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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?

This is part two with Amanda Hirsch, rewatching Are We Sluts?

And she is the host of Not Skinny but Not Fat.

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So you filmed only your stuff.

So all this other stuff is being filmed.

So at the time, were you reading their scenes?

Yes, yes. We would get the script. You know, we would get the first script. When you're, you're working, you're in the middle of it. You get the script and it's the first version. It may not be, you know, what ends up being filmed, right? You'd get the script. We would all like rush home to read it or read it at lunch or whatever.

We'd be so excited, right?

Like, what's going to happen?

Then we would have a read-through with everybody because Michael Patrick's very, very old school.

So he wants to see what jokes work, where the slow parts are. You know, it's very a performative type of a read-through where like if your jokes don't hit,

they get cut, which I still am trying to explain to the young actors who played my children

and then just like that. I'm like, you guys have to like perform, okay? Because I don't want

your stuff to get cut. Oh, like you still did that. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. But it grew. It grew and grew and grew. Like in the old

and days, we would do it in this writer's room upstairs at Silver Cup. Do you know Silver Cup studios? Yeah, yeah. So, you know, it's like that old Red Factory, it's very vertical building.

It's not a normal sound stage.

And upstairs is where the writers were.

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