The text from my cousin Beth read, “Casting needs extras for the upcoming 3rd season of ‘And Just Like That’!”
My body burned. Was it menopause or PTSD?
“Send in your headshot,” Beth texted, encouraging me to see if I could get a spot on the follow-up series to “Sex and the City.”
“No way,” I texted back, not wanting to be humiliated again.
My essays about what it was like to be the stand-in for Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte on “Sex and the City,” went viral a few years ago. As her stand-in for four years, I mimicked the positions she would use in each scene so that the production team could work out all of the technical kinks, like lighting and camera setup, before each scene was shot. I thought my job would be a stepping stone to getting a speaking part on the iconic HBO series, and then I’d land my big break. Instead, the experience paralyzed me.
