Speaking on the podcast, Kristin said that ahead of filming for the pilot, she was told that she needed to cut her long hair because they wanted her to look like Jill Hennessy in Law & Order. For context, Jill had a chin-length bob at the time.
Kristin ended up reluctantly going to a hair salon to get the cut after being told that if she didn’t, the show’s hairdresser would cut it for her on her first day at work. She later realized that she should have gone to her costar for help.
Later in the podcast, Kristin revealed that Sarah Jessica invited her to her trailer on her very first day on set, and Kristin was thrilled to see her costar tucking into a “huge thing of Krispy Kreme donuts.”
“I remember watching [Sarah Jessica] talking to Darren about it and thinking: ‘This woman is so strong in herself, and knows herself so well, and is talking to him in such a great way of an equal footing in terms of the creative process,’ and I hadn’t really seen that, I hadn’t really been around that,” Kristin told listeners.
Kristin then revealed how her character, Charlotte, was almost downgraded during filming, which she initially didn’t find too surprising considering how “powerful” the other three characters were in comparison.
Admitting that she was “scared” about her future on the show, Kristin said: “It was also very clear from the book and from the script and from the pilot that Charlotte’s point of view was a different point of view than the other girls.”
“And I’m so thankful that I didn’t and that I had faith in myself,” Kristin concluded. “I really am unsure why in some ways; I wasn’t the most super confident person or whatever, but I do feel like when things come to you, and you have something that connects with that, and you have something that you want to be able to express or create or whatever, and something that you want to be a part of… I knew I desperately wanted to be a part of it.”
You can listen to the first episode of Are You A Charlotte? here — let me know what you make of it in the comments below!
