With And Just Like That currently making a spectacle of itself, more people than ever, it seems, are rewatching Sex and the City. Among those people, of course, is Kristin Davis, whose rewatch podcast Are You a Charlotte? is a bit of a sensation.

Those that return to the initial episodes are often surprised by the stylistic quirks of the show's early days — specifically the "talking head" interviews with people on the street, and when Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie Bradshaw would regularly "break the fourth wall" and directly address the camera.

The topic came up again when John Benjamin Hickey stopped by Davis' studio this week to chat about his time on the show as Thomas John Andersen, a playwright who is dating Cynthia Nixon's Miranda, but has a lot of Catholic guilt about premarital sex.

Davis reiterated that both the series' primary director Michael Patrick King and Parker disliked the gimmick.

"Sarah Jessica's very open mission was to get rid of talking to the camera," Davis recollected. "Because I remember in the pilot her saying, 'You know, do I have to talk to the camera? It's so strange to break the fourth wall. I'm in this scene.'"

Davis explained that she "wasn't wrong" and it was a "weird thing for an actor," before sharing that Parker told her she was "worried about Ferris Bueller, which I had never thought of."

Of course, the iconic rascal teenager Ferris Bueller wasn't the first character ever to talk directly to the camera, but the man who played him, Matthew Broderick, was Parker's (then quite new) husband. (This is now your cue to say "aha!")

And Hickey pretty much did that exact thing. (He actually said "wow," then added that "nobody ever did it better," referring to Broderick in the classic John Hughes comedy.)

Davis said that Parker "thought she was never going to live up to that, which is so adorable."

Continuing to praise Parker (a common theme on this podcast!), Davis said, "I had never seen an actress be able to speak so clearly about what they wanted to do and what they didn't want to do without being angry or histrionic or whatever. Just very clearly articulating why it was hard for her, why she felt like she wasn't doing it well, how she felt like it was better to stay with us in the scene. And I was like, 'Yes. Yes. I agree with her.'" Then she zinged, "Not that anyone cares what I think over here!"

Incidentally, the Tony-winning Hickey, who played opposite Nixon again on The Big C, recently directed a Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, which starred Parker and Broderick. (Way to save on car fare!)

To listen to all of Hickey's appearance on Are You a Charlotte? you can check out the link below.