One Last Thing with Carrie Preston: TheElsbethStar Reveals the Last Text That Made Her Laugh from FormerClawsCostars (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Carrie Preston.Photo:Yuri Hasegawa/Redux

Yuri Hasegawa/Redux

Carrie Prestonand the cast ofClawsare a tight knit bunch!While chatting with PEOPLE in this week’s issue, the actress,57, revealed that she and her former castmates still keep in touch with a fun group chat.“I have a text thread that goes pretty much every day,” Preston says in this week’s issue about the last time she laughed. “We’re always posting silly things.“One message that really made the group crack up? “Yesterday it was something called ‘13 Seasons of New York’ about the weather here,” she says about one post shared in the chat.“It made me giggle,” she says. “It goes like, winter, then full spring, then second winter, then spring of deception, then third winter, then pothole, then actual spring, then the pollening, then summer, then hell’s front porch, then fool’s fall, then second summer and then actual fall.'“Preston, who stars in CBS’Elsbethas the titular character chatted more with the magazine for One Last Thing:Carrie Preston in ‘Elsbeth’.Michael Parmelee/CBSLast time I dancedI do funny dances for my husband [actorMichael Emerson] pretty much every day. It makes him laugh, it delights him. No matter what’s playing on the radio, I always try to come up with some clever interpretive dance to go with the song. He is always incredibly enchanted with how well I’m able to capture a song — given that I am not a formal dancer in any way, shape or form.I do it purely for his entertainment. Nothing makes me happier than watching him giggle at something that I’m doing that’s absolutely and ridiculously silly.Last date nightWe’ll do a museum date [and] we’ll go to MoMA or the Whitney or The Morgan Library. We’ll go to smaller museums and just have a great afternoon together looking at art and [we] usually get a lunch after that.(L) Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson.Arturo Holmes/GettyLast guilty pleasureThis past weekend, my family and I made homemade ice cream with Levain Bakery’s, chocolate chip cookies. That was pretty decadent and I definitely indulged myself in that treat. I’m a sucker for a really good chocolate chip cookie [and] there’s always a line.If you put homemade ice cream on top of them, it is truly sinfully delicious. They’re so rich that you can’t really do it all the time, but when you do, you savor every bite.Last perfect day offI had a four-day weekend and we spent it in Cold Spring, New York with the family. We went to Dia Beacon, which is a wonderful museum up there. We grilled, we went swimming, we took a hike — all of those things are some of my favorite activities. So to be able to do it all in one weekend was pretty much heaven.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Elsbethairs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS.

Carrie Prestonand the cast ofClawsare a tight knit bunch!

While chatting with PEOPLE in this week’s issue, the actress,57, revealed that she and her former castmates still keep in touch with a fun group chat.

“I have a text thread that goes pretty much every day,” Preston says in this week’s issue about the last time she laughed. “We’re always posting silly things.”

One message that really made the group crack up? “Yesterday it was something called ‘13 Seasons of New York’ about the weather here,” she says about one post shared in the chat.

“It made me giggle,” she says. “It goes like, winter, then full spring, then second winter, then spring of deception, then third winter, then pothole, then actual spring, then the pollening, then summer, then hell’s front porch, then fool’s fall, then second summer and then actual fall.'”

Preston, who stars in CBS’Elsbethas the titular character chatted more with the magazine for One Last Thing:

Carrie Preston in ‘Elsbeth’.Michael Parmelee/CBS

Michael Parmelee/CBS

Last time I danced

I do funny dances for my husband [actorMichael Emerson] pretty much every day. It makes him laugh, it delights him. No matter what’s playing on the radio, I always try to come up with some clever interpretive dance to go with the song. He is always incredibly enchanted with how well I’m able to capture a song — given that I am not a formal dancer in any way, shape or form.

I do it purely for his entertainment. Nothing makes me happier than watching him giggle at something that I’m doing that’s absolutely and ridiculously silly.

Last date night

We’ll do a museum date [and] we’ll go to MoMA or the Whitney or The Morgan Library. We’ll go to smaller museums and just have a great afternoon together looking at art and [we] usually get a lunch after that.

(L) Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson.Arturo Holmes/Getty

Arturo Holmes/Getty

Last guilty pleasure

This past weekend, my family and I made homemade ice cream with Levain Bakery’s, chocolate chip cookies. That was pretty decadent and I definitely indulged myself in that treat. I’m a sucker for a really good chocolate chip cookie [and] there’s always a line.

If you put homemade ice cream on top of them, it is truly sinfully delicious. They’re so rich that you can’t really do it all the time, but when you do, you savor every bite.

Last perfect day off

I had a four-day weekend and we spent it in Cold Spring, New York with the family. We went to Dia Beacon, which is a wonderful museum up there. We grilled, we went swimming, we took a hike — all of those things are some of my favorite activities. So to be able to do it all in one weekend was pretty much heaven.

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