January 9, 2026 • 18 mins
It was a Sex and the City reunion as Sarah Jessica Parker was honored with the Carol Burnett Award. Steve, Harry, Charlotte back together and Kristin is taking us behind the scenes and backstage.
Find out who made Kristin shed tears and her favorite moments of the night.
Plus, we get a sexy Walton Goggins story!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
you a Charlotte? Hello everybody. I hope you guys are
having a great day. I was just going to do
just a little episode about this really really fun event
that we got to do this week for Sarah Jessica.
It's a brand new thing that the Golden Globes are
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doing where they do an evening before the Golden Globes
called Golden Eve and they give out two awards, and
the award Sir Jessica got is the Carol Burnett It's
basically a Lifetime Achievement Award in comedy. And then also
Dame Helen Mirren was getting this Cecil B. Demill Award,
which is basically a lifetime Achievement Award in film. So
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they did a whole special dinner, a special evening for
these two awards and we got to have a bit
of a reunion. We were missing Cynthia because she's on Broadway.
But it was really really fun, completely nerve wracking because
I had to speak and I was very scared, but
it was an incredible evening. I'm really still processing it.
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It was really intense. There were tears, there was a
lot of laughter. It was really really fun. My big
obstacles to the evening. Number one was that I really
felt so much kind of pressure, but in a good way,
pressure to speak about Sarah Jessica because I love her
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so much, as you guys know, but also I'm just
when I look at her entire career, I'm just in
awe and blown away. And as you know, I'm rewatching
the show, and every time I watch an episode, I'm
just like, she's so brilliant. Oh my gosh, Like I
didn't even know how brilliant she was at the time.
I mean, I knew she was brilliant, but every time
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I rewatched, I'm even more impressed. So I really wanted
to convey that. But I also wanted to convey what
an incredible person she was, but that's really hard to do.
So they sent me a speech, and I don't know,
if you guys know, I'm sober. I've been sober a
really long time. They sent me a speech basically about Cosmopolitans.
So I was a little confused. I guess that there's
(02:14):
you know, you're kind of toasting the winners during the evening,
and so they did give everyone a Cosmopolitan on the table,
and luckily Colemyan Domingo stuffed in to toast Sarah Jessica
with the Cosmo because it was just really I was like,
I don't think that's the job for me to discuss
the Cosmopolitan and toast with it since I don't actually
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drink it. And they were of course very understanding, and
so I wrote my own speech, which I felt like
I needed to do so that it could be you
know what I want to say from my heart to her,
because it's so rare. It's so rare that you get
to stand up on a stage and talk about one
of your friends, Cory. So my whole challenge the whole
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night was trying to get through without crying. And then
I had gone to rehearse, and you know how they
put those cards up with the pictures of the actors
and people that are going to be there. Who is
directly in front of the microphone but Harrison Ford. So
I was like, Okay, now I've met Harrison before. He's lovely,
but he is still Harrison Ford. There is nothing that
can change that, right, So I have to not be
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completely shut down by the fact that Harrison Ford is
sitting there looking at me. So luckily Sara Jessica was
at the other table right in front of me. So
my goal, and I do think I was able to
do this, was to look at her. Obviously I've been
in many work situations with her and you know, tune
into her, talk to her. But also, you know, remember
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that I'm talking to the bigger audience about her. And
I do feel like I did well. I did what
I wanted to do, and I know this because she
had to get a tissue out, which is very very rare,
you guys, very very rare. But then I also had
a moment of panic. Am I actually going to be
able to finish if she now has a tissue out
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and I can see her being moved and I am
still having to talk. So that was challenging. But I
did it. I did it, And part of the reason
that I was able to do it is because so
many friends were in the audience, basically all of HBO.
Came Casey Bloyd, who I love so much, Carolyn Strauss,
our original head of original programming at HBO when we
made the show. Incredible to see STRAUSSI as we call her,
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Amy Harris, one of our writers. You know, I could
just go on and on, Kevin Huvain, who's been Sarah's
agent for thirty years, who we love so so desperately,
people who have been in her life in my life
for such a long time and were such a pep
squad to me at the table. So basically we go
in luckily. So first I got there, Okay, first I
couldn't decide what to wear. I'll take you through the
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whole thing because I haven't been on a red carpet
in a while, and I also haven't been working in
a while, so I'm just in mommy mode. My nails
are a mess, I don't have a fake tan, like
so many things people, it's so much work I can't
even tell you. So I've been in a bit of
a low grade stress place because also it's just basically
(05:11):
right after the holidays, right, so you're in holiday mode,
and then all of a sudden you're in like red
carpet mode, very challenging. I have a wonderful stylist, Samantha McMillan,
and she got me two gorgeous, gorgeous dresses. It was
really hard to figure out what to wear because we
couldn't exactly understand what the event was because they've never
filmed it to make a TV special of it before,
(05:33):
so that was odd, and I wasn't one hundred percent
sure what Sarah was going to wear. My goal is
usually not necessarily to know exactly what she's wearing, but
I don't want to clash with her, so I usually
try to check in with her or Alyssa, who works
with her, and just say like, hey, I've got a
brown dress, I've got a black dress. Is there anything
I should think about? They're always like, whatever you want.
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But I knew that she was going to wear something sparkly.
I had a head to toe brown sequin dress that
I loved, loved very much. Then I had the dress
I ended up wearing, which was very beautiful black, simple
dress by Saint John with that kind of almost like
a necklace halter top, so it was super easy to wear.
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Both of them were super easy to wear, and I
couldn't decide till the very last minute. So I had
my hair Marcus Francis, who I love so much, my
makeup Heather Curry, who I love so much. They came over,
Samantha came over, everybody conferred, and because I had already
gone to rehearse. I had filmed the room at the time,
and the room was kind of gold and purple, beautiful flowers.
(06:35):
They did a really beautiful job to me, much more
beautiful than the room that we actually did the Golden
Globes in which has like this semi hideous carpet unless
they've changed it. But that room is really huge and
overwhelming in terms of the number of people, but also
just the number of famous faces. It's like fully overwhelming.
This was a more intimate room, but still a lot
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of famous faces. Still overwhelming, but in a more intimate way.
So when we looked at the footage of the room,
we decided to go with a black and I'm glad
I did because I was more complimentary to Sir Jessica.
I definitely felt that I was there to support Sir Jessica,
you know, which is like you have to really navigate that.
You know, you want to look good, but you don't
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want to be you know, I'm not getting an award,
She's getting an award. I feel like that's important, So
I'm happy to be there in a support element. And
I loved my Saint John dress, and they gave me
a little jacket because I was really worried I was
going to be freezing. And then I got some gorgeous
earrings and you know, my hair was down, so I
felt less less naked. But then I got to the
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red carpet a little bit early because there's construction all
around the Beverly Hilton, and I was really worried I
would be late, so I got there a little bit early.
Nobody was there yet. I saw these pictures of me
in the red carpet and I look really mad, and
I did not feel really mad. But I feel like
being on a red carpet with a bunch of photographers
is just never really that comfortable. You know. People sometimes
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are like, why is she making that face? Why is
she posing like that? About me, but also about everybody else,
because it's just very odd, you know, it's a very
odd thing. So the first pictures I saw, I was like, oh, no,
I look really mad. But then Evan came and he
brought his daughter, Sophia. He plays Harry For anyone who
doesn't know, it was such a joy to see him.
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David Eigenberg came and brought his daughter, then Sarah Jessica
and Matthew her husband, Matthew Broderick, who I love and
know obviously very well, and their son James Wilkie, who
I've been talking to since he was, you know, in
the womb. They came, and then I felt super great,
and then I looked fine for the rest of the
evening and not so mad, which was good. So they came.
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It was amazing, It was so much fun. I didn't
know that everyone was going to bring their children. I'm
sure my daughter is going to be mad that she
wasn't there. And then all of our friends came, as
I was saying, which was really great. So then we
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go into the room. A lot of fun, fun people came.
Viola Davis came to give Helen Mihr and her award.
Love Viola so so so much. Tessa Thompson came to
give Helen Mirren the award. I'd never met her, but
she's incredible, and we chatted a lot. It was really
really fun, so many great people. Ted Dance and Mary
Steinberg and his wife, incredible Harrison Ford, as I already mentioned.
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Then I look across the room and I see my
friend Walton Guggins, and I'm so excited. I've known Walton
a long time because our kids went to school together.
And you know, he's an incredible actor and he's been
acting forever. But of course he was on the White
Lotus did an unbelievable job and blew up, as you
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guys all know. And I have been so excited, and
we've been texting each other intermittently, you know, just watching
him go on S and L. I mean, all of
the things he's been doing. He's just been doing such
a great job. And that really is who he is, Like,
he's just an incredibly fascinating guy. He's always been hot
(10:09):
like that. I just don't think that people knew. I
remember I had I had someone ask me before the
show had come on, like, you know, is he hot?
And I was like, yes, are you kidding? And I
think now everyone knows that he is in fact hot.
But there was this one thing that was always feeling
a little worried for him because he's across the room,
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He's not sitting near us, and I just saw him
surrounded by these women. There were a lot of women
around him. They were all touching him. I know him,
and I know his wife Nadia. I love Naughty very much,
and I was like, I need to go over there
and help Bolton out of this situation. And there was
this one woman who's just like, you're so hot, You're
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so hot. She just kept telling him over and I
was like, okay, like back off, and she's like, and
your wife too, and I was like okay. And of
course Walton can handle himself. I'm sure he was fine,
but there was a gaggle. There was a gaggle at
one point, and I felt worried for him. So I
did go over and I get to have a really
great chat with him, and I just, you know, of course,
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told him again how thrilled I am for him, and
he's having a great time, which is nice. So that
was really really nice. It's good to see people that
you haven't seen in a while. That's kind of the
best part of going to these big award shows is
you just get to just see everybody and chat and
connect and it's fun. You know, it's very overwhelming, Like
I did not sleep last night at all, Like you
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cannot calm down. And I remember back in the olden
days when we went to these things a lot, I
just didn't sleep. I mean we would go out, of
course to the different HBO parties or whatever. It wasn't
that type of night last night, thank god, because I
don't know if I could have handled it. But like,
it's just kind of like a sensory overload in a way,
so I had to speak. I was very nervous. I
didn't know the run of show. They hadn't explained to
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me exactly the run of show, so I just knew
that I was in the first half hour. They fed
us first, which was great, but I had a little
trouble eating because I was so nervous, and I just
didn't quite know what time when I would go right
or even I knew that Coleman was giving the toast
and then they would pass to me and I would
have to get up and wind my way through this
very crowded audience up to the stage, and I was
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just hoping I could get up there, which I did.
So I was nervous. I couldn't relax, couldn't relax, couldn't relax.
Then the show starts and Matthew started the show. And
Matthew rarely rarely talks intimately about Sara Juska, so I
know that he was very nervous, and he did such
a great job he got up, he opened the show,
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and then he got up again to actually present her
with her award. And it was so great because he
talked about so many details. He talked about what she
was wearing when he met her, what he remembers about
when he met her, which is just so incredible to
think about. He remembers when they got the script for
the pilot of Sex and the City and what he thought,
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and so he told us what he thought, and then
he told us what he said to her, which is interesting.
I know she knew everything he was thinking that he
thinks he didn't say, but it was really funny to hear.
And she, when she accepted her reward, told so many
great just stories about her beginning love for performing, and
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there was a story that I didn't actually know all
of which is so crazy because so if you don't
know Sarah, Jessica has been acting since she was a child.
I think roughly ten, I want to say, and when
she was I want to say, twelve, twelve or thirteen,
she was in Annie on Broadway. And when I was young,
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I was in South Carolina, but I loved theater and
I loved acting already, and my parents took me to
see Annie on Broadway, and I saw Sarah Jessica play
an orphan in Annie on Broadway when we were in
our tweens, which is insane, but even crazier than that.
After I got out of college, I went to college
as an actor BFA in acting. I thought I would
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just do regional theater, and I was praying to God
I might get a Broadway show. One day, I went
to Cincinnati, where Sarah was born and where she was
raised in her young years, and I did a play
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare at Cincinnati Playhouse in
the Park, a beautiful theater up on a hill in Cincinnati.
I did not know that Sarah Jessica's mother met Sarah
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Jessica's father at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and all
of her siblings went to the rehearsals where their parents,
not her biological father, but her father who raised her,
met and performed. And at one point the director said
to the cast, those kids know this score of Once
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Upon a Mattress, which I'll get to in a second,
better than you guys do, meaning the cast meaning Sarah
and her brothers and sisters knew the score better. And
was that director not right, and like press in what
he was saying about those kids, Yes he was. Now.
The other crazy connection is that Sarah Jessica was getting
the Carol Burnett Award. Carol Burnett originated the role in
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Once Upon a Mattress on Broadway, And when I met
Sarah for Sex and the City, she was on Broadway
playing the lead role in Once Upon a Mattress and
I saw her. Is that not so many connections? Can
you even believe that? And I didn't even know this
story about her parents' meeting and doing a play Once
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Upon a Mattress at Cinctanti Playhouse in the Park. I mean,
it's really insane. So anyway, it was a full circle
moment in so many ways, a full circle evening. It
was insane. Sarah and I did discuss that she is
too young to beginning a Lifetime Achievement award. It is weird,
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you know, like how did this happen? What is going on?
But on the other hand, for me, I'm just thrilled
that there are honoring her. I'm thrilled that they're you know,
recognizing her contributions through her whole entire career. Like once
they started playing the clips of all of her different performances.
I mean, it's just so much fun to watch La
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story if you guys haven't seen it, incredible Honeymoon in Vegas.
I mean, she's done so much Family Stone, I'm sure
you've seen. I mean, so so so many things where
you're like, oh, And I mean, of course, then they
showed they had a whole package of sex and the City,
which of course is always fun to watch, as we
all know because we're rewatching it. But it was a
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really really fun evening, a really fun evening. And I mean,
it's just such a rare, rare thing to have this
kind of experience in life where we have gotten to
do something that we love so much for so long,
and that now we're being like recognized and I'm able
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to be there and help honor her. It boggles the mind.
I'm just so lucky and I'm gonna crack. But anyway,
it was good, good evening. Yeah I'm still not over it.
Yeah it was a lot, but it was good. Anyway.
We're gonna show you guys the pictures. And it was happy.
Don't let my tears fool you. It was all happy.
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But it really it means all right, that's it. Also,
I got to talk a lot about heated rivalry. I
find that the weirdest title I always want to say.
At the Hockey Show, I got to talk to a
lot of people about the Hockey Show yesterday. I got
to talk about all our HBO peeps, and I just
(17:43):
congratulated them on buying that show, because man, is it something.
And I got to work on trying to get Connor
on the podcast. You guys, I'm just trying all the ways,
all the ways, okay, so cross your fingers. I mean, look,
any of them. I'd like to talk to any of them.
But Connor seems to be living in lay in around
and I know people who know him. So I'm working
on it, guys. I'm working on it, okay. And if
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you haven't watched it, definitely watch he did Rivalry on
HBO and get back to me about it. Okay, all right,
thanks for listening to everybody. Pipe
Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are
you a Charlotte? Hello everybody. I hope you guys are
having a great day. I was just going to do
just a little episode about this really really fun event
that we got to do this week for Sarah Jessica.
It's a brand new thing that the Golden Globes are
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doing where they do an evening before the Golden Globes
called Golden Eve and they give out two awards, and
the award Sir Jessica got is the Carol Burnett It's
basically a Lifetime Achievement Award in comedy. And then also
Dame Helen Mirren was getting this Cecil B. Demill Award,
which is basically a lifetime Achievement Award in film. So
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they did a whole special dinner, a special evening for
these two awards and we got to have a bit
of a reunion. We were missing Cynthia because she's on Broadway.
But it was really really fun, completely nerve wracking because
I had to speak and I was very scared, but
it was an incredible evening. I'm really still processing it.
(01:06):
It was really intense. There were tears, there was a
lot of laughter. It was really really fun. My big
obstacles to the evening. Number one was that I really
felt so much kind of pressure, but in a good way,
pressure to speak about Sarah Jessica because I love her
(01:29):
so much, as you guys know, but also I'm just
when I look at her entire career, I'm just in
awe and blown away. And as you know, I'm rewatching
the show, and every time I watch an episode, I'm
just like, she's so brilliant. Oh my gosh, Like I
didn't even know how brilliant she was at the time.
I mean, I knew she was brilliant, but every time
(01:50):
I rewatched, I'm even more impressed. So I really wanted
to convey that. But I also wanted to convey what
an incredible person she was, but that's really hard to do.
So they sent me a speech, and I don't know,
if you guys know, I'm sober. I've been sober a
really long time. They sent me a speech basically about Cosmopolitans.
So I was a little confused. I guess that there's
(02:14):
you know, you're kind of toasting the winners during the evening,
and so they did give everyone a Cosmopolitan on the table,
and luckily Colemyan Domingo stuffed in to toast Sarah Jessica
with the Cosmo because it was just really I was like,
I don't think that's the job for me to discuss
the Cosmopolitan and toast with it since I don't actually
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drink it. And they were of course very understanding, and
so I wrote my own speech, which I felt like
I needed to do so that it could be you
know what I want to say from my heart to her,
because it's so rare. It's so rare that you get
to stand up on a stage and talk about one
of your friends, Cory. So my whole challenge the whole
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night was trying to get through without crying. And then
I had gone to rehearse, and you know how they
put those cards up with the pictures of the actors
and people that are going to be there. Who is
directly in front of the microphone but Harrison Ford. So
I was like, Okay, now I've met Harrison before. He's lovely,
but he is still Harrison Ford. There is nothing that
can change that, right, So I have to not be
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completely shut down by the fact that Harrison Ford is
sitting there looking at me. So luckily Sara Jessica was
at the other table right in front of me. So
my goal, and I do think I was able to
do this, was to look at her. Obviously I've been
in many work situations with her and you know, tune
into her, talk to her. But also, you know, remember
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that I'm talking to the bigger audience about her. And
I do feel like I did well. I did what
I wanted to do, and I know this because she
had to get a tissue out, which is very very rare,
you guys, very very rare. But then I also had
a moment of panic. Am I actually going to be
able to finish if she now has a tissue out
(04:05):
and I can see her being moved and I am
still having to talk. So that was challenging. But I
did it. I did it, And part of the reason
that I was able to do it is because so
many friends were in the audience, basically all of HBO.
Came Casey Bloyd, who I love so much, Carolyn Strauss,
our original head of original programming at HBO when we
made the show. Incredible to see STRAUSSI as we call her,
(04:29):
Amy Harris, one of our writers. You know, I could
just go on and on, Kevin Huvain, who's been Sarah's
agent for thirty years, who we love so so desperately,
people who have been in her life in my life
for such a long time and were such a pep
squad to me at the table. So basically we go
in luckily. So first I got there, Okay, first I
couldn't decide what to wear. I'll take you through the
(04:50):
whole thing because I haven't been on a red carpet
in a while, and I also haven't been working in
a while, so I'm just in mommy mode. My nails
are a mess, I don't have a fake tan, like
so many things people, it's so much work I can't
even tell you. So I've been in a bit of
a low grade stress place because also it's just basically
(05:11):
right after the holidays, right, so you're in holiday mode,
and then all of a sudden you're in like red
carpet mode, very challenging. I have a wonderful stylist, Samantha McMillan,
and she got me two gorgeous, gorgeous dresses. It was
really hard to figure out what to wear because we
couldn't exactly understand what the event was because they've never
filmed it to make a TV special of it before,
(05:33):
so that was odd, and I wasn't one hundred percent
sure what Sarah was going to wear. My goal is
usually not necessarily to know exactly what she's wearing, but
I don't want to clash with her, so I usually
try to check in with her or Alyssa, who works
with her, and just say like, hey, I've got a
brown dress, I've got a black dress. Is there anything
I should think about? They're always like, whatever you want.
(05:54):
But I knew that she was going to wear something sparkly.
I had a head to toe brown sequin dress that
I loved, loved very much. Then I had the dress
I ended up wearing, which was very beautiful black, simple
dress by Saint John with that kind of almost like
a necklace halter top, so it was super easy to wear.
(06:14):
Both of them were super easy to wear, and I
couldn't decide till the very last minute. So I had
my hair Marcus Francis, who I love so much, my
makeup Heather Curry, who I love so much. They came over,
Samantha came over, everybody conferred, and because I had already
gone to rehearse. I had filmed the room at the time,
and the room was kind of gold and purple, beautiful flowers.
(06:35):
They did a really beautiful job to me, much more
beautiful than the room that we actually did the Golden
Globes in which has like this semi hideous carpet unless
they've changed it. But that room is really huge and
overwhelming in terms of the number of people, but also
just the number of famous faces. It's like fully overwhelming.
This was a more intimate room, but still a lot
(06:56):
of famous faces. Still overwhelming, but in a more intimate way.
So when we looked at the footage of the room,
we decided to go with a black and I'm glad
I did because I was more complimentary to Sir Jessica.
I definitely felt that I was there to support Sir Jessica,
you know, which is like you have to really navigate that.
You know, you want to look good, but you don't
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want to be you know, I'm not getting an award,
She's getting an award. I feel like that's important, So
I'm happy to be there in a support element. And
I loved my Saint John dress, and they gave me
a little jacket because I was really worried I was
going to be freezing. And then I got some gorgeous
earrings and you know, my hair was down, so I
felt less less naked. But then I got to the
(07:39):
red carpet a little bit early because there's construction all
around the Beverly Hilton, and I was really worried I
would be late, so I got there a little bit early.
Nobody was there yet. I saw these pictures of me
in the red carpet and I look really mad, and
I did not feel really mad. But I feel like
being on a red carpet with a bunch of photographers
is just never really that comfortable. You know. People sometimes
(08:00):
are like, why is she making that face? Why is
she posing like that? About me, but also about everybody else,
because it's just very odd, you know, it's a very
odd thing. So the first pictures I saw, I was like, oh, no,
I look really mad. But then Evan came and he
brought his daughter, Sophia. He plays Harry For anyone who
doesn't know, it was such a joy to see him.
(08:21):
David Eigenberg came and brought his daughter, then Sarah Jessica
and Matthew her husband, Matthew Broderick, who I love and
know obviously very well, and their son James Wilkie, who
I've been talking to since he was, you know, in
the womb. They came, and then I felt super great,
and then I looked fine for the rest of the
evening and not so mad, which was good. So they came.
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It was amazing, It was so much fun. I didn't
know that everyone was going to bring their children. I'm
sure my daughter is going to be mad that she
wasn't there. And then all of our friends came, as
I was saying, which was really great. So then we
(09:04):
go into the room. A lot of fun, fun people came.
Viola Davis came to give Helen Mihr and her award.
Love Viola so so so much. Tessa Thompson came to
give Helen Mirren the award. I'd never met her, but
she's incredible, and we chatted a lot. It was really
really fun, so many great people. Ted Dance and Mary
Steinberg and his wife, incredible Harrison Ford, as I already mentioned.
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Then I look across the room and I see my
friend Walton Guggins, and I'm so excited. I've known Walton
a long time because our kids went to school together.
And you know, he's an incredible actor and he's been
acting forever. But of course he was on the White
Lotus did an unbelievable job and blew up, as you
(09:49):
guys all know. And I have been so excited, and
we've been texting each other intermittently, you know, just watching
him go on S and L. I mean, all of
the things he's been doing. He's just been doing such
a great job. And that really is who he is, Like,
he's just an incredibly fascinating guy. He's always been hot
(10:09):
like that. I just don't think that people knew. I
remember I had I had someone ask me before the
show had come on, like, you know, is he hot?
And I was like, yes, are you kidding? And I
think now everyone knows that he is in fact hot.
But there was this one thing that was always feeling
a little worried for him because he's across the room,
(10:30):
He's not sitting near us, and I just saw him
surrounded by these women. There were a lot of women
around him. They were all touching him. I know him,
and I know his wife Nadia. I love Naughty very much,
and I was like, I need to go over there
and help Bolton out of this situation. And there was
this one woman who's just like, you're so hot, You're
(10:52):
so hot. She just kept telling him over and I
was like, okay, like back off, and she's like, and
your wife too, and I was like okay. And of
course Walton can handle himself. I'm sure he was fine,
but there was a gaggle. There was a gaggle at
one point, and I felt worried for him. So I
did go over and I get to have a really
great chat with him, and I just, you know, of course,
(11:13):
told him again how thrilled I am for him, and
he's having a great time, which is nice. So that
was really really nice. It's good to see people that
you haven't seen in a while. That's kind of the
best part of going to these big award shows is
you just get to just see everybody and chat and
connect and it's fun. You know, it's very overwhelming, Like
I did not sleep last night at all, Like you
(11:35):
cannot calm down. And I remember back in the olden
days when we went to these things a lot, I
just didn't sleep. I mean we would go out, of
course to the different HBO parties or whatever. It wasn't
that type of night last night, thank god, because I
don't know if I could have handled it. But like,
it's just kind of like a sensory overload in a way,
so I had to speak. I was very nervous. I
didn't know the run of show. They hadn't explained to
(11:57):
me exactly the run of show, so I just knew
that I was in the first half hour. They fed
us first, which was great, but I had a little
trouble eating because I was so nervous, and I just
didn't quite know what time when I would go right
or even I knew that Coleman was giving the toast
and then they would pass to me and I would
have to get up and wind my way through this
very crowded audience up to the stage, and I was
(12:20):
just hoping I could get up there, which I did.
So I was nervous. I couldn't relax, couldn't relax, couldn't relax.
Then the show starts and Matthew started the show. And
Matthew rarely rarely talks intimately about Sara Juska, so I
know that he was very nervous, and he did such
a great job he got up, he opened the show,
(12:42):
and then he got up again to actually present her
with her award. And it was so great because he
talked about so many details. He talked about what she
was wearing when he met her, what he remembers about
when he met her, which is just so incredible to
think about. He remembers when they got the script for
the pilot of Sex and the City and what he thought,
(13:04):
and so he told us what he thought, and then
he told us what he said to her, which is interesting.
I know she knew everything he was thinking that he
thinks he didn't say, but it was really funny to hear.
And she, when she accepted her reward, told so many
great just stories about her beginning love for performing, and
(13:26):
there was a story that I didn't actually know all
of which is so crazy because so if you don't
know Sarah, Jessica has been acting since she was a child.
I think roughly ten, I want to say, and when
she was I want to say, twelve, twelve or thirteen,
she was in Annie on Broadway. And when I was young,
(13:46):
I was in South Carolina, but I loved theater and
I loved acting already, and my parents took me to
see Annie on Broadway, and I saw Sarah Jessica play
an orphan in Annie on Broadway when we were in
our tweens, which is insane, but even crazier than that.
After I got out of college, I went to college
as an actor BFA in acting. I thought I would
(14:07):
just do regional theater, and I was praying to God
I might get a Broadway show. One day, I went
to Cincinnati, where Sarah was born and where she was
raised in her young years, and I did a play
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare at Cincinnati Playhouse in
the Park, a beautiful theater up on a hill in Cincinnati.
I did not know that Sarah Jessica's mother met Sarah
(14:27):
Jessica's father at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and all
of her siblings went to the rehearsals where their parents,
not her biological father, but her father who raised her,
met and performed. And at one point the director said
to the cast, those kids know this score of Once
(14:48):
Upon a Mattress, which I'll get to in a second,
better than you guys do, meaning the cast meaning Sarah
and her brothers and sisters knew the score better. And
was that director not right, and like press in what
he was saying about those kids, Yes he was. Now.
The other crazy connection is that Sarah Jessica was getting
the Carol Burnett Award. Carol Burnett originated the role in
(15:11):
Once Upon a Mattress on Broadway, And when I met
Sarah for Sex and the City, she was on Broadway
playing the lead role in Once Upon a Mattress and
I saw her. Is that not so many connections? Can
you even believe that? And I didn't even know this
story about her parents' meeting and doing a play Once
(15:32):
Upon a Mattress at Cinctanti Playhouse in the Park. I mean,
it's really insane. So anyway, it was a full circle
moment in so many ways, a full circle evening. It
was insane. Sarah and I did discuss that she is
too young to beginning a Lifetime Achievement award. It is weird,
(15:52):
you know, like how did this happen? What is going on?
But on the other hand, for me, I'm just thrilled
that there are honoring her. I'm thrilled that they're you know,
recognizing her contributions through her whole entire career. Like once
they started playing the clips of all of her different performances.
I mean, it's just so much fun to watch La
(16:16):
story if you guys haven't seen it, incredible Honeymoon in Vegas.
I mean, she's done so much Family Stone, I'm sure
you've seen. I mean, so so so many things where
you're like, oh, And I mean, of course, then they
showed they had a whole package of sex and the City,
which of course is always fun to watch, as we
all know because we're rewatching it. But it was a
(16:36):
really really fun evening, a really fun evening. And I mean,
it's just such a rare, rare thing to have this
kind of experience in life where we have gotten to
do something that we love so much for so long,
and that now we're being like recognized and I'm able
(17:00):
to be there and help honor her. It boggles the mind.
I'm just so lucky and I'm gonna crack. But anyway,
it was good, good evening. Yeah I'm still not over it.
Yeah it was a lot, but it was good. Anyway.
We're gonna show you guys the pictures. And it was happy.
Don't let my tears fool you. It was all happy.
(17:22):
But it really it means all right, that's it. Also,
I got to talk a lot about heated rivalry. I
find that the weirdest title I always want to say.
At the Hockey Show, I got to talk to a
lot of people about the Hockey Show yesterday. I got
to talk about all our HBO peeps, and I just
(17:43):
congratulated them on buying that show, because man, is it something.
And I got to work on trying to get Connor
on the podcast. You guys, I'm just trying all the ways,
all the ways, okay, so cross your fingers. I mean, look,
any of them. I'd like to talk to any of them.
But Connor seems to be living in lay in around
and I know people who know him. So I'm working
on it, guys. I'm working on it, okay. And if
(18:05):
you haven't watched it, definitely watch he did Rivalry on
HBO and get back to me about it. Okay, all right,
thanks for listening to everybody. Pipe
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Kristin Davis
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