Kristin Davis will always be Charlotte in her heart.
On Thursday, Jan. 8, the actress, 60, chatted exclusively with PEOPLE at the Golden Globe Awards’ Golden Eve event in Los Angeles, where she presented her longtime friend and costar Sarah Jessica Parker with the Carol Burnett Award.
When asked about the conclusion of the Sex and the City revival series, And Just Like That…, and whether it brought a close to the chapter for her, Davis had a set response: “No.”
The spin-off series aired its series finale on HBO Max in August after three seasons. And Just Like That…, which first premiered in December 2021, picked up with the beloved Sex and the City ladies — Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Davis) — 10 years after the events of the 2010 film Sex and the City 2. (Original star Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones, only returned for a one-episode cameo.)
The new show saw the women exploring life and relationships in their 50s, and the decision to end the series after its third season was announced just two weeks before the finale aired.
At the time, showrunner Michael Patrick King wrote in a statement posted on Instagram, “And Just Like That…. the ongoing storytelling of the Sex and the City universe is coming to an end.”
“While I was writing the last episode of And Just Like That… season 3, it became clear to me that this might be a wonderful place to stop,” he continued. “Along with Sarah Jessica Parker, Casey Bloys and Sarah Aubrey, we decided to end the popular series this year with a two-part finale and extended the original series order from 10 episodes to 12.”
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King then explained why the team behind the series made a conscious decision to delay revealing that season 3 would be the show’s last. “SJP and I held off announcing the news until now because we didn’t want the world ‘final’ to overshadow the fun of watching the season,” he wrote, referring to Parker, 60.
Resharing King’s post on her Instagram Stories at the time, Davis wrote, “I am profoundly sad. I love our whole beautiful cast and crew. 400 artisans working so hard on our show with deep love. And to our loyal fans, we love you forever and ever.”
Davis later revealed on the Sept. 17 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show that she was just as surprised as fans were to learn the news.
“Our commitment that we had made was a three-year commitment to each other, so we knew that part,” Davis said. “But I just assumed that we were gonna keep going. That’s how I am, you know what I mean?”
Davis gave a nod to Sex and the City — and Parker’s character, Carrie — while speaking with PEOPLE about the “amazing” honor of presenting Parker with her award at the Golden Eve event.
“We’re too young to be getting these lifetime achievement things, so it’s a little freaky,” she joked. “But I’m thrilled to give it to her. I’m thrilled to be here. I’m thrilled that they’re thinking of her in that way.”
“I think it’s incredibly appropriate, and her lifelong career gift is incredible, but also Carrie is such a special, special character, and she [Parker] has so much to do with it, both on screen and off in terms of crafting the character and crafting the storylines, and it just means so much,” she added.
Davis opened up about her award speech for Parker on the Jan. 9 episode of her podcast, Are You a Charlotte?. She shared how her “whole challenge” for the night was to get through her speech without crying.
“I wrote my own speech, which I felt like I needed to do so that it could be, you know, what I want to say from my heart to her because it’s so rare,” Davis said. “It’s so rare that you get to stand up on a stage and talk about one of your friends.”
“I did what I wanted to do,” she added of nailing her speech. “And I know this because [Parker] had to get a tissue out, which is very, very rare, you guys. Very, very rare.”