Kristin Davis didn’t feel protected with ‘SATC’ sex scenes
And just like that… Charlotte York was over it.
Kristin Davis didn’t feel comfortable filming intimate “Sex and the City” scenes early on in the series.
Davis, 59, recalled having to simulate sex without having the protection of intimacy coordinators in a new interview with People, which published Thursday.
Davis said she felt “confused” with the amount of sex scenes that were included and thought some of them weren’t needed.
“I did not feel protected,” she admitted. “I had to hide in my dressing room at the end of the scenario. I had to hide in my dressing room and call my manager in LA, at 2 in the morning.”
According to Davis, Kim Cattrall (played Samantha Jones) could “definitely protect herself,” while Sarah Jessica Parker (played Carrie Bradshaw) was the “most protected” — but felt “the most uncomfortable” about being nude on camera.
Cynthia Nixon, meanwhile, who played Miranda Hobbes, “doesn’t care about anything,” Davis said. “Like, I remember one thing she filmed with [David] Eigenberg, and I was like, ‘Why is he grabbing her breast like that? Why didn’t someone tell him to do it?’”
“I was like, ‘Tell him to do it more nicely.’ And she was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I was like, ‘Who was protecting you there?’ She’s like, ‘No one.’”
“Sex and the City” was a show for women, Davis noted — but she often would feel “uncomfortable” watching the sex scenes.
“I don’t know how the men would feel watching ’cause I’m not a man. But it would be more for the male gaze than for the female gaze,” she said. “A female gaze — they don’t wanna see that.”
As the series progressed, the sex scenes “became much more our gaze as it should be” and more about “us being comfortable.”
“Sex and the City” ran on HBO for six seasons from 1998 to 2004. It’s revival, “And Just Like That..,” returns this year for Season 3.
Prior to her “SATC” fame, Davis played Brooke Armstrong in “Melrose Place” in 1995.
“There was a general vibe on the set, though, that was difficult, about the thinness situation,” Davis told People. “Every single person was gorgeous and super skinny. So I was like, ‘This is what I have to do.’”
The “Are You a Charlotte?” podcast host hired a running coach and would do back-to-back 90-minute spin classes. “I was frustrated. I was trying to do the thing,” she went on.
Davis’s insecurities worsened when co-star Thomas Calabro informed her that producers were talking about her weight.
“He’s like, ‘Kristin, I’m so happy to see you here,’” she said, recalling Calabro joining her in the makeup trailer one day. “‘I just wanna tell you, you know, I think you look great.’”
“And I’m like, ‘Oh, thank you. What are you talking about? What do you mean?’” she continued. “He said, ‘Oh, I know that the producers are really stressed, you know, but I just think it’s amazing that we have a woman who has curves.’”
After a producer told her to “not gain any more weight,” Davis started to limit her food intake. And at one point, she fainted in the parking lot after feeling lightheaded.
“Of course, I’m sure I wasn’t eating, I have no idea. I don’t remember the eating part,” she said. “Sometimes I couldn’t remember my name. It was a lot.”
Back then, this behavior was “just normal” on set.
“You could look at it either way,” she told the outlet. “But I mean, there was a lot of stress. If you had hips, it was a situation.”
