Sarah Jessica Parker taught Kristin Davis that you can never be overdressed

Having concluded her rewatch of Sex and the City‘s first season and taken a two-part victory lap with her on-and-off-screen chum Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis dove into season two on the latest episode of her podcast Are You a Charlotte?. And, once again, we’ve learned how working on this long-lasting franchise has given her valuable life lessons.

Proving that a great host doesn’t need a guest — just an instinct to waltz with memory down the corridors of her mind — Davis flew solo with observations about “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” the second season’s premiere that took the gals (Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, and Cynthia Nixon) up to Yankee Stadium — which was actually shot at one of the amphitheaters at the USTA National Tennis Center (now called the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center).

Before musing about attending sporting events in real life (and wondering if balls fly into the stands at basketball and football games as frequently as at baseball games), she remarked that Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, was “too dressed up for where we were going,” but then stopped herself.

Carrie being overdressed is “very important,” Davis remarked, “because this is gonna go on, like, even now in life. We’re getting ready to go out and promote And Just Like That,” she explained, touching on the current SATC sequel series. “And I always have to check in with Sarah Jessica.”

She continued, “I need to know what Sarah Jessica’s gonna wear to our different events, because she might be wearing something that is, like, way dressier than what I pictured in my mind, and I hate to be out of sync with her.” Who wouldn’t?!? 

“So this is a very important point,” Davis explained. “[Carrie] basically says that she doesn’t care if she’s too dressed up, because it’s more important that she look good in case she runs into [the character’s then ex-boyfriend] Big. But in general, the important fact is she doesn’t care if she’s too dressed up. That is important to know for life and the show.”

That’s when Davis got philosophical. “And you know what?” she asked. “There’s a part of me always, like, ‘Oh my gosh, why do I have to dress up so much all the time?’ But on the other hand, it’s fun to dress up. And in life, I really don’t dress up at all. So when we haven’t worked for a while, then we go back to work and we get to get in all the clothes, I love it so much, because I don’t do it that much.”

She concluded, “And so I think it’s a good thing to remember. Like, it can make you feel good to dress up.”

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For more of Kristin Davis’ musings as she reflects on the episode “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” you can, and should, perhaps must, listen to it in its entirety below.