Kristin Davis continues to be moved to tears by her late buddy and Sex and the City costar, Willie Garson.

The actress, who performed the inimitable Charlotte York on the hit HBO collection, needed to lower to business break on the primary episode of her new Intercourse and the Metropolis rewatch podcast Are You a Charlotte? after she started crying whereas discussing his efficiency within the present's pilot episode. Garson, who starred as Carrie's (Sarah Jessica Parker) bestie Stanford Blatch, died in September 2021 following a personal battle with pancreatic most cancers.

“Oh my God, I forgot Willie! Oh my God, when Willie comes on the display screen — I would cry, sorry, however, he’s so younger,” Davis mentioned, her voice changing into thick with emotion. “And he’s so lovely and I’d actually, I’d forgotten, ? Sorry.”

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The 59-year-old needed to pause the present throughout Garson and Parker's first scene collectively. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God.’ We have been simply little, little infants, ? And he’s so humorous. And their relationship is so nice, and so they had been mates for thus lengthy, so I find it irresistible, that it’s on digicam,” she mentioned, sniffling. Her voice wobbled as she added, “I’ve to cease only for a bit of second.”

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Davis returned to additional talk about the scene after a short interlude. “I used to be serious about the scene that Willie and Sarah are in collectively and he's telling her, like, ‘Don't go speak to him.’ And she or he's like, ‘No. No. I'm doing analysis.’ And she or he's so seductive and humorous and, like, her eyes," Davis mentioned. "I'm like, nicely, who might say no to her? Like, who might say no to her? She's unbelievable. In order that was enjoyable to look at.”

Earlier within the episode, Davis defined that Garson was current for her very first check for the position of Charlotte on the HBO constructing in Los Angeles. “Willie Garson was there, and I knew Willie already. I had met Willie in Vancouver most likely the 12 months earlier than, and I cherished him a lot,” she recalled. “So thank god he was there, as a result of I needed to watch for hours earlier than I might go in and skim.”

He additionally helped make Davis really feel extra snug each time her nerves determined to kick in as they waited for his or her particular person readings. “We're there for thus lengthy that I'd be nervous, after which I'd get un-nervous,” she mentioned. “After which Willie would inform me a comic story, made me chuckle, and I'd be un-nervous after which I get nervous once more.”

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In complete, Davis mentioned that she waited someplace round 5 hours for her audition — with Garson at her facet the entire time. “I’m going in. I learn. Then I’m going again out. That is how testing labored. It’s a must to wait after which they're gonna come again out and provide you with notes or let you know to go residence or no matter,” she mentioned. “It's very worrying. And Willie is rather like, ‘Oh my god. I've had it.’ You realize, he's so humorous.”

This isn’t the primary time that Davis has develop into emotional whereas remembering Garson and his legacy. She beforehand broke down in tears whereas paying tribute to the actor throughout a go to to The Tamron Corridor Present in 2021.

"I'm nonetheless not collectively about it, clearly. It's exhausting, as a result of we have been working the entire time, and we didn't know after we began how sick he was," Davis mentioned on the time. "He didn't need us to know. He was simply the lifetime of the set as he all the time has been, it was clearly horrible, the entire chain of occasions. We miss him, and the truth that he's not right here may be very tough nonetheless."

Garson reprised his position as Stanford in three episodes And Just Like That previous to his loss of life. His character was finally written off in season 2, with Stanford going off to develop into a Shinto monk in Kyoto.

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Hearken to Davis keep in mind Garson within the podcast above.

And Simply Like That season 3 will premiere on HBO and Max later this 12 months. Learn concerning the present’s subsequent chapter in EW’s 2025 Preview.

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