Kristin Davis in the July issue of UK Marie Claire
On sex and shopping:
“I’m not really a shopper so that’s the easy one. I have to say definitely good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and to feel free you have to really trust the other person. Erm, and you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.”
On not really feeling like an adult:
“I guess, at some point I felt like I would feel like an adult. Certainly it’s very different to be 43 as opposed to when I was young and 43 seemed really, really old.”
On facing her own mortality:
“This is going to sound strange but I really didn’t think I would pass 30. I don’t know why or whatever, I just didn’t. It’s a very weird thing to say, I’m sorry. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I was drinking so much as a youth. You know, I drank a lot when I was teenager and I don’t drink anymore because that’s when I thought, you know, I’m gonna end up a car wreck. I just had a fatalistic viewpoint of the whole situation at that point.”
On being a former alcoholic:
“Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. (An only child, Kristin’s parents divorced when she was a baby. Adopted by her stepfather, a psychology professor, the family moved Columbia, South Carolina where he worked at the university.) I just didn’t feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. I mean, I don’t know how much you know about the American South but there’s a history of bourbon! People in the South get upset with me when I talk about this. It’s obviously different now but when I was a teenager everything was based on a very kind of elaborate social scene in the South. There were social clubs and high school fraternities and college. You know, I’m kind of shy normally, so I felt like I needed help and then one thing led to another and I was drinking.”
Was it a rebellious thing?
“Not so much because I was still a straight A student. I was pretty good at hiding it so my parents didn’t really know. Of course it came out and they were like, ‘Oh no, what has happened?’ What made me stop? (She was 22 years old when she became teetotal.) I realised it was not going to end well. I got into the acting programme, it was a very challenging, I was hungover and I wasn’t doing so well in my classes. I thought, ‘Do you know what? It’s going to be one or the other. I can’t really have both.”
On the SATC movie Rumours:
“Can I just say, my character doesn’t die. [laughs]. That’s really funny. Oh yeah, we did the Sex And The City movie so we could kill Charlotte. Oh yeah, that’s hysterical. No. Definitely no.”
