Kristin Davis Shares the Post-Filming Ritual She Never Missed During ‘Sex and the City’

Kristin Davis says she had one ritual after filming Sex and the City – rushing home to watch rough-cut VHS copies of the latest episode.

The actress, 61, is best known for playing Charlotte York in the HBO series, which ran from 1998 to 2004, used to sprint back from filming to watch her episodes.

“They would give us a VHS, and we would run home – I would run home at least – I can’t speak for everyone,” Davis told Jesse Tyler Ferguson during the Tuesday, July 7, episode of his Dinner’s On Me podcast. “We all had a different take on it. Maybe we got DVDs eventually. I only really remember the VHS, though. And I would run home and put it in the thing.”

Despite Davis’ video tapes containing unedited episodes, she was desperate to see what they looked like on screen.

“And it was rough, you know, at that point. Still a rough copy, right?” she continued. “So sometimes it would have like a placeholder. It wouldn’t have a special effect. It wouldn’t have music, right? But, you know, I was so curious to see what had worked, what had made it in, you know, all of the things.”

Davis appeared alongside Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon in the series, which was followed by the sequel series, And Just Like That…, from 2021 to 2025.

The franchise also includes two feature films: Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).

Some fans were left disappointed with the And Just Like That … finale, but as Examiner previously reported, Parker, 61, insisted she was unbothered by the opinions of the show’s “hate watchers”.

“I don’t think I have the constitution to have spent a lot of time thinking about that,” she told the New York Times in September 2025. “We always worked incredibly hard to tell stories that were interesting or real. I guess I don’t really care. And the reason I don’t care is because it has been so enormously successful, and the connections it has made with audiences have been very meaningful.”