Cynthia Nixon can be forgiven for mixing up iconic brunette Kristins.

The Sex and the City star recently confessed to her costar Kristin Davis that she “didn’t know who you were” before the cast met for the first time to shoot the pilot. “I looked at the way you spelled your first name with an I, which is unusual, two I’s,” she said on Sunday’s episode of Davis’ Are You A Charlotte? podcast, “basically, I decided you were Kristin Scott Thomas.”

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“Wow! Well, thank you!” Davis said in delighted shock, adding with her tongue in her cheek, “You must have been really disappointed.” Nixon replied that she “didn’t really know who Kristin Scott Thomas was at that time” either, to which Davis reminded her, “British, incredibly beautiful.”

“I know now,” Nixon said.

Reeling from the revelation, Davis mused, “Oh my God. That’s adorable that you thought you were going to do the pilot of Sex and the City with Kristin Scott Thomas. I mean, I wish I was Kristin Scott Thomas, you know?”

“I don’t wish you were,” Nixon replied, a reassurance Davis thanked her longtime costar for.

Davis and Nixon’s career stars are forever crossed due to the breakaway success of the HBO drama, on which they both appeared for six seasons — 94 half-hour episodes — plus two films and three seasons of the spinoff series And Just Like That. But the actresses came from very different backgrounds before the series premiere in 1998.

Nixon reflected on her pre-SATC acting career to Entertainment Weekly in 2024, citing a small role in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus and a meatier role in teen dramedy Little Darlings as standouts. Nixon hinted at her origins in the theater when discussing Amadeus, saying, “The play was so huge in London and then in New York, so it was a really big deal.” Before ever stepping into the shoes of the shrewd lawyer Miranda Hobbes, Nixon had appeared in over 2,000 live performances of plays like The Philadelphia Story, The Real Thing, and Angels in America.

Davis, meanwhile, got her start in soaps, playing nurse Betsy Chilson on a season of General Hospital and the memorably villainous Brooke Armstrong across two seasons of Melrose Place. Without the call to play the WASPy art dealer Charlotte York on SATC, which put her on a rigorous production schedule for many years, “I don’t think I would be alive,” Davis shared in 2018. “I’m an addict. I’m a recovering alcoholic…. Acting is the only thing that made me want to ever get sober.”

Nixon told Davis that prior to their series, “[Sarah Jessica Parker] and I knew each other quite well. We’d worked together a bunch of times, and we were always auditioning for the same parts…. Kim I knew a little bit, I’d seen her in a few things, but also I think we had auditioned for a production of Miss Julie…. So I had some sense [of who she was].”