Kristin Davis, June 2023.Photo:Eugene Gologursky/Getty
Eugene Gologursky/Getty
Kristin Davisand herSex and the CitycostarsSarah Jessica ParkerandCynthia Nixonknew they still had something to say when they signed on for the series revivalAnd Just Like That…“Just because we’re in our 50s doesn’t mean we don’t have important stories to tell,” says Davis, 58.
Those stories connected with fans, and the series was recentlypicked up for a third season, but what Davis didn’t entirely expect was the level of"hyper scrutiny"on the actresses who returned as Charlotte, Carrie and Miranda nearly two decades later — and two decades older. “We we were like, ‘It’s okay. It’ll be fine,'” Davis says. “Well, it’s one thing to think about it. Then you get there and you’re like, ‘Oh, gosh. This is so intense.'”
But age has also brought perspective, she says. “When you get older you’re like ‘What makes me happy? How am I enriched or can I enrich someone else?’ You’re thinking in a deeper way, and I love that part of aging,” she says. “As you grow older, you think about those things more and it balances out the kind of hyper-focus on what you look like.”
Davis with her And Just Like That co-stars Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker in June 2023.Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Davis says as she’s grown older, she’s also become “more choosy about how I spend my time. I have two kids [Gemma Rose, whom she adopted in 2011, andWilson, whom she adopted in 2018] so everything is filtered through how much time I have separate from them, which isn’t a lot, but I only do something if it’s really important to me and is going to contribute to the world.”
One of those things important to her is the advocacy work she does as a Goodwill Ambassador for theUnited Nations High Commission for Refugees. “It’s very grounding for me,” Davis says of the trips she takes for the organization and the experience of meeting refugees. “It’s not about how you look, or what your last project was, it’s about what you’re actually doing and who you are.”
On her most recent trip for the UNHCR earlier this month Davis traveled to Moldova, where she met Ukrainian refugees who were forced toflee the warin their country. “One 20-year-old we met, Angelina, was telling us that a missile fell and killed her father right in front of her. She couldn’t come to terms with how to think about the world,” Davis says. “You hear these stories from people and there could be nothing further from my mind than people’s opinion of my face on Instagram.”
Kristin Davis visiting a yoga class at a center for Ukrainian refugees in Chisinau, Moldova, September 2023.UNHCR/Jordi Matas
UNHCR/Jordi Matas
“It’s a beautiful country but it’s not like Moldova is a rich country with a lot of resources to spare,” Davis says. “The Ukrainian refugees are coming across the border in a state of shock, having to flee their homes, and a large number of people in Moldova drove to the border in their own cars to pick them up. They have been very, very warm and welcoming.”
Kristin Davis visting a yoga class for Ukrainian refugees in Chisinau, Moldova. September 2023.UNHCR/Jordi Matas
Davis knows from personal experience how restorative yoga can be. Before she got her breakout role onMelrose Placein 1995, she took yoga classes and then taught the practice herself. “It was part of what helped me get through, stay grounded and not go crazy with all the rejection and insanity that our business can bring,” she says
To donate to the UNHCR, which provides emergency aid to refugees worldwide and helps them settle in a safe place, clickhere.
source: people.com
