Kristin Davis didn’t love every drama the Sex and The City writers threw at her character Charlotte York.
The actress, 60, admitted on the Thursday, March 13 episode of her podcast “Are You a Charlotte?” that there was one plot she didn’t want to film.
Davis recalled that there was a storyline in season 6 of the HBO series that involved Charlotte and her second husband Harry, played by Evan Handler, suffering a bout of food poisoning. The characters were supposed to be enjoying a fancy, romantic night eating an array of French cheeses before things took a turn for the worse and the characters ended up on the bathroom floor after getting sick.
“I just hated that storyline so much,” Davis confessed on the podcast, admitting she tried to convince the powers that be to cut the scene completely. “I went to Elisa Zuritsky and Julia Rottenberg [the writers of the episode] and said, ‘Please, do we have to do this? Why?’”
However, Davis had no luck convincing them to cut the scene because the writers felt it was an amusing addition to the show.
“They were like, ‘It’s so funny,’” Davis recalled. “I think it was based on a story where someone went to France and had a similar experience with their decadent cheeses, which we’re not used to here.”
The actress added, “I didn’t like that. I didn’t want to lay on the floor of the bathroom with Evan in stained T-shirts. Ick.”
Since her turn as Charlotte in the original HBO series, which ran from 1998 to 2004, Davis reprised her role for the 2021 reboot, And Just Like That…
Kristin Davis. (Photo by Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for Highbrow Hippie Haircare & Wellness)
Last week, she shared more behind-the-scenes secrets on her podcast about the SATC/AJLT universe — including one that involved the actor who played her first husband, Trey MacDougal.
In the March 7 episode of her podcast, Davis revealed Kyle MacLachlan turned down the opportunity to return as his character Trey.
“[Executive producer] Michael Patrick [King] has this thing where he doesn’t like us to talk about ideas for stories that didn’t happen,” Davis explained. “But I’m just gonna tell you guys that there was an idea that Trey/Kyle would come on And Just Like That, and then it didn’t happen. And so Kyle and I had to talk about it, because I was kinda mad at him. I said, ‘Why didn’t you come on? We wanted you to come on.’”
Davis went on to share MacLachlan’s reasoning behind not coming back, explaining, “He said, ‘I just wanted it to be amazing,’ meaning that it had a kind of almost a sad note. I think I’m not saying too much. I hope Michael’s not gonna be mad at me. There was a bit of a sad note, but it had this incredible lead up to me seeing Trey again.”
Days after Davis’ comments, MacLachlan told People that he hadn’t completely ruled out reprising his role as Trey but he’d only say yes if the storyline was good enough.
“I think it would be really fun to return, yeah, I do,” MacLachlan, 66, told the outlet on Monday, March 10. “They had reached out. I just felt that the idea that they had — I wanted a little bit more to it. I wanted the relationship that we had to be a little deeper.”
He added, “Maybe they’ll come back with another idea. I’d be game.”
