Kristin Davis’ role as Charlotte York on Sex and the City cemented her as a Hollywood star — but it wasn’t always easy for her to connect with the character.“We have very different lifestyles.
I’m not married. I have never been married,” Davis, 58, said during the Monday, July 10, episode of the “Best Friend Energy” podcast. “It’s not my thing.
I was never focused on it. It was never a goal, let’s say.”Although Davis feels that the “real essence” of her personality is “the same” as Charlotte, she confessed that it “took some acting” to seamlessly portray a married woman and hopeless romantic on screen. (Single mom Davis adopted her daughter, Gemma, and son, Wilson, in 2011 and 2018, respectively.)“I would stress out on those days,” Davis — who played Charlotte on SATC from 1998 to 2004 before reprising the role for And Just Like That in 2021 — recalled. “I would have a paragraph on a page of [the script with] the rules and the marriage [lingo].
And oh, my God, I would just be like, ‘How am I going to do this and make it real and believable?'”The actress noted that her upbringing in the South helped her connect with Charlotte’s desire to be a wife above all else.
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