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Davis, 56, said it was “a shock” to see the negative reactions to her and her costars' looks in the new series — which debuted earlier this month and 17 years afterSex and the Citywrapped. Davis, who reprised her role as Charlotte York inAnd Just Like That…, spoke toThe Sunday TimesStyle Magazineabout the frustrating fascination with her onscreen appearance.
“Everyone wants to comment, pro or nay or whatever, on our hair and our faces and our this and our that,” she said. “The level of intensity of it was a shock.”
She added, “I feel angry and I don’t want to feel angry all the time, so I don’t look at it, I just know it’s there.”
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Davis stars inAnd Just Like That…alongsideSarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw) andCynthia Nixon(Miranda Hobbes), both of whom reprised their roles from the original series.Kim Cattralldid not return to play Samantha Jones in the revival.
Also in herSunday Timesinterview, Davis looked back on her days starring in the originalSex and the City, reflecting on the similar criticism she endured about her body.
“They would write articles every week about how I was ‘pear-shaped,’ which I didn’t feel was a compliment at the time,” she told theSunday Times. “It would stress me out a fair amount because I couldn’t avoid it. I kind of feel like that’s how it is now too.”
Davis continued, “But I also feel — I’m going to be blunt — I feel like, ‘F— you. F— you people, like, come over here and do it better.’ You know what I mean? Like, what are you doing?”
The actress pointed to social media as a driving force in such criticism, explaining, “That’s the problem with social media, right, is that you don’t know what those people are doing. You don’t know anything about them. They’re just hurling bombs at you. It makes me angry.”
“There’s so much misogynist chatter in response to us that would never. Happen. About. A. Man,” she said. " ‘Gray hair gray hair gray hair. Does she have gray hair?’ "
Like Davis, Parker also blamed social media for an uptick in criticisms, tellingVogue, “Everyone has something to say.”
source: people.com
