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Kristin Davisknows how to film a sex scene.
After all, asSex and the City's Charlotte for all six seasons of the HBO show's run from 1998 to 2004 — plus a couple movies and the sequel seriesAnd Just Like That— she had them down.
And a few of those intimate scenes stood out — not for good reasons — as Davis said on a recent episode of herAre You a Charlotte?podcast, on which she rewatches the HBO series she costarred on with Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kim Cattrall.
She left the details of one mysterious, after she was asked whether anyone had ever eaten too many mints before filming a racy scene.
"I don't remember if this guy OD'd on mints," Davis began, "because all I remember was just really being like, 'Get me out of here, please.' And I'm sorry. It's not really professional that I'm saying that, but it is the truth at the time. Especially, and I still remember it, because I never liked the storyline, and then everyone liked it but me. It was just one of those awkward things."
She then switched her focus to an unfortunate experience that shewaswilling to discuss: the filming of the second season episode "Four Women and a Funeral," in which Charlotte falls for a man that she met at a cemetery, where the women attended a designer's funeral. He says he's there mourning his dead wife.
"I remember another guy early on in the show, because it was very much a role reversal that the guys would kind of come through as the girlfriend-type parts. A guy would just show up on set, and you're just in bed with them," Davis said. "That's not a normal guy part. So they would be just a little thrown off. Like, 'How do I do this?' And we would have to try to make it okay and whatever. And I would do my best. And then sometimes I just didn't do that well, and this would be one of them."
Actor Kurt Deutsch played widower Ned, who, it turns out, after Charlotte couples up with him, was feigning his grief.
"It wasn't Kurt, that actor. I was not upset with Kurt," Davis clarified. "I just didn't love that one sex scene. And I think I had to come in at, like, 11 p.m. to film it also. So I was cranky about that."
She went on to explain that the moment was one that was "moveable," which happened regularly for her.
"You think you have the day off, and then you don't have the day off, because they're moving your scene around," Davis said. "It's like the end-of-the-day thing where they might have filmed a whole other day. Let's say they'll film with Sarah all day, and then they have got to do her turnaround, right, for her hours. So they'll send her home, and they'll bring someone else in to film, say, the sex scene with Kurt, because it's just one scene and you maybe don't have to work in the morning. So it's like pieces and puzzles that they're moving around, but it doesn't necessarily make it easy on the other actor who has to come in at 11 p.m. or whatever to shoot a sex scene."
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Davis explained that, whenever she was needed on set, she went."They own you. And also, in our world, you really have to think about the group," Davis said. "You are part of a group, and the group is important, and the production is important. And you have to be a team player, or that's not great."
As fans of the franchise know, Charlotte eventually found lasting love not with someone she met at a funeral or other social event, but whom she met through her divorce. It was her lawyer, Harry Goldenblatt, played by Evan Handler.
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