's how much people love that character. And I don't know, do you get mad when you're associated so much with one character?
It's hard to know. I think you go through every feeling. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think you go through every feeling over time. And the nice thing that I heard, that I just heard from Sarah, he just did a movie with Alan Ruck, who plays his best friend in Ferris Bueller.
Oh, yeah.
So they've worked together again. And I can't wait to see it.
Yeah.
I mean, sometimes I feel like you circle back, you know what I'm saying? Like, maybe for a while you're like, I don't want to be associated with that anymore.
Kristen Davis
Yeah, it's too much.
Kane Peterson
And then after a while you're like, no, no, that was incredible. And I love this person. I want to work with them again.
I think that's exactly it. Yeah.
Kristen Davis
Right?
Kane Peterson
Yeah. So I love them both. And obviously for me, that was a huge movie, so I totally understand and I'm glad. I mean, it's very rare that Matthew came to the set.
Kristen Davis
That's interesting.
Kane Peterson
Was it?
That's an interesting story.
Well, he's like, who's this? Who's this guy now? Who's this?
I think it might have been. I think it could have been. But that just goes to show that you were fantastic.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for your time. Kane, you gave us so much. I just love to hear from the guys.
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Thank you.
Kane Peterson
Thank you.
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Thank you.
Kane Peterson
Thanks for the invite. This was so fun.
It was my pleasure. Yay.
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Kane Peterson
I was looking forward to it for a long time, so thank you.
I'm so glad. Thank you for joining us.
You're welcome.
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Podcast: Are You A Charlotte?
Host: Kristen Davis
Guest: Kane Peterson
Date: February 20, 2026
Duration: Main content [03:15–45:52]
In this episode, Kristen Davis sits down with special guest Kane Peterson, known for his role as the comic book store owner who briefly dates Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City’s iconic “Hot Child in the City” episode (Season 3). They reminisce about Kane’s unique experience joining the SATC universe, dive into behind-the-scenes stories, discuss the quirks of casting and acting, and reflect on New York City’s evolution. The tone is nostalgic, personal, humorous, and full of warm appreciation for the “Sex and the City” legacy.
"I gave myself some grace. It was a fantastic episode. And not just me, but like the entire episode—every storyline was hilarious." (Kane, [05:00])
"I'm too stupid to be nervous. Too ignorant to be nervous. Thank God." (Kane, [07:42])
Unique Episode Attributes:
Filming Challenges:
"It was supposed to be really hot based on last summer, but it wasn't." (Kristin, [12:11])
"Here was the best direction anybody gave me. It was Sarah, the bedroom scene... right before they yell action. She leans in and goes, 'No tongue.'" (Kane, [19:32])
"I sit down the next day, and she's rattling off all these... She goes, 'I looked at the box score. I wanted to be able to talk about it today.'" (Kane, [23:19])
“We get in the ride at the end of that scene... I remember looking— that wasn't in the script where I go, ‘Here we go.’ And then she laughs. ...I was just in the moment. Right.” (Kane, [26:13])
“That was the heyday of New York City.” (Kane, [28:32])
“...2001, you know what happened. Everything changed. So I feel like 2000, 2001 were like the glory.” (Kristin, [28:54])
“And I’m taking it with me when I go.” ([42:33])
“Her husband is the first one to tell me he just watched me roll around in a sack with... his wife. And he’s telling me, 'Great scene.'” (Kane, [43:07])
On Casting & Chemistry
“You were just so perfectly cast. You’re just so great in it.”
—Kristin ([08:05])
On the SATC Set Dynamic
“There weren’t that many shows filming at the time in New York. ...There was Law and Order… And then us—very different. …Once we really got going...we got to pick and choose who we wanted.”
—Kristin ([09:32])
On Sarah Jessica Parker’s Kindness
“She was so friendly… we realize we have baseball in common...I sit down the next day and she’s rattling off all these...She goes, ‘I looked at the box score. I wanted to be able to talk about it today.’”
—Kane ([23:19])
On Spontaneity in Acting
“I forgot I was acting. We’re just hanging out. …So that, you know, speaks to what you said about...just look and play and bringing out the playfulness in her.”
—Kane ([26:20])
On Life After SATC
“I got into a lot of clubs because of that show.”
—Kane ([39:16])
On Iconic Lines
“That’s the line that most people…always say, ‘And I’m taking it with me when I go.’ I have heard that so many times.”
—Kane ([42:33])
On Famous Spouses
“Her husband is the first one to tell me he just watched me roll around in a sack... with his wife. And he’s telling me, ‘Great scene.’ And in my head, I’m like, oh my God, that’s Ferris.”
—Kane ([43:07])
For listeners—whether you’re a diehard SATC fan or a newcomer—this episode of “Are You A Charlotte?” offers a heartfelt, revealing trip through TV history and reminiscence, with laughs, wisdom, and plenty of charming behind-the-scenes moments.