“There were these enormous crowds, people shouting out our names,” she toldMarie Clairein 2008.
“We’d like totally have a fantasy about how we were The Beatles.
I’ve got the hair.”
Amidst all the messiness and chaotic energy of the pals, Charlotte was the lone Pollyanna.
But there’s so much more to the actor than Ms. York Goldenblatt.
Though Charlotte is a prim and proper old money princess, Davis is nothing of the sort.
Here are 12 facts about Kristin Davis.
“I must have auditioned for Seinfeld five times,” she toldGQ.
“For all different parts.
Every girlfriend that year.
So I remember going into that audition being super cranky.
But I really, really wanted to be on the show.
And I finally got on it!”
“Normally in New York you always run into your exes …
So that’s why I got to go back, I was just so excited.”
Likewise, Kristin Davis was perfectly cast as “Sex and the City’s” perennial optimist Charlotte.
But casting directors had a very different vision of Carrie in mind.
Indeed, Davis was initially asked to audition for the role of the sassy sex columnist.
Consequently, she was overjoyed when series creator Darren Starr approached her to try out for a part.
But she was rather hesitant to take on the now iconic role.
“And I was like, ‘That is adorable, but I can’t play that part.
Like, what’re you thinking?'”
“I can’t pull that off, I’m not that girl,” she toldThe Telegraph.
“I’ve got to play [Charlotte] because I know her.”
“I feel like it has been weaponized,” she said.
“And it’s unfortunate because it really just means being educated about what other people are going through.
Why is that a bad thing?”
A supporter of UNHCR and a Goodwill ambassador, she has been a vocal advocate of refugees.
In addition, she is a passionate environmentalist.
Of particular interest to the star is elephant conservation.
“They’re intelligent.
I can’t count the times I’ve been in Kenya …
But I had felt that people didn’t know about the poaching crisis.
We tried to tell people about it, but they didn’t care.”
As such, she has campaigned against ivory production, having witnessed elephants being tortured for their tusks.
“I have lived in white privilege.
In 2018, she adopted a son, who is also Black.
Subsequently, she emphasized the importance of her children having strong Black role models in their lives.
Subsequently, Kristin Davis has candidly discussed the barrage of hate she received due to her augmented appearance.
“I’ve had to get them dissolved and I’ve been ridiculed relentlessly.
And I have shed tears about it.
It’s very stressful.”
“Like, you’re able to’t not age.
The only way you cannot age is to not be alive,” she quipped.
“It’s so sad.
We have enough problems as it is.
We don’t need to shame each other.”
“We didn’t have racial diversity within that writers’ room,” she told The Times.
But the program has also been criticized for allegedly perpetuating sexist stereotypes.
A particular source of ire was Charlotte’s placid nature.
“Who doesn’t get mad, especially if people scream profanities in her face during sex.
Do you remember that [episode]?
I really hated that.”
Davis, however, didn’t see the funny side to her character being degraded in bed.
When Davis spoke to the press about her alleged relationship with Lewis, the actor was furious.
“I am not going out with Kristin and never have done,” he insisted, perContact Music.
“I can’t believe that she would talk about our relationship when there isn’t one.”
Despite this, a profile of Lewis inThe Scotsmanrefers to Davis as one of his exes.
In 2012, she began dating “The West Wing” creator and Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin.
At the time, sources toldE!
Newsthat Davis and Sorkin, both being intellectuals, immediately gravitated towards one another.
The couple called it quits soon after, with Davis reportedly focusing on raising her daughter.
These days, she is going her own way and she likes it just like that.
From a young age, she struggled with alcoholism.
“I really didn’t think I would pass 30.
… Maybe it’s because I was drinking so much as a youth,” she explained.
At 22, she decided to seek help, acknowledging that she didn’t want an early death.
She has been sober ever since.
Accordingly, she encouraged others suffering from addiction to open up about their experiences rather than feel shame.
If you or anyone you know needs help with addiction issues, help is available.
Visit theSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration websiteor contact SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
“It’s actually [a] really great schedule for a mom,” she toldPeople.
“I’m able to be with her and have a job, which is rare and wonderful.”
“It’s great, because I grew up doing theater and playing big characters,” she explained.
As such, “And Just Like That…” is undoubtedly an anomaly for our TV screens.
In her interview with The Times, she revealed that she’s seldom offered roles of substance these days.
“I find that the most boring and offensive,” she declared of such roles.
No, no, nooooo.”
“But it’s hard.
And I know it’s hard for everyone.”
In time, she noticed that her thick locks were growing increasingly thin.
“It was very fine, like it had gone away,” she explained.
“There just was hardly any hair there.
Thereafter, she became the brand’s global ambassador.
Studies have shown that stress is a major cause of thinning hair among adult women.
“Give up the stress!”
she exclaimed when asked what advice she would give to her younger self.
“The stress is all simply wasted energy.
The collection saw her collaborating with Belk, a retailer close to her heart due to her Southern background.
“In the South, there is a feminine quality that often gets lost in high fashion.
As such, she has confessed that she gets rather anxious when folks spot her in public.
“They’re like, ‘Oh no, what is she wearing?'”
Additionally, in stark contrast to Charlotte, she’s not a fan of wearing high heels.
“I do feel guilt about the heels,” she admitted.
But we definitely weren’t.”
