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Sex and the City Movie

Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte hit the big screen on May 30 -- until then, get scoop on the movie, plus flashbacks to the TV show

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As Charlotte, Sex and the City's ''hopeful one,'' Kristin Davis has learned a thing or two about looking on the bright side of things. It's a lesson that came in handy during the arduous four-year process to bring the SATC movie to the big screen. Here, Davis talks about the disappointment, chaos, secretiveness, and joy that she experienced along the way — and how she views the SATC legacy.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How do you feel to be here in the final stretches of the Sex and the City movie?
KRISTIN DAVIS: I feel nervous. That's how I feel. Cause it's kind of a miracle, really, when you think about [the movie's history]: the first version that didn't happen.

Yes, the movie has certainly weathered its share of setbacks: between the first one falling apart, the second one getting financed by New Line, then New Line being absorbed into Warner Bros. Yet it's kept on trucking.
Oh, absolutely. I mean, you name it and it has happened. It's funny, I was sitting next to [writer-director] Michael [Patrick King] at dinner last night, talking about the crazy insanity that has been our road. And I said to him, bashert. And he said, ''Yes.'' [Laughs]

There was also all the insane media scrutiny and hordes of paparazzi while you were shooting. Was that distracting?
Certainly, sometimes, definitely. There's this huge energetic thing that happens in New York. So I feel like it made me go into super-focus land, which is actually a good thing. At one point, my back was to the crowd and the paparazzi — the other girls were facing me — and the paparazzi were like, ''Kristin, move over! Move to the left!'' And I did it because everyone is shouting at me. It's like you're a robot. So I move over to the left and I'm like, ''What?! Wait a minute! My mark is over there. I'm supposed to be doing a scene!'' So it was a little challenging, but I don't think the movie would have been made if we didn't have that kind of fan support.

Right, the upside is that a lot of people still love the girls.
Yeah, it's just a big energy flow. We have a lot of energy when [the four of us] are together, which is partly why I think [the press has] written so much stuff about us. I remember the days when the four of us would be on set and it's just like, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz. Like vibrating. It's fun.

Why do you think there's this insistence that you all hate each other when the camera is off?
Well, you know why it is.

Because the world is sexist?
Yeah. [Laughs] That is cute. I know everyone believes there's like a kernel of truth and then they load it up, but there is just absolutely no truth. When we're together, it's all a positive situation. Michael Patrick, he's an incredible, positive force of non-judgmentalness. I don't want to sound like we're a self-help show, but I'm just saying. So it's just bizarre when the negative comes from nowhere and grows to be this huge thing. It's funny, cause I used to be on Melrose Place, and obviously, that was a soap opera. A week wouldn't go by when I didn't call another female character a bitch. And I did not enjoy that, but I knew that that was that job. Then I thought, Oh hallelujah! I'm on this other job [Sex and the City], where we're all friends and we're not competitive and isn't that fantastic? But then this crazy thing happens out in the world, where they have to make us into [enemies]. The thing that I will say is: Sometimes I want to go, ''Okay, you know what? We are four strong women. We are. We're not trying to say that we're not. We're not trying to say that we're perfect.'' We have been working together for 10 years. So does that mean that we've never had a tiff? No, we're human beings. I mean, yeah, maybe we'd have a tiff or we'd have a bad day or someone would be grumpy. Whatever, we're human, which is not to say that we're all scratching each other's eyes out. And that's where the separation happens. But I don't know, you can't control it.

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