Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte York, shared candid stories about difficult scenes from “Sex and the City.” Speaking on her rewatch podcast “Are You a Charlotte?,” Davis explained why a late-night intimate scene and a mortifying storyline were tough to film. She also discussed how guest actors often felt awkward during sex scenes.
Davis pointed to a specific scene in Season 2, Episode 5, “Four Women and a Funeral.” In this episode, Charlotte meets a man named Ned, played by Kurt Deutsch, at a cemetery who says he is grieving his wife. They have an intimate encounter, but Ned is later revealed to be faking his grief.
Davis clarified that her issue was not with Deutsch but with the filming conditions. “I just didn’t love that one sex scene,” Davis said. “And I think I had to come in at, like, 11 p.m. to film it also. So I was cranky about that.“. She described how the production schedule often required actors to film late at night after other scenes were done, which was disruptive.
Davis explained that filming such scenes was often awkward because of the unusual dynamic for the male guest actors. She noted that in the show’s early days, these actors had small, specific parts that primarily involved being in bed with a main character.
“A guy would just show up on set, and you’re just in bed with them,” Davis recalled. “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.”
She said she tried her best to make the situation comfortable for everyone but admitted it did not always go smoothly.
In the same podcast episode, Davis answered a question about whether a co-star ever ate too many mints before a love scene. Her response revealed another uncomfortable memory.
“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.’… I never liked the storyline, and then everyone liked it but me. It was just one of those awkward things.”
She did not name the actor involved but emphasized that her dislike for the scene’s storyline made the awkward moment even more memorable.
Davis also discussed a different kind of difficult scene from Season 2, Episode 8, “The Chicken Dance.” In this episode, Charlotte has a brief relationship with a wedding’s best man. During the wedding, she dances with the best man’s father, who then grabs her without her consent.
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Davis said the filming of this moment was “mortifying.” She explained that the director instructed the actor playing the father to “grab her a** harder,” which increased her discomfort.
“I’m mad that I had to do it. I’m mad that this man had to grab my butt. It’s, like, mortifying, you know?” Davis said on her podcast. She noted that her angry reaction in the scene was very real.
This is not the only “Sex and the City” plotline Davis has spoken against. In a March 2025 episode of her podcast, she talked about hating a season six storyline where Charlotte and her husband Harry get severe food poisoning after a romantic cheese tasting.
“I just hated that storyline so much,” Davis said. “I didn’t want to lay on the floor of the bathroom with Evan in stained T-shirts. Ick.”
She revealed that she went to the episode’s writers, Elisa Zuritsky and Julia Rottenberg, to ask if they could cut the scene. They insisted it was funny because it was based on a real story about someone getting sick from rich French cheeses.
All these stories come from Davis’s podcast, “Are You a Charlotte?” which she started in 2025. On the podcast, Davis rewatches episodes of the classic HBO series and shares behind-the-scenes details and secrets she has never discussed before. The podcast has featured guests like co-star Cynthia Nixon, actress Sarah Wynter, and series director Michael Patrick King.
In a recent episode with guest Molly Price, Davis also explained how the show’s writers, including King and creator Darren Star, would sometimes use criticism of the show in the script. For example, a line where Miranda complains that the friends only talk about men was a direct response to early reviews.
Fans can watch all seasons of “Sex and the City,” which originally aired from 1998 to 2004, and its sequel series “And Just Like That…” on the streaming platform Max.
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