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Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I

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want to know, are you a Charlotte?

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Alrighty, We're gonna just answer some

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questions that came from fans, which

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is always fun. Thank you guys for sending me questions,

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and let's do it some more. Okay, all

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right, here's the first one. If Charlotte

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was to take her younger self out

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to coffee, what would you say to

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her younger self? Apparently

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this is a trend on social media, which is kind

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of funny.

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I like the trend.

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If I were to take younger

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Charlotte out to coffee, I would say,

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relax, it's all gonna

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work out. It's going to be a bumpy

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road, but you're tougher than you think.

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That's what I would say to her, and probably what

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I would say to my own self as well, and probably

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what I probably everyone would say that

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to their own younger selves. I don't know, but

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I think that I think that's definitely what I would

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say to younger younger Charlotte, because she's obviously

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so worried about her goals and so

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focused on her that almost

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to the point where she can't see what's

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really real in front of her, so I would say,

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focus less on your goals.

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It's all gonna work out. I think that's what I would

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say.

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Okay, my favorite

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outfit for Charlotte and then for the other

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ladies.

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Okay.

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Very hard to pick favorites. People ask

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me this very often. Everyone knows

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I love the lipstick skirt. One

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time I did have this Oscar de la

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Renta dress. It was black lace. I

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believe I wear it in the first movie,

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to Carrie's engagement

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party or like night before the wedding party.

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That's what it's not engagement party, I don't think, is it.

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I don't know.

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I wear it.

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It's got lace, has got a deep v neck.

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I wish I had that dress.

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It's one of the few things I don't have. Oh

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my god, we gave it back to Oscar dela Reenta.

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It was before Oscar himself passed

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away. He was such a lovely man, and I

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just wish I had that dress because it was one of

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my all time favorites. Though I've

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loved every Oscar de la Renta dress I've ever worn.

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In terms of the other Ladies favorites,

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ooh, it's tough, but you know, weirdly,

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yeah, I'm rewatching the first season, as you guys

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know, and the other day, Sir

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Jessica was wearing this.

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Butter yellow dress.

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It's definitely the color of yellow

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that is very on trend right now, and

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it looks almost like a nurse's

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uniform. It's kind of like a cotton

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dress. She just has a belt with it.

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Her hair is in this very.

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Cool kind of pulled back on the sides

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curly. It's her natural curls. I

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love this outfit so much. I don't remember this outfit.

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It's very simple for her, but I just

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love it. I mean, she looks good and everything. As

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you guys know, she can make a paper bag

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look good obviously. I

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mean, there's so many outfits that she wears

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that I love. But sometimes when i'm rewatching,

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I love the really basic, everyday

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thing she wears because she just has

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a way of making them all look amazing and

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styling them just so.

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And sometimes she messes with her

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clothes.

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On camera, like she'll fix her collar or

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she'll kind of pull on her shirt.

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And it's super interesting.

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It's not something that I was ever aware of then, but it's

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kind of unusual because as actors

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were kind of somewhat.

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Possibly the costume people don't want

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us to do that, but it is something that people

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every day do. But it's just like tucking

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your hair behind your ears, and every day people

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always tuck their hair behind their ears if you have long hair,

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but they don't really want you to do this when you're acting

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because then in continuity you have to make sure

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that you do it at the exact same time in

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the scene that you did it before, because you're going to film

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it from a different angle and if your hair doesn't

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match, it's going to mean that it's not editable,

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right, you can't cut it together. So the continuity

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people get very stressed out when you tuck your hair bind

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your ears, but in reality, this is something

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everybody does. So it's one of those really

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awkward things as an actor where you

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want to do it because this is normal life. You're trying

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to be as normal as you can be, but then it causes

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production problems. So I love her

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in her everyday clothes, and I love when she messes with

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her clothes other outfits

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for them. Well, listen when

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Kim wears the lingerie

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and the fur coat when she comes to my apartment,

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I'm still in the first season, right, So it's on my

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mind. It's incredible. And

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the funny thing is that I do tend to think of

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the first season as not really being

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kind of fully formed in terms

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of our style yet, because we weren't able

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to borrow clothes because no one knew what the show was

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and this I don't know what that coat

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is. I don't know where they got that coat and

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what lingerie she's wearing,

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but it could not be more incredible

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out there on Fifth Avenue

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or whatever it's supposed to be Central Park West.

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I think it was actually a Fifth Avenue though, But it's

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so great and powerful and

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you know, I don't use this word lightly, but iconic.

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Let's see for Miranda.

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I don't know that we've come across any

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like complete

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favorites yet.

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In Miranda's first season, we're.

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Maybe her suit in the beginning and

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the pilot it's gray and she's.

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Got a rebox on. I'm gonna go with that.

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I mean, you know what.

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I really love.

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I love these crazy overalls that are coming that

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people wear on Halloween. Now she's got

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like overalls and like a buffy

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coat, and I don't know how come she's

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wearing that.

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I don't remember why. I don't know why Pat

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let her wear it. It's really funny. I think she might

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have a baseball cap on.

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I really love those funny, really weird

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Miranda outfits. But I also

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really love her

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bride'smaid's dress for Carrie's

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wedding. It's like that beautiful,

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strong periwinkle blue as a Zach Posen

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dress. If it isn't this so beautifully

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and looks so gorgeous with her hair and

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her skin is just glowing. It's very

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beautiful dress. Those

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come to mind, But you know, ask me tomorrow

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and I'll have you a different set of answers.

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Okay, can I define the

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Charlotte aesthetic?

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Yes, yes, sure, the Charlotte

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aesthetic, which definitely is not happening

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yet in first season so much, I mean

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a little bit, but not a lot. Her

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look is that she likes something

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that's structured and starchy,

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like you know, Crisp Cottons

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an a line skirt as

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time goes on, a tighter skirt. Pat,

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you know, kind of talked me into it as time went on.

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But in the beginning, I like Crisp a line skirt,

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a wide belt, Cinchton

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like if my belt is not Sinchton when I'm

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working, I just don't even feel like I'm Charlotte.

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Basically, she loves white,

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black red. I'm a winter

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so Charlotte likes winter type colors.

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Pat and Mollie have always enjoyed putting

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me in like blues, like soft powder

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blues. I don't really love them on myself, to tell

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you the truth, but they're always trying, so I

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still kind of let Molly do it. Love

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pink obviously, don't even have

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to say that. Charlotte

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also likes a little bit of whimsy in her

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outfit. So like in the original

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show, I used to have all these cute little Peter

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Pan type collar shirts that were mume I

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feel like, and they had little little like

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sequence and things sewn on them.

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Obviously, I love Prada, the Proda lipstick

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skirt.

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Kind of a little bit tongue in cheek, just

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to you know, have some

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kind of sense of humor about her clothes.

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I guess also really

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loves wait

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pearls, which sometimes is a

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problem because also Carrie loves pearls,

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So I have to pick and shoes where I'm gonna wear the pearls,

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But pearls obviously make perfect sense,

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as Charlotte is the you know, Park

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Avenue girl.

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What else, She's very.

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Into her diamonds, goodness

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as time goes on. Wow, We've

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got a really incredible set

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of jewelry from miss Charlotte. Sometimes I'm

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just blown away by her jewels. She

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loves her Cardier watch. She's

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had some incredible jewelry over the years.

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She's definitely a jewelry girl. And I

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was gonna see something else, but it went out of my mind. But

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you know, she loves her Manolo pump. We've

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got every color of those things. I've

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been building my collection for

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many years, me and Charlotte

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also.

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Building the collection of Manolo pumps, Swayed,

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Patton, regular leather, all

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of them.

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But I think I think I was mostly

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just gonna say there's a little bit of whimsy in Charlotte's

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look, which I think people forget when they think about the

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structure, which is also very true. But I

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have a lot of kind of whimsical, funny little

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pieces, like I had this beautiful

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bow necklace that was made of diamonds

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way before bows were popular. It's a

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really good one. I think it was possibly dere

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jewelry I'm not sure, like

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just like like girly things that are just

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a little bit you know, kooky,

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I guess would be a word.

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Okay, next question, Oh,

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this is an odd one.

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If Charlotte were to date any of the other

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lady's men, who would it be? Okay,

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So definitely that would be a big

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no now And one of the only notes

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that I ever remember HBO giving

8:58

to the show, like as a storyline

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from our read through. We would always do

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a read through where they would come or

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have someone there right to listen. There

9:08

was this storyline where I think it

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was Miranda and Carrie

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both like the same guy, or one

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of them dated the guy, and then the other one states to guy,

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but then the other one isn't wonder to da guy.

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I can't remember. They argue about a guy and

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HBO said, absolutely not.

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The women will never be arguing over

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a guy, and that was really

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smart of them, and I'm really glad they did it because

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we've just seen so much of that in film and television

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and it's just kind of ig you know, and

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I don't really feel like it happens

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that much in life, because I think that women know not

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to date people that their other

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friends have dated, you

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know, so that's

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one.

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Okay.

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Do I think I could have played any of the other

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characters?

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Definitely? Know, I think I've covered this

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already.

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They did send it to me for Carrie at one point, and

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I definitely do not ever, ever,

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ever think in my wildest dreams I could to ever

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pull off Miranda or Samantha, and

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not even Carrie, so only.

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Charlotte for me for sure.

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What is something you wish Charlotte would have gotten the

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chance to do but it didn't happen. Okay,

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I do think I've said this publicly, so I'm going to

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say it again. I hope I don't get in trouble with Michael

10:19

Patrick. But when we were

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trying to plan the films, there were many

10:23

times that we were trying to plan a film and then it didn't

10:25

happen. And then eventually, obviously the two

10:28

films that you guys have hopefully seen happen.

10:30

But there was going to be a film in Michael Patrick's

10:33

mind where right

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at the if we had done the film

10:37

immediately after the end of the series

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and Charlotte had adopted Lily

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with Harry, and Michael

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planned that Harry, no Harry

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didn't go. Charlotte was going to take

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Lily to China so

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that she could see where she came from,

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and they were going to have to go into the countryside.

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And Michael had this idea for some reason,

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and that I was going to have to try to get

11:02

an ox across a river.

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In the mud.

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I don't know why he had this idea, but he did, and I

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was like, yeah, let's do it. And then

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I would have to take Charlotte would have to take a train

11:14

back to Beijing or whatever

11:16

to get her flight back, and she would feel

11:18

seasick on the train or you know, like

11:20

motion sickness, and it would turn out

11:22

that she was pregnant, and that's how she would find

11:25

out that she was pregnant with Rose, who then

11:27

eventually changes into Rock.

11:28

That was how the storyline was going to go down. Now.

11:31

I don't know if he ever asked Newline

11:33

if we could go film in China.

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I have no idea how far he got with the storyline,

11:38

but I did think it was really, really fun

11:41

and I so desperately wanted to

11:43

do it, and I was sad that we didn't get to do it, but

11:46

we got to do other very cool storylines

11:48

in our movies.

11:49

So it all worked out.

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But in my mind it's almost

11:52

like I did get to do it, or like Charlotte did

11:54

get to do it, because I have a very very vivid image

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of what he described to me. Okay,

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this is a weird question. I'm not gonna be able to answer

12:11

it, but let's talk about it. When and

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where were you when you got

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the news that the first movie was

12:18

being made? Okay, I have no idea. But

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the thing about these things is that it's

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never just one call. You

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know. There's always such a process

12:29

that involves so many people, all

12:31

of our agents, HBO, Slash,

12:34

new Line, Michael Patrick, Sir Jessica,

12:37

all of the people involved. You

12:39

know, It's it's

12:41

never just one phone call. It's more

12:44

like I think,

12:47

you know, in.

12:49

Some ways, were we on

12:51

hold.

12:51

I think we were on hold technically

12:54

speaking for a while to

12:56

do the film, but it was unclear

12:59

who was going to produce the film. I don't think we

13:01

had new Line shored

13:04

up as like how like which part

13:06

of Warner Brothers would make this film.

13:08

It wasn't really something that was commonly done

13:11

to take a television show and make it

13:13

into a film. I can't even think right

13:15

now, the other ones they have done it, it's not that common.

13:17

It's kind of a big deal. But we were obviously

13:20

under the Warner Brothers. Bann Er HBO was

13:22

owned by Warner Brothers, and you

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know Time Warner owned Warner

13:27

Brothers at the time. Now we have a different name.

13:29

Discovery.

13:31

Max. I could keep

13:34

going with the different names, but it's

13:36

never just one call is really what I want to

13:38

say? And so I have absolutely no idea,

13:40

and I think it was probably a series of calls,

13:43

and I think I was probably bothering

13:45

Michael Patrick. Oh. Also, we had script

13:47

approval, so I think at a certain

13:50

point we would ask Michael Patrick

13:52

like, how's the script coming?

13:53

How's the script coming?

13:54

You know? And then I would ask my manager like, who

13:56

do you think is going to make this film? And if he'll say,

13:58

oh, I talked to Toby at Newline and he's

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they're going to make it, I say, great, we love Toby,

14:02

And you know, like that, it would go on for months,

14:04

right Like the development of a

14:07

project, any project takes forever,

14:09

much less a project that's jumping

14:11

from the screens of your

14:14

actual television in your house to

14:16

the movie theaters in the actual movie theaters,

14:19

which is how it was in two thousand and eight when the film

14:21

came out. So it was a whole

14:23

long process, and I don't remember when

14:26

I got the call that was actually greenlit, but

14:28

I do remember just being

14:30

so excited when Michael was

14:33

feeling really positive, had written the script,

14:35

had turned the script in New Land, liked

14:37

it, we got to read it.

14:39

We all liked it.

14:40

You know.

14:40

That was thrilling, But I don't think, I

14:43

don't know.

14:43

If I really believed it until

14:46

we got back to New York and got all

14:48

back together and we were together on the street,

14:50

you know, and then it felt real and then

14:52

it was, I mean, beyond exciting, and we had

14:54

this huge crowd of people who'd

14:56

come to watch, and it was so much fun, you

14:59

know, to be there and to get to do it and to

15:01

get to keep going. And of course we're still

15:03

going now within just like that, and we never thought that would

15:05

happen. So it's just one of those times where

15:07

you have this wish, this dream that's going

15:09

to happen, and you've talked to everyone about

15:11

it and everyone seems to share the dream, and you're

15:13

just hoping it'll come together, and then when

15:15

it does, it's a miracle. Every single time it's a

15:17

miracle. So thank you guys for

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sending in questions and please keep

15:22

them coming. We'll put up a link

15:24

and ask for questions and please send

15:26

them in. I love to hear what you guys are

15:28

interested in, and we'll try

15:30

to do another question and answer soon.

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Thanks for listening. Fine