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Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, and I want to know, are you a Charlotte?

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Welcome back to Are You a Charlotte?

We are here today with Part 2 with Michael Patrick King.

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When you were writing, so I'm going to connect it all to Charlotte. So what I see when I watch the scene with Cynthia especially is like

Charlotte and Kristen are kind of dealing with the evolution of Charlotte in terms of getting out of

some of the boxed elements of her, right? Like, you know, she's always trying so hard and she's peppy and she's whatever, blah, blah, blah. And now we're really, we're really stretching, right? Yeah, she's heartbroken. Yeah, she's heartbroken and also, but she's still going to try, right? But then she doesn't know how. Like that, you know, so it's like, you can't just deviate, right? And we're going to get to the point where I'm laying on my couch and Carrie comes and that's such a beautiful scene. Right? Like you're so, you're like building block by building block building it. You have to believe the situation. You can never, you can never lose gravity. You can't suddenly go someplace where the audience goes, wait, did I miss an episode? Right. It all has to be a little bit ahead, but just a little bit ahead of the way they are. Right, right, right. If it's too far ahead, they don't understand. Start to see, oh, she's covering, oh, she's covering, oh, that's going to be hard.

And then you see the nobility of her coming at the end and choosing friendship. Exactly. And that's what we were talking about. I don't remember that scene at all, which is interesting because I was worried about the other scene, but I don't think I was worried about that scene. But you can tell, I could tell when I come in the door that I've already been crying.

Yeah.

Right?

So that was interesting.

I don't think it was a choice, right?

I think it's probably just whatever take it. can tell, I could tell when I come in the door that I've already been crying. Yeah. Right?

So that was interesting.

I don't think it was a choice, right? I think it's probably just whatever take or whatever. And me having all, like, at that point, there's, it's pent up, you know? And then I, and I couldn't remember what I was going to say, which I love, right? Not in the scene when I was watching, right? And I love that, that you don't know.

Also, we didn't want the audience to know.

Right.

It works so good.

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