October 24, 2025 • 16 mins
We interrupt this program: Have you ever wondered how all of those photographs of the Sex and the City cast got out into the universe? How the private lives of actors find their way into the magazines, your phones, and computers.
Adam Scott joins Kristin for a bonus episode to take us behind the scenes of when stars ARE NOT just like us. They let you in on the secrets of celebrity, the good and the bad.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
you a Charlotte? Hey, everybody, welcome back to Are You
a Charlotte? We have a special little episode with Adam
Scott because we just love him so much and we
couldn't stop talking to him. So here's a little extra
more time with the lovely Adam Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That was interesting that you said you and your daughter
don't watch that kind of thing like awards shows? Are
you just like because I at a certain point I
stopped reading entertainment press altogether. I think that's why, like
five years ago, because I was like, this never makes
me feel good, right, nor is it like super interesting?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
True? So what am I doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And I kind of just phased it out and so
but it was for my own like mental health definitely,
like eight years ago. So yeah, and now I'm not
as kind of strict about her or whatever. But I
think it's good to if you're in entertainment, sometimes it's
(01:10):
good to pull back. So yeah, what's behind that?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I mean? For me, I think a couple things like
when I had watched a lot of craziness go on,
like when Sarah Jessca got pregnant, they meaning the paparazzi
and or at that time there was no limits on
what the magazines were buying and printing, right, Yeah, so
they tortured her.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I mean it was so insane.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Followed her around, like, followed her, chased her, almost ran
her off the road like insanity. Like when they brought James,
their first child home, I went to see him and
they were in their brownstone in the village. Everyone knew
where she lived. We had this one particular crazy paparazzi
who I don't want to say his name, but you
probably know who would They would sometimes have a battle
(01:54):
between the two of them, because the paparazzi would stay
with us for the entire day, right like eighteen hours
or whatever, hang out, yeah, just eat our craft services,
and you know, you'd have to say like could you
please get on the shop, you know, like that, And
after a while sometimes we'd get tired, you know, and
if Sarah was tired or we were trying to learn
our lines. The other thing is that like we would
be pricing our lines or whatever, and if we frowned,
they'd put a picture and be like, Kristin and Sarah
(02:16):
are frighting or whatever. Insanity, right, like, you just get
so sick of it. So sometimes Sarah would hold her
sides up right. That would make him mad. So he
would turn to the crowd who was watching and tell
her address what I know. I know, I was messed up.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It was messed up.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So I was always nicer to him because I was scared,
you know what I mean. So when I went to
see James.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Right right, Well, I remember when they had their first kid, James.
I remember seeing on the news them on their front
sight being like here he is.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It was in front of the hospital, was in front
of just like showing them, I know, like a wal
off now exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And they thought that was going to work, and they didn't.
She was exhausted and they had to prance themselves out there,
and they thought, okay, now the price tag will go
from his head, right, No, So I go over there
to see the baby. They're up on the top floor
of their brownstone. When you would look down, they couldn't
drive down the street because it was just like like
(03:17):
maybe a hundred paparazzi. Then they rented an apartment in
the building across from them to photograph through the windows. Wait,
meaning the paparazzi rented. That's how much money they were
making photograph.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh my god. Right, So I watched all that. Any
questions go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Now, is that because of social media has a certain
fervor died down as far as that stuff goes, because
those photos don't have the value they used to.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And also because like Jennifer Garner and Kristen Bell and
Dax went and fought and went to the magazines and said,
you guys have to stop buying them. You know, that
made a huge difference. And that was when that was
after I had adopted my first child. But my whole
visual sense of like what that was like my whole
(04:07):
goal in my career. I don't know if this is smart,
but my goal was to be like moderately famous. You're
trying to say, like not even moderately famous, but like
moderately successful, and with that comes the moderate fame, right, Yeah,
but not to be you know, like I didn't ever
want to be show alone.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That yeah, up close was crazy and that was that
like late nineties early thoughts was sort of the peak
of that insanity.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It certainly was. It certainly was, And Sarah was right
smack in the middle of it, and it was scary.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So it scared me a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So I thought, like on a certain level, I thought
like when I first adopted my child, I kept her,
you know, hidden in the house for quite some time,
Like we would walk her like five in the morning,
you know, you have to stroll the baby, right, be
up at five in the morning again in the dark.
You know. I was really really paranoid because I knew
that once they found out that, then my life be stressful, right,
(05:01):
And it was. I lived at the end of a
cul de sac at the time, and they would just
line the street and we would peak out. We would
peak out because someone leaked it, right, so they have
publicist calls and they're like, they're gonna leak it, so
we'd better tell them and try to get the price down, right.
So you went through all the nonsense exactly. And I
had a nanny, you know, baby nurse with me, and
we'd stocked up on food and we were gonna like
how long can we hold up, you.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And then eventually they figured out that I could see them,
so they moved down the street and I thought they
were gone, so I left. I did not take gema
with me the baby I had to do at this point, right,
So I leave the house and I'm on the phone
with my publicist, you know, and I'm like, I think
I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I think I'm okay. And as I get I lived
up in the hills.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
As I get down the hill, I realized, no, there's
like eight cars trailing me, which is luckily not my
normal life, you know, Thank god.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's so crazy to think of it, because you guys
were such a cultural phenomenon for such a such a
long period of time. Time Like, that's those are the
repercussions of that. That's what happens. It's true, you are
It's true.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's one of the repercussions. Yeah, insane, It was insane.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It always scares me, you know, to be chased, like
it's weird.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't like it. It's weird to have strangers, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Like eventually, eventually, like and I would get out and
I would joke with them. They followed me for the
entire day and I didn't have her with me, and
I was like, guys, I don't have the baby, you
can go, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
What I mean. But they didn't go.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I think they thought I was just going to find
her somewhere, or she was going to show going.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
To the grocery store. I was just outside.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They would just be sitting there, you know, and then
be like, how is it to be a new mom Kristin.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I'd be like, it's great, Please.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Go, you know, I mean, you know, it's it's a
weird thing. And I think I do think there's cynicism
in the world about this, thinking that we all did
want this right, you know, because of reality TV and
all that. But that didn't exists when we were trying
to get work. It was not part of the equation.
But we are obviously very rewarded as well. So I
(07:09):
don't mean to complain.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But it was here.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I think it was also a very specific time time,
and you guys were in a very specific circumstances because
you were on this particular show that struck a particular chord.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Everyone was fascinated with everything you guys were doing.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's true, and I mean, in a way, that's amazing.
And I did have a friend who was on a
different show. I don't feel like I should name him,
but he was on a different show that had that
level and they followed him around and everything, and then
he the show ended, and I remember him saying to
me and not they stopped following him because then he
got married and had kids and they went through that.
But he did say after a few years, he said,
(07:47):
you know, the thing that's important to remember is that
this is a moment in time. It's not going to
go on forever. And that's you don't feel that when
you're being chased, but you do have to go like,
this is a moment in time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's not going to go on.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Forever, and they're not going to hurt me. You know,
you have to like have a whole talk with yourself.
And of course obviously they didn't hurt me and some
of the organizer than others.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And did you did you have a good therapist? And
because I would know, I'm serious, like I would imagine
it was.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I did have a good therapist for a long time,
and then once once I adopted my daughter, then like
you don't have time for your own therapy, But not
to say that I didn't need it, you know what
I mean. Back to your question, I think that was
(08:36):
part of how I decided, Like you know, let's close
out some of that stuff in the house, right, Like,
let's not let it kind of come in as much.
And I think I was much more into I didn't
really read reviews so much, like people would just tell
me about them usually, you know, because you can't really
get away from them. But like I would watch ET
(08:58):
or whatever, you know, stuff like that because Michael Patrick
used to call it our news, like it was our
news show, you know, which is now like all of
social media is entertainment news. But back then I used
to watch stuff like that, And I do think there
was a part of me where I was like, I
don't want my child to know me as that. Yeah,
I just want to have our own bubble as much
(09:20):
as we can, you know. And I tried to, like
for a long time, like sometimes you know, people would
come up to us and say, you know how people
talk to you like they know you, and then they'd
walk away, and I just try to be really if
my daughter and now I have a son too, if
they were there, I would just try to like make
it as brief as possible and keep going and GENER
would just be like, do you know her? They'd be like, no, baby,
(09:41):
I don't know her not and they'd be oh. And
then one time, this was one of those light bulb
moments for her. We were I had an apartment in
New York still the show was done. I was there
promoting like a Christmas movie or something. It was Thanksgiving.
Our apartment was on Central Park West where they would
prepare the flow first yeah, for the parade, which is
(10:02):
really cool. But we were trying to fly to my
mom's on Thanksgiving and the streets were closed, right, so
we had to like kind of run through the crowd
to get to our car, and all the police were
there right with the barricades whatever, and all the police
were like, hey, you know, the New York police are
like so nice, you know, and so they said let's
take every you take a picture and I was like sure, shark,
(10:23):
because it's the police, right. And Jama was just standing
there like what is going on?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Like why the police? What the car? It was really weird.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And then my other really funny moment a similar age.
She's like probably seven to eight, right. We were on
a plane going somewhere and we're in those first class
with a big screen. She's sitting next to me and
there's a lady in front watching one of our things,
and she leans over and she's like, mom, that lady
(10:54):
on the screen looks like you.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I was like, yes, you know, it is it is me.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It is me. She's like, whoa what are you doing?
And I was like, oh my god, what am I doing?
What am I about to do? Like which episode?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Like what's happening? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And I think it was maybe the first movie. And
then I was like, Okay, it's going to be fine.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And then she had met the others, like socially right,
so she was just like, Mommy's on the screen.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
With her friends.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, you know, which was a great way to go.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, that's a that's a that's a really nice way
to go exactly. Mom and her friends just happened to
be very popular.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, they happened to get to work together. How amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And then as time goes on, obviously you're not able
to keep that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I remember one time also, this was funny.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I have my elephant charity, which I mentioned to you earlier,
and one time they asked Emma at school, you know,
everyone's going around seeing what their parents did, and she said,
my mommy works for the elephants.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I was like, yeah, what are great to think your mom?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, I mean now she knows the truth. But you
know what I mean, So I just I just did
just Fanny. She's fourteen now and he's seven, and he
didn't really get what's his name? His name is Wilson. Yes,
very hard to name a boy child. Did you have
a hard time naming your We.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Did, yes, Graham is his name good? It's a good name.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's a good name.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, we were we we had a few contenders, but
that and I forget what. Well, but where I discovered
it came from I think was maybe Graham Chapman from
Monty Python, Graham Parsons, but we were never quite sure
where it came from.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Back they just come, they just come. It took me
weeks to name my child. My mom was really mad
at me.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
They just so much.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
At the beginning, I thought it was after August Wilson.
You know, you have these ideas, right, You're like, ex
after August Wilson. Well, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
He is like a basketball obsessed and he's like, mommy.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
My name is on the basketball and I'm like, oh,
there it is. He has not I wanted to. I
think it's it's so good if you haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It that while I mean it is so good, it
wouldn't hurt his feelings, it, right, Okay, I mean it
really gets Tom Hanks through right right.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh no, it's great, okay, great, okay, good good good?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, No he has not he so he hasn't seen.
I mean, he was not there. It might be a
lot to ask, but he when we did the show,
the and just like that, you know, he went, they
would come with us in the summer and enjoy, you know,
the New York of it all when you're working, which
is fun. He was confused, you know. He'd come to
work and he knew Michael Patrick by then and he'd
be like, you know, there's all this food and snats,
(13:35):
and mommy's friends are here. And then when they were
promoting it, they put us on the bus.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, and we're going to school with it. And he said, mommy,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Why are you and your friends in the bus? Yeah?
And I was like, well, remember in New York we
were working that that that's it. He was like, oh,
but I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I don't It is so strange.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I always thought that the main thing that I felt
like I wanted to sort of when they were little,
protect them from. Was the idea of having to share
your yes. Yes, That I think is the thing where
it's a little dicey for them. It's like, well, wait
a second.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Definitely you're my dad or definitely yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And people are coming up for a picture or whatever. Right,
it's sort of like you're supposed to you know, that
thing when you were a little I remember that feeling
of not wanting my mom to go and talk to
other kids or were of course, you know whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, that's why I try not to, like, if they're there,
I just try to have a boundary that I don't
take pictures with people. I always feel terribly guilty, but
I just feel like it's weird.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, you know when they were little, I did the
same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, nine years older, my fourteen year old is now
hyper aware, like if we're somewhere and there's a group
of young women who have figured me out or whatever,
she's like, Mom, go that's right, She's like, go, she's
so cutely protected, does she?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Because my kids did the same thing, and then they
got to the point where because I always said a
note of pictures when they were around, and then they
came to a point where they were like, dad, take
a picture, they want to a picture. Go and they
were like very like they were like my publicist or
like they wanted to see the interaction.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They found it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Interesting interesting, Well with severance, it must be because like
parks and rec and then and then said, but sever
seems like to be like lunatic level fans.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, well they they're they're uh, they're very it's a
really dedicated. The fans are unbelievably creative. I see the theories, yes,
but also that they create a lot of art online
and posted on like Instagram and stuff that the drawings and.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And the videos. Wow, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, So the fandom around the show has been super interesting,
but it's all very intelligent. So it's never gotten to
a place it's all it's all really I think. Great,
it's a really smart.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Because the show.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I mean, that's the thing that's amazing about the success
of the show is that it's like way too smart.
Like you would never look at that show and think
like this is going to be huge, you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Know, right right? Yeah it was. Yeah, it was a
big surprise. It's amazing. It's amazing, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah,
Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
you a Charlotte? Hey, everybody, welcome back to Are You
a Charlotte? We have a special little episode with Adam
Scott because we just love him so much and we
couldn't stop talking to him. So here's a little extra
more time with the lovely Adam Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That was interesting that you said you and your daughter
don't watch that kind of thing like awards shows? Are
you just like because I at a certain point I
stopped reading entertainment press altogether. I think that's why, like
five years ago, because I was like, this never makes
me feel good, right, nor is it like super interesting?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
True? So what am I doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And I kind of just phased it out and so
but it was for my own like mental health definitely,
like eight years ago. So yeah, and now I'm not
as kind of strict about her or whatever. But I
think it's good to if you're in entertainment, sometimes it's
(01:10):
good to pull back. So yeah, what's behind that?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I mean? For me, I think a couple things like
when I had watched a lot of craziness go on,
like when Sarah Jessca got pregnant, they meaning the paparazzi
and or at that time there was no limits on
what the magazines were buying and printing, right, Yeah, so
they tortured her.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I mean it was so insane.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Followed her around, like, followed her, chased her, almost ran
her off the road like insanity. Like when they brought James,
their first child home, I went to see him and
they were in their brownstone in the village. Everyone knew
where she lived. We had this one particular crazy paparazzi
who I don't want to say his name, but you
probably know who would They would sometimes have a battle
(01:54):
between the two of them, because the paparazzi would stay
with us for the entire day, right like eighteen hours
or whatever, hang out, yeah, just eat our craft services,
and you know, you'd have to say like could you
please get on the shop, you know, like that, And
after a while sometimes we'd get tired, you know, and
if Sarah was tired or we were trying to learn
our lines. The other thing is that like we would
be pricing our lines or whatever, and if we frowned,
they'd put a picture and be like, Kristin and Sarah
(02:16):
are frighting or whatever. Insanity, right, like, you just get
so sick of it. So sometimes Sarah would hold her
sides up right. That would make him mad. So he
would turn to the crowd who was watching and tell
her address what I know. I know, I was messed up.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
It was messed up.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So I was always nicer to him because I was scared,
you know what I mean. So when I went to
see James.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Right right, Well, I remember when they had their first kid, James.
I remember seeing on the news them on their front
sight being like here he is.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It was in front of the hospital, was in front
of just like showing them, I know, like a wal
off now exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And they thought that was going to work, and they didn't.
She was exhausted and they had to prance themselves out there,
and they thought, okay, now the price tag will go
from his head, right, No, So I go over there
to see the baby. They're up on the top floor
of their brownstone. When you would look down, they couldn't
drive down the street because it was just like like
(03:17):
maybe a hundred paparazzi. Then they rented an apartment in
the building across from them to photograph through the windows. Wait,
meaning the paparazzi rented. That's how much money they were
making photograph.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh my god. Right, So I watched all that. Any
questions go ahead.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Now, is that because of social media has a certain
fervor died down as far as that stuff goes, because
those photos don't have the value they used to.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And also because like Jennifer Garner and Kristen Bell and
Dax went and fought and went to the magazines and said,
you guys have to stop buying them. You know, that
made a huge difference. And that was when that was
after I had adopted my first child. But my whole
visual sense of like what that was like my whole
(04:07):
goal in my career. I don't know if this is smart,
but my goal was to be like moderately famous. You're
trying to say, like not even moderately famous, but like
moderately successful, and with that comes the moderate fame, right, Yeah,
but not to be you know, like I didn't ever
want to be show alone.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That yeah, up close was crazy and that was that
like late nineties early thoughts was sort of the peak
of that insanity.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It certainly was. It certainly was, And Sarah was right
smack in the middle of it, and it was scary.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So it scared me a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So I thought, like on a certain level, I thought
like when I first adopted my child, I kept her,
you know, hidden in the house for quite some time,
Like we would walk her like five in the morning,
you know, you have to stroll the baby, right, be
up at five in the morning again in the dark.
You know. I was really really paranoid because I knew
that once they found out that, then my life be stressful, right,
(05:01):
And it was. I lived at the end of a
cul de sac at the time, and they would just
line the street and we would peak out. We would
peak out because someone leaked it, right, so they have
publicist calls and they're like, they're gonna leak it, so
we'd better tell them and try to get the price down, right.
So you went through all the nonsense exactly. And I
had a nanny, you know, baby nurse with me, and
we'd stocked up on food and we were gonna like
how long can we hold up, you.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And then eventually they figured out that I could see them,
so they moved down the street and I thought they
were gone, so I left. I did not take gema
with me the baby I had to do at this point, right,
So I leave the house and I'm on the phone
with my publicist, you know, and I'm like, I think
I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I think I'm okay. And as I get I lived
up in the hills.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
As I get down the hill, I realized, no, there's
like eight cars trailing me, which is luckily not my
normal life, you know, Thank god.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's so crazy to think of it, because you guys
were such a cultural phenomenon for such a such a
long period of time. Time Like, that's those are the
repercussions of that. That's what happens. It's true, you are
It's true.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It's one of the repercussions. Yeah, insane, It was insane.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It always scares me, you know, to be chased, like
it's weird.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't like it. It's weird to have strangers, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Like eventually, eventually, like and I would get out and
I would joke with them. They followed me for the
entire day and I didn't have her with me, and
I was like, guys, I don't have the baby, you
can go, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
What I mean. But they didn't go.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I think they thought I was just going to find
her somewhere, or she was going to show going.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
To the grocery store. I was just outside.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They would just be sitting there, you know, and then
be like, how is it to be a new mom Kristin.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I'd be like, it's great, Please.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Go, you know, I mean, you know, it's it's a
weird thing. And I think I do think there's cynicism
in the world about this, thinking that we all did
want this right, you know, because of reality TV and
all that. But that didn't exists when we were trying
to get work. It was not part of the equation.
But we are obviously very rewarded as well. So I
(07:09):
don't mean to complain.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But it was here.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I think it was also a very specific time time,
and you guys were in a very specific circumstances because
you were on this particular show that struck a particular chord.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Everyone was fascinated with everything you guys were doing.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's true, and I mean, in a way, that's amazing.
And I did have a friend who was on a
different show. I don't feel like I should name him,
but he was on a different show that had that
level and they followed him around and everything, and then
he the show ended, and I remember him saying to
me and not they stopped following him because then he
got married and had kids and they went through that.
But he did say after a few years, he said,
(07:47):
you know, the thing that's important to remember is that
this is a moment in time. It's not going to
go on forever. And that's you don't feel that when
you're being chased, but you do have to go like,
this is a moment in time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's not going to go on.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Forever, and they're not going to hurt me. You know,
you have to like have a whole talk with yourself.
And of course obviously they didn't hurt me and some
of the organizer than others.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And did you did you have a good therapist? And
because I would know, I'm serious, like I would imagine
it was.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I did have a good therapist for a long time,
and then once once I adopted my daughter, then like
you don't have time for your own therapy, But not
to say that I didn't need it, you know what
I mean. Back to your question, I think that was
(08:36):
part of how I decided, Like you know, let's close
out some of that stuff in the house, right, Like,
let's not let it kind of come in as much.
And I think I was much more into I didn't
really read reviews so much, like people would just tell
me about them usually, you know, because you can't really
get away from them. But like I would watch ET
(08:58):
or whatever, you know, stuff like that because Michael Patrick
used to call it our news, like it was our
news show, you know, which is now like all of
social media is entertainment news. But back then I used
to watch stuff like that, And I do think there
was a part of me where I was like, I
don't want my child to know me as that. Yeah,
I just want to have our own bubble as much
(09:20):
as we can, you know. And I tried to, like
for a long time, like sometimes you know, people would
come up to us and say, you know how people
talk to you like they know you, and then they'd
walk away, and I just try to be really if
my daughter and now I have a son too, if
they were there, I would just try to like make
it as brief as possible and keep going and GENER
would just be like, do you know her? They'd be like, no, baby,
(09:41):
I don't know her not and they'd be oh. And
then one time, this was one of those light bulb
moments for her. We were I had an apartment in
New York still the show was done. I was there
promoting like a Christmas movie or something. It was Thanksgiving.
Our apartment was on Central Park West where they would
prepare the flow first yeah, for the parade, which is
(10:02):
really cool. But we were trying to fly to my
mom's on Thanksgiving and the streets were closed, right, so
we had to like kind of run through the crowd
to get to our car, and all the police were
there right with the barricades whatever, and all the police
were like, hey, you know, the New York police are
like so nice, you know, and so they said let's
take every you take a picture and I was like sure, shark,
(10:23):
because it's the police, right. And Jama was just standing
there like what is going on?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Like why the police? What the car? It was really weird.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And then my other really funny moment a similar age.
She's like probably seven to eight, right. We were on
a plane going somewhere and we're in those first class
with a big screen. She's sitting next to me and
there's a lady in front watching one of our things,
and she leans over and she's like, mom, that lady
(10:54):
on the screen looks like you.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I was like, yes, you know, it is it is me.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It is me. She's like, whoa what are you doing?
And I was like, oh my god, what am I doing?
What am I about to do? Like which episode?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Like what's happening? What's happening?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And I think it was maybe the first movie. And
then I was like, Okay, it's going to be fine.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And then she had met the others, like socially right,
so she was just like, Mommy's on the screen.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
With her friends.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, you know, which was a great way to go.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, that's a that's a that's a really nice way
to go exactly. Mom and her friends just happened to
be very popular.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, they happened to get to work together. How amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And then as time goes on, obviously you're not able
to keep that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I remember one time also, this was funny.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I have my elephant charity, which I mentioned to you earlier,
and one time they asked Emma at school, you know,
everyone's going around seeing what their parents did, and she said,
my mommy works for the elephants.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I was like, yeah, what are great to think your mom?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, I mean now she knows the truth. But you
know what I mean, So I just I just did
just Fanny. She's fourteen now and he's seven, and he
didn't really get what's his name? His name is Wilson. Yes,
very hard to name a boy child. Did you have
a hard time naming your We.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Did, yes, Graham is his name good? It's a good name.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It's a good name.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, we were we we had a few contenders, but
that and I forget what. Well, but where I discovered
it came from I think was maybe Graham Chapman from
Monty Python, Graham Parsons, but we were never quite sure
where it came from.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Back they just come, they just come. It took me
weeks to name my child. My mom was really mad
at me.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
They just so much.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
At the beginning, I thought it was after August Wilson.
You know, you have these ideas, right, You're like, ex
after August Wilson. Well, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
He is like a basketball obsessed and he's like, mommy.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
My name is on the basketball and I'm like, oh,
there it is. He has not I wanted to. I
think it's it's so good if you haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It that while I mean it is so good, it
wouldn't hurt his feelings, it, right, Okay, I mean it
really gets Tom Hanks through right right.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh no, it's great, okay, great, okay, good good good?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, No he has not he so he hasn't seen.
I mean, he was not there. It might be a
lot to ask, but he when we did the show,
the and just like that, you know, he went, they
would come with us in the summer and enjoy, you know,
the New York of it all when you're working, which
is fun. He was confused, you know. He'd come to
work and he knew Michael Patrick by then and he'd
be like, you know, there's all this food and snats,
(13:35):
and mommy's friends are here. And then when they were
promoting it, they put us on the bus.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, and we're going to school with it. And he said, mommy,
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Why are you and your friends in the bus? Yeah?
And I was like, well, remember in New York we
were working that that that's it. He was like, oh,
but I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I don't It is so strange.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I always thought that the main thing that I felt
like I wanted to sort of when they were little,
protect them from. Was the idea of having to share
your yes. Yes, That I think is the thing where
it's a little dicey for them. It's like, well, wait
a second.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Definitely you're my dad or definitely yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And people are coming up for a picture or whatever. Right,
it's sort of like you're supposed to you know, that
thing when you were a little I remember that feeling
of not wanting my mom to go and talk to
other kids or were of course, you know whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, that's why I try not to, like, if they're there,
I just try to have a boundary that I don't
take pictures with people. I always feel terribly guilty, but
I just feel like it's weird.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, you know when they were little, I did the
same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, nine years older, my fourteen year old is now
hyper aware, like if we're somewhere and there's a group
of young women who have figured me out or whatever,
she's like, Mom, go that's right, She's like, go, she's
so cutely protected, does she?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Because my kids did the same thing, and then they
got to the point where because I always said a
note of pictures when they were around, and then they
came to a point where they were like, dad, take
a picture, they want to a picture. Go and they
were like very like they were like my publicist or
like they wanted to see the interaction.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They found it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Interesting interesting, Well with severance, it must be because like
parks and rec and then and then said, but sever
seems like to be like lunatic level fans.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, well they they're they're uh, they're very it's a
really dedicated. The fans are unbelievably creative. I see the theories, yes,
but also that they create a lot of art online
and posted on like Instagram and stuff that the drawings and.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And the videos. Wow, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, So the fandom around the show has been super interesting,
but it's all very intelligent. So it's never gotten to
a place it's all it's all really I think. Great,
it's a really smart.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Because the show.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I mean, that's the thing that's amazing about the success
of the show is that it's like way too smart.
Like you would never look at that show and think
like this is going to be huge, you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Know, right right? Yeah it was. Yeah, it was a
big surprise. It's amazing. It's amazing, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah,
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