Kristin Davis reveals Charlotte and Trey were supposed to have a run-in on ‘And Just Like That’

Sex and the City star Kristin Davis has revealed that one of the discarded plots on And Just Like That involved her Charlotte York Goldenblatt bumping into her first husband, the tartan-wearing, cardboard baby-giving Trey MacDougal, played by Kyle MacLachlan. But he declined.

“Like, when you have played such a a a wonderful part in the past that people have such a great memory of, and it was so special as a work experience,” Davis said on Thursday’s episode of her Are You a Charlotte? podcast. “You know, you want it to be you want it to kind of stay in this, kind of, glorious place, and I think he just didn’t want there to be kind of a sad note to the end. So I get that. I get that.”

Davis noted, on an episode addressing listeners’ questions, that she wanted to be careful not to run afoul of the show’s co-creator and executive producer Michael Patrick King with her answer.

“Michael Patrick has this thing where he doesn’t like us to talk about, ideas for stories that didn’t happen,” she said. “But I’m just gonna tell you guys that there was an idea that that Trey/Kyle would come on And Just Like That, and then it didn’t happen. And so Kyle and I had to talk about it, because I was kinda mad at him. I said, ‘Why didn’t you come on? We wanted you to come on.'”

The Twin Peaks alum had a thoughtful response.

“He said, ‘I just wanted it to be amazing, meaning that it had a kind of almost a sad note. I think I’m not saying too much. I hope Michael’s not gonna be mad at me. There was a bit of a sad note, but it had this incredible lead up to me seeing Trey again.”

EW has reached out to a rep for MacLachlan.

In the original HBO series, hopeless romantic Charlotte marries Trey, a stuffy cardiologist and from an upper-crust family, in the third season. The couple struggles with their sex life and fertility. All the while, his domineering mother Bunny (played by the late Frances Sternhagen) is determined to stay the number one woman in her son’s life.

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“And the thing that I love the most about this particular episode that did not happen is that Charlotte tells the friends that she has not communicated at all with Trey, which is kind of shocking in a way,” Davis said. “But I’ve never been married, and I’ve certainly never been divorced, so I don’t really know how that works. Do you communicate? Do you not communicate? Is it cool to be friends? Is it not cool to be friends?”

Charlotte famously went on to marry the very lawyer she hired to finalize her divorce, Harry Goldenblatt, who portrayed by Evan Handler. Harry and his bride, who converted to Judaism for him, share two daughters, Lily and Rose.

“I mean, for Charlotte, she’s obviously so happy with Harry,” Davis said. “I don’t think it would be a threat to Harry for her to communicate with Trey because of the problems with that relationship also.”

Still, Davis said, Charlotte has “kind of an unfinished feeling about [Trey], and she really wants to see him. And I, Kristen, also feel that way. So I’m hoping that we can kind of revisit a … maybe they run into each other, you know, just at an event or or at a restaurant or something like that. I think it would be so amazing to have Kyle back on. And I did give him a hard time the other day. And then he explained his point of view, and I did understand it.”

Still, Davis admitted that she thinks Trey is Charlotte’s best match than anyone other than Harry.