I use my small eye to spy on something unexpected in Kristin Davis’ living room. It is a love seat made of white. That white love seat, that is.
kristin davis nude Season six’s “A Woman’s Right to Shoes” features a once-pristine piece of furniture that Charlotte York (played by Davis) finds her husband Harry Goldenblatt (played by Evan Handler) comfortably lounging on while stark-naked. Fans of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Sex and the City franchise would have recognized it right away. It most likely would have been titled “The One With All of the Tea Bags” if it had been a Friends episode. only to make sure you understand what I’m writing.
Now, twenty years later, the couch (which has obviously been cleaned) is here, looking picture-perfect in Davis’ Los Angeles house, surrounded by more white furniture, tile flooring, and wood-paneled floor to ceiling doors. It appears as though nothing more than a bare ass touched it. But what on earth is it doing here, please?
Although the question is excellent, the response is much better. From a contractual standpoint, Davis could have whatever from the Sex and the City set she desired, even clothes. Our contracts stated that we were free to retain everything we desired from the set. We were quite wise to take that action,” she smiles. Prior to you being envious (which you will still do, but at least now it could be a little less bad), she clarifies, saying, “Okay, okay, so not anything from the set necessarily, though I did take furniture, as did Sarah [Jessica Parker].” It wasn’t wanted back by [the set designers] for whatever reason! What’s wrong with you guys, I thought to myself? I’ll accept it! Of course, I wouldn’t put it all there, so I won’t. That would be strange.
However, isn’t it always a little strange to have a couch in your living room that your co-star exposed his cheeks on?
Even while the remake mostly sticks to the same premise as its original version, its main focus is on actual talk and the contemporary problems that the City girls—who are now in their fifties—face. After all, 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the first series. It was time to move the show beyond its current investigation of friendship and sex. Furthermore, Davis is well-suited to highlight Charlotte’s development as a person at the age of 58.
The second season of the show will premiere on Max on June 22. Charlotte will be living on the Upper East Side and acting as the ideal wife and mother. Her twist: Rose, her youngest daughter, is gender-fluid, calls herself “Rock,” and defies the predetermined expectations of her mother. She begins by refusing to participate in her bat mitzvah, an occasion that marks her as a woman.
“Charlotte’s main concern is raising her unique children to the best of her abilities, which presents a learning curve for her as the meticulous Charlotte that we all know and adore. Perfectionism is not necessarily the ideal mindset to have when you’re a parent, according to Davis.
Finding myself anew is a greater problem, she claims, something she has personally grappled with. “Charlotte has given her all for years as Harry’s wife and mother of the children, as well as a wonderful friend, and she does everything flawlessly. However, I believe that most mothers—at least the ones I know—do reach a certain point where they feel as though they must reconnect with themselves. What is it that I desire? How am I acting? it’s a portion of what Charlotte will be presenting to us, and I can definitely relate to it.
When Parker, director Michael Patrick King, and writer came calling during the pandemic, Davis was all in. “I didn’t know they were interested in discussing doing a program. But then I thought, Glory be to God, let’s get this done! She remembers, “This is the best thing that could have ever happened.”
And she was prepared to go above and above to make it happen. As a result, she had to shoot in New York City for seven months straight, travel home every weekend to be with her kids, Wilson, age five, and spend all of her time on set with the two most important women in her career, curled up on the dressing room floor with takeout from Nobu or somewhere equally amazing (Parker and Nixon, who are both foodies and native New Yorkers, took turns placing the orders), and talk into the night, as best friends do no matter what.
“Working with friends who have been my friends for 25 years is such a luxury, but seven months is a long time to shoot and a long time to be trying to go back and forth every weekend to see my kids,” Davis acknowledges. My kid had recently begun middle school, so I didn’t want to pull them out of class. My intention was not to return every weekend, but I was able to get them started in school, so at least I felt like they had a schedule. My 5-year-old was not having it when I tried to bring them outside or take occasional weekends off. He was furious. I had to return every weekend as a result of my overwhelming guilt. However, this is the result of attempting to strike a work-life balance.
The demanding shooting schedule was peppered with unwelcome photographers, chilly days spent in summer attire throughout the winter, and days on set during the New York City winter so bitterly cold that Davis’ lips would always look blue. The difficult challenge of creating the foundation to keep viewers interested in the show came next.
There was the sudden death of Mr. Big (played by Chris Noth), the mysterious absence of Samantha (Kim Cattrall), and the actual death of Willie Garson, who portrayed Stanford Blatch on SATC. In addition, the writers had to construct a relatable universe and ten years of backstory for a show that has always leaned toward the unbelievable. (Sorry, the closet! The flat! The sum of Carrie Bradshaw’s writer’s salary, clothes, and apartment. Just saying.)
However, kristin davis, like Charlotte, has a significantly more optimistic outlook for the second season than she had for the first. “The good news is that we handled the heavy lifting last year,” she states. “We’ve given Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda new circumstances and a new universe. I understand that people feel strongly about certain circumstances, but this is just the way life is, right? Not everything goes as planned, and you have to learn how to deal with it. However, I would characterize our current situation going into the second season as follows: we don’t need to perform as much heavy lifting. There are entire plots that I have no involvement in; it’s similar to how the show used to work, with the four of us having separate narratives that eventually converged. In contrast, the three of us spent a lot of time together last year. I’m eager to see how everything turns out.
Although Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury), Lisa Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker), and Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez, who is portraying — spoiler alert — a love interest for Miranda) are among the new characters introduced in this Sex and the City reboot, can anyone really take Samantha Jones’ place? I’m going to give you another spoiler alert, although it doesn’t seem like anyone will have to. The announcement that Cattrall would return to reprise her part, albeit for a single scene, sent the internet into a frenzy in late May.
However, kristin davis, like Charlotte, has a significantly more optimistic outlook for the second season than she had for the first. We carried out the bulk of the work last year,” Davis says. Although she is forbidden from discussing the upcoming season (“I can’t say anything about the season that is going to be a definitive, because I will be killed”), she does offer her opinion on the much-discussed conflict between Parker and Cattrall that resulted in And Just Like That turning into a triple act rather than a quadruple one. The problem with all of that is that, in my opinion, it has been thoroughly examined and resolved for years now, to the point where I’m not sure I have anything new to contribute. But let me clarify: there is a distinction between the person and the character. Fans of the show, in my opinion, have affections for each other and don’t want to let anyone down, but all we can do is face life’s facts and make them as realistic as possible. Furthermore, I believe it is understandable that people occasionally leave your life or drift slightly apart. Friendships change throughout time, but that doesn’t mean they won’t return. People used to ask me, “Who has that much time to have coffee or food with their friends?” when the show first started. In my own life, I believe there have been certain people I would chat to on a daily basis: girlfriends I used to go out for coffee with when I was single, and other folks from a different era when I was a young mother. Since our children attended the same play group, I had daily interactions with other young mothers. Because I am aware that many still feel this way [about Samantha’s absence], I do think it is relatable. I completely get it, but our options were limited. We have also made some amazing new friends.
All of it is a part of the circle of life, as these attractive City girls grow older and perhaps wiser, coping with things like menopause, divorce, and death. Though it’s not flawless, it’s genuine. This is what kristin davis believes would appeal to the people that tune in, wanting to see the women reverting to their former sex-ploits. Sadly, not everyone can relate to this at this point in their lives.
We thought, ‘That’s pretty challenging,’ when we remembered that first season. We were all on the phone, sending emails, or texting as soon as we made the decision to do it. “Let’s do this,” or “What about this?” was what we were all saying. It just felt thrilling. I didn’t give much thought to the challenges or obstacles we had to overcome in order to sort of create the newness around us. Naturally, the city and we remain the same, but we did wish to update and modernize the program, just as we did in the past. We are accustomed to this. People tend to forget that we have already done this, but we remember, and we can repeat the action.
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And in that instant… I’m thinking about Kristin Davis’s outfit once more. To be truthful, I never really stopped after she informed me she could keep whatever she wanted. But when she sighs and says, “Can I tell you, the major stress I have right now is where to put it all?,” my green-eyed monster is fully engaged again. I’m so out of space now that the second season is here that my bedroom is actually covered with boxes. Argh! She hesitates. “I apologize,” she apologetically says. “I want to take care of it because it’s beautiful stuff, even though it sounds like a very, very bad thing to complain about.”
I understand; it’s much more than simply “stuff” to Davis. Her past is represented by these garments. They chronicle every happy point and terrible point in their 25-year relationship that she and Charlotte have experienced. Let’s pause for a moment to consider the seriousness of those remarks and those years. 25 years. 25 years. Her development as an actor, a woman, and a person can be seen in every outfit choice she makes, including shoes, handbags, and dresses.
“Oh, that show is all about the fashion and the shoes,” people used to say. Actually, though, it was more about female friendships and sexuality than it was about following preconceived notions about what a woman’s life should entail. It was also about forging your own path and living your truth. “The shoes and the clothes were just the cherry on top,” she exclaims.
Even after twenty years have gone and the ladies are no longer in their thirties, the topic of female friendships and sexuality remains relevant, but it also goes beyond that. It also discusses how routes can diverge, the impossibility of perfection, and how life never exactly turns out the way you expect.
Consider Davis’s life as the ideal illustration. She was on the verge of giving up on her ambition to become an actress, but destiny had other plans for her, and she was bestowed with the character of Charlotte, who has brought her more material and spiritual wealth than she could have ever imagined.
Davis now adds, “I don’t even want to imagine my life without her.” She acknowledges that she was on the verge of giving up acting before being chosen for the part. “There was a time when I even prayed to the universe to show me that I was making the right decision in choosing to become an actor.”
Davis travels back in time to when she was 29 years old and had just received her yoga teaching certification. “I received my certification at the first YogaWorks in Santa Monica before it was present on every corner in every American city,” she says. As the mother of my goddaughter, my girlfriend and I were both unemployed actresses who planned to teach together as she had received hers at the same time. Although our brief lesson in a karate studio during the day was enjoyable, it wasn’t long enough. I distinctly recall informing my mother that I needed something more satisfying and that I had a deadline. After having a eureka moment, I decided to become a full-time yoga instructor if I didn’t receive a substantial offer by the deadline. I then acquired Melrose Place.
With the exception of an eighteen-episode arc on General Hospital, Davis had primarily performed one-off roles on television shows like ER and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, before taking on the role of Brooke Armstrong on Darren Star’s primetime soap opera. However, Melrose was a clear indication that Davis was headed in the right direction.
She admits today that “it seemed pretty clear,” but she also maintains that she really had no idea how successful SATC would end up being. “I think I would have just been in that big pool of people who are just struggling to get work, which is hard and not necessarily even based on talent,” Davis states, if she had not discovered Sex and the City. Only she understood it. She does not, however, credit one factor for landing the part or for her subsequent success: “People ask me all the time what the secret to success is, but I don’t think there is a secret.” If anything, it’s about putting forth your best effort, timing your movements perfectly, and being prepared for when the moment comes. Because it involves both work and timing, you cannot ignore either one. You won’t be prepared to take that position if you’re not ready when that time comes. It’s difficult and frightening to take that position, even if you’re prepared.
Although Davis was prepared, she still bears the wounds from the criticism that came with being in the spotlight and continues to come, at least in part. “I began working seriously at the age of thirty when I was hired for a job on Melrose Place. I was surrounded by stick-thin, blonde women with blue eyes and blond hair, and I immediately thought, ‘What am I doing here?'” It was demanding,” she remembers.
And right now? Within reason, she still gives a damn about what people say about her, but at nearly sixty, strangers’ opinions mean a whole lot less.
The cruelty she encountered during her early days as Charlotte was far worse than any of the horrible things that happened to her self-esteem throughout the Melrose days. The way the press portrayed her physically back then was cruel and unjust.
“The only bad thing about playing Charlotte, honestly, is all of the body shaming I’ve been subjected to for the past 25 years, pretty much until recently,” she admits. I look at her in shock; even over Zoom, she’s radiant and gorgeous, with her chocolate locks in undulating waves and little makeup on. Her enormous, gold-rimmed grandmother glasses only help to accentuate her stunning features. Nevertheless, our perceptions of ourselves are a product of our environment and period of time. For example, at one point in time, the tabloids called Kristin “pear-shaped” and Sarah Jessica “skinny.”
“I would say, ‘But they’re not!’ when I saw those mags write things like ‘Kristin’s hips are wider than her shoulders.’ After that, I’m thinking, Who cares? How come they might be? However, it’s still going on.
Then she brings up one of the most painful experiences for her personally. Davis recalls feeling a hankering for her cheat food—M&Ms—one evening when she was heading home from her apartment in Manhattan. Davis recollects that the woman cashier told her, “Oh, I can’t sell you those,” when she sought to purchase her snacks. “And I asked, ‘What are you saying?'” “You can’t eat those,” she says, gesturing to my hips. I was really depressed. The bodega lady won’t sell me M&Ms, I thought to myself. How absurd is that? I sobbed the entire way home. I continued to walk while crying.
I voice my displeasure on her behalf, but after all these time, she’s become realistic about it. It’s kind of like, Okay, you don’t know any better, if it’s in the mags every week. I don’t mean to justify her. This is what’s being provided to you. But at the moment, that was the ocean we were swimming in. I don’t believe Cynthia Nixon would agree with me since she has a more powerful, harder attitude on everything, but hearing stuff like that and then being told that “everyone should love their bodies” really gets to me. Yes, you’re terrific, you’re good, but it’s incredibly hard to just say that after decades of this being thrown at you. I adore my physical appearance. Obviously, I’m working on it, and thank God, I’m starting to care less. However, part of the reason I don’t care as much is that, in a sense, expectations decrease as one ages. I mean, who wouldn’t want to analyze your face? In that case, your body isn’t the main draw. I’m not immune to anything, for sure. Though you make an effort not to look at it, it is everywhere. I have shed a tear or two. Over the years, I have undoubtedly experienced “disordered eating,” but I’m well today. I’ve been improving myself lately. And one thing you discover after doing it for a while is, “Here I am!” That’s me! That does indeed take time. It’s true that I’m not perfect, even though here I am. That shouldn’t need to be said, but I’m glad I did.
Realizing that perfection doesn’t exist and she doesn’t need it is a tremendous discovery that can come at any age. It feels nice that she has finally stopped caring. She has been able to make all of the proper decisions because of that freedom. She would want more time to read a book or take a bubble bath, but she is currently too busy to really focus on herself. Nevertheless, she still finds time to work with her friends, take her daughter to riding lessons on the weekends, and practice yoga when she can. And it was all a result of her choosing the correct course.
“I’m just extremely fortunate that I never had to worry about trying to figure out who I was. I always knew what I wanted to do. That was not really my phase. I already had a very focused idea of what I intended to do. That was the ceiling I set for myself, regional theater and possibly Broadway if I was lucky, not what I actually ended up doing, which is regional theater.
Casting her as Charlotte was, of course, the greatest luck of all. She has never regretted doing the job because she is aware of how her life may have turned out had she not been chosen for it. Indeed, there were moments when I thought, “Well, I guess I’m not going to be portrayed as a cop or anything like that. But then, you know what I mean? I was like, Oh, whatever. Say, how are you going to manage that? It is not possible. I also adore Charlotte. Of course, it would be different if I didn’t like Charlotte.
It’s impossible not to adore the role for which she is responsible for her two Screen Actors Guild Awards, her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actress, and her visibility, which has led to innumerable roles in both theater and film, including Gore Vidal’s Tony Award-nominated play The Best Man. Her position has allowed her to make a difference; she is a goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), and a patron of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
Furthermore, it’s difficult to despise someone who is a part of you, because Charlotte has evolved into Davis over time—not the other way around. Her positivity, her concern for friends and family, and her innate decency are all things Davis adores. But which historical events in Charlotte’s past are her favorites? Those, though, are far more recent. She remembers the first one from a table read for And Just Like That’s second season. Because of her NDA, she is unable to discuss the plot, but she will add that it is so hilarious that she and her co-stars laughed so hard that they really fell out of their chairs as they read the sequence. “I couldn’t gather myself, or at least we couldn’t. Speaking such words aloud was really difficult, particularly in that group environment. I have no idea what has hit me. Reading something so embarrassing on your own and then reading it aloud as your 50-something-year-old self—reading these things that we might have also read when we were 35—are two very different things. I had read the script previously, so I knew this was going to happen. It’s basically an embarrassing subject mixed with a mind-bending, odd time-travel scenario. If you’re as curious as I am about what this moment meant, she assures us that we will know exactly what it means when we witness it this season. Humph.)
The 1998 release of the first Sex and the City movie is her second most treasured memory. She recalls, “I went out to buy some milk or something with the person I was dating at the time, and I had a hat on. There was a lot of anxiety about whether people would go to see it, whether we would disappoint the studio, and all of that pressure.” It was evening; the sky was gloomy. We’re strolling along the street when I hear laughing out of nowhere. These eight women, dressed elegantly in gowns and high heels, are seen entering the Upper West Side movie theater. It dawned on me then that they were going to view our film. Being a part of something that resonated and feeling that support was very great.
As is customary when talking about a significant milestone, Davis offers her closing reflections on this incredible 25-year adventure. The thing that interests me the most, in my opinion, is that initially, people didn’t think much of us. Say, what’s this sex show about? The most absurd aspect, though, is that we still need to establish our worth. Sometimes people forget that we existed before Bridesmaids. Having female leads in their 20s on cinema was practically unheard of. At the time, it was widely believed that no one would watch it or attend to see movies starring exclusively women. Naturally, all of our amazing fans showed up at that point; it turned out to be far larger than anyone had anticipated. It was so successful that nobody could believe it. [The second picture experienced the same situation.] Then, when the epidemic struck, we thought, “Oh, maybe it’s over.” That’s alright with us. We can move on from it. However, we thought, “This is so ridiculous.” Given our amazing personality and devoted fan following, why shouldn’t our lives continue to be fascinating as we age? Why not just accept that as the world’s opinion and say, “Okay, that’s fine.” I’ll just go about my business as usual and act like it’s incredibly dull. Why not?
