Kristin Davis “didn’t want to” flash her chest in a “Sex and the City” episode — but the showrunner pushed her to do so anyway.
“Michael Patrick [King] forced me to do it,” the actress recalled on Monday’s episode of her “Are You a Charlotte?” podcast. “He kept telling me, ‘It’ll be fine. It’ll be great.’”
The “And Just Like That” star, 60, admitted, “And it is. But we were in a restaurant. There were people everywhere.”
She called the scene from Season 5’s first episode a “mortifying” one to film, remembering “having a lot of stress about it.”
Davis, notably, laughed off King’s pressure and said, “It’s OK. He knows.”
While chatting with one of the HBO show’s writers Jenny Bicks, the Emmy nominee also explained why another moment in Season 6 — her first completely sans clothes — was “challenging” to film.
“It was a very, very integral part of the storyline,” Davis explained of her character, Charlotte York, converting to Judaism and stepping into a mikveh bath. “Because it wasn’t sexual, it’s much easier to have some nudity in a non-sexual way in a spiritual way.”
However, she described “the director and the [director of photography] and the ‘video village’ set up — because the [assistant director] let it happen — where [she] had to walk, and they were smoking cigars.”
Davis confronted the AD, saying, “I was like, ‘Uh, I’m trying to do something here without feeling self-conscious. Could you possibly move all those guys?’ It’s crazy back then what went on.”
She pointed out, “Even in a situation where you theoretically did have so much power, all that stuff was still able to happen and you had to be the bad guy and be like, ‘They can’t smoke cigars literally in my eye line.’”
However, the Golden Globe nominee called the scene “gorgeous, romantic perfection” and is “so happy” she did it.
Davis quipped, “I was so stressed … [but] I should have just been running through town with my shirt off.”
Her comments come one month after she made headlines for telling People she did not feel “protected” filming certain scenes of the hit show.
In the February interview, she said, “I [once] had to hide in my dressing room. … I had to hide in my dressing room and call my manager in LA at 2 in the morning.”
Davis similarly divulged on Monday that she experienced “awkward times early on with directors when everyone would have gone home … and some director would want [her] to do something.”
On earlier episodes of the show, Davis has dished on getting ghosted by a successful actor after loaning him money, breaking up with Alec Baldwin and more.
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