Kristin Davis Beat Hilary Swank for ‘Melrose Place’ Position (Unique)

Kristin Davis went head-to-head with Hilary Swank for her iconic function on Melrose Place.

In PEOPLE’s newest cowl story, the actress, 59, takes a stroll down reminiscence lane as she displays on her long-running profession in tv. Whereas wanting again at her time on the 1995 nightime cleaning soap, Davis reveals that the Million Greenback Child star, 50, was additionally up for the function of Brooke Armstrong.

“It was Hilary Swank, myself and a lady named Meredith,” Davis says of the ultimate auditions for Aaron Spelling‘s collection. “It was us three who examined for Brooke, and I believe they should have learn like 500 ladies.”

Davis recollects feeling “so stressed” about what she would put on to her audition with Spelling. When she arrived, the TV producer’s “large” workplace was furnished with a “curvy lengthy sofa,” “a bunch of fish tanks” and a “shag rug.” She added that the room consisted off 10 executives, all lined up in a row, together with Intercourse and the Metropolis producer, Darren Star, who was “the one one” who was actually her.

On the time, Melrose Place‘s main girl, Heather Locklear, had gotten married to Richie Sambora in a “lace, halter robe,” so Davis purchased a bustier harking back to the marriage costume in an effort to showcase an identical sense of sexuality.

“I had this entire plan that I used to be going to strip my jacket off within the scene,” she laughs. “I did it, and clearly it labored out. However I imply, I used to be simply riddled with nervousness, okay?”

Davis additionally recollects feeling self aware about her “very, very lengthy hair” and debated reducing it as not one of the ladies on the present had lengthy locks. Finally, she talked herself out of adjusting her look.

“I bear in mind getting into, and it was simply the three of us, and everybody was very good,” she says. “It wasn’t a kind of like scary room, and you then go in one after the other. And I bear in mind Hilary got here out, and she or he appeared so younger, and she or he had sort of shorter hair and sort of sporty, and I used to be like, ‘Uh-oh.’ After which Meredith had longer hair additionally. I used to be like, ‘Oh, good.'”

When Swank completed her audition, Davis says the actress was dejected and claimed, “I completely blew it,” regardless of their greatest efforts to consolation her.

“Clearly she goes on to win two Oscars,” Davis laughs. “She did wonderful. She did wonderful.”

Although she had the chance to audition, the actress says her agent on the time did not assume she would get the job due to her look.

“I had a very good discuss along with her manner again, the place she stated to me, ‘Kristin, you recognize, I really want to apologize as a result of I used to be your agent after they had been beginning to solid Brooke, and I did not submit you for it, as a result of I did not assume you had been sizzling sufficient,'” she recollects.

Whereas the honesty was stunning to listen to, Davis says she appreciated her candor and her effort to make amends.

“Clearly she was fallacious, however I wasn’t just like the look,” she continues, admitting that she may see the place her former agent was coming from. “I wasn’t the new look of the ’90s. I had hips, I had curves. You had been alleged to be straight within the ’90s with some boobs.”

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“Now, I used to be solely barely conscious of that due to my 12 auditions a day. It will be me and a bunch of like model-looking ladies,” she explains. “And typically I would get the half, as a result of I may converse, they usually perhaps could not converse so properly.”

Lately, Davis is opening up like by no means earlier than along with her new iHeartRadio podcast Are You a Charlotte?, the place she revisits SATC episode by episode.

“It was scary,” she stated of a dating-nightmare in a single episode. “I’m normally very cautious and don’t speak about my personal life, however right here I’m on this state of affairs the place I’ve began a podcast concerning the themes of our present.”