It’s been almost two years since Matthew Perry handed away at age 54, however his legacy lives on, not simply via the infinitely rewatchable TV collection Mates, however via the tales of those that crossed paths with him through the years. Intercourse and the Metropolis star Kristin Davis revealed she was as soon as “arrange” with Perry on the peak of his fame, and she or he had constructive recollections of how “blissful” he was.
Kristin Davis — aka Charlotte on the SATC spinoff And Simply Like That…, whose collection finale simply aired on the 2025 TV schedule — recalled on an episode of her Are You a Charlotte? podcast a date she had with the Mates star at a cocktail party almost 30 years in the past. She stated:
So I had been arrange by a very nice lawyer who I nonetheless know. He’s not my lawyer, however he’s a very nice lawyer, and I’ve been arrange with Matthew Perry. That is ’98, ’99, ’97 possibly? I really feel prefer it was between Melrose Place, which I did earlier than [Sex and the City]. It was at a home, it was a cocktail party. It was so low-key, I assumed.
Kristin Davis stated she remembers bringing flowers to the occasion and seeing “a bunch of Hollywood individuals,” although she didn’t bear in mind anybody particularly aside from Matthew Perry and her lawyer good friend. She went on to present her impression of the person identified for executing Chandler Bing’s hilarious strains on Mates. Davis continued:
Matthew’s pretty. He sits subsequent to me, and he’s speaking about how thrilled he’s, how blissful they’re on the set at Mates. He was doing a movie with … Salma Hayek out within the desert, proper? So he would movie at Mates after which they’d put him in a automotive and drive him out to the desert and so they’d movie all night time after which he’d drive again. It was very onerous, proper?
It seems like juggling the filming schedules of Mates and 1997’s Fools Rush In was fairly intense, however Kristin Davis stated Matthew Perry appeared actually happy with the way in which his profession was going. Sadly, that wasn’t one thing she might essentially relate to. She continued:
I used to be like, ‘Wow, he’s so blissful!’ I had been round Melrose and it wasn’t the happiest place, in a approach, you understand? It was, like, stressy. There have been 15 collection regulars, everybody had the sensation they may get minimize. It was sort of aggressive and stressy, you understand? So I used to be like, ‘Wow that’s wonderful, you’re so blissful!’
One has to marvel if Kristin Davis was a bit jealous of the Mates solid, as she, too, had auditioned for the a part of Monica (who ended up marrying Matthew Perry’s Chandler). Davis was additionally allegedly current when Courteney Cox determined to purchase a Porsche to have fun getting the position.
The Intercourse and the Metropolis star did find yourself guest-starring on Mates in a single Season 7 episode that aired in 2000. She performed Erin, who bonded with Rachel and Phoebe after what was imagined to be a one-night stand with Joey.
All 10 seasons of Mates can be found to stream with an HBO Max subscription, and you’ll see Kristin Davis on the divisive collection finale of And Simply Like That… — which acquired abysmal critiques from critics. That collection can be obtainable on HBO Max.