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Kristin Davis is opening up about an uncomfortable moment on the set of Sex and the City.
On the July 28 episode of her podcast Are You a Charlotte?, Davis, 60, revisited the hit HBO show’s season 2 episode “The Chicken Dance”, which aired in 1999. The episode sees Miranda Hobbes’ friend Jeremy Fields (Stephen Barker Turner) visiting from London and quickly falling in love with her interior designer (Carrie Preston), with the show’s central circle of friends later attending the surprising new couple’s wedding.
While filming scenes for the wedding, Davis said that the episode’s director, Victoria Hochberg, was “yelling” at her scene partner to “grab her ass.”
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In the episode, Davis’ character, Charlotte York, meets a man called Martin Healy (Mike Dooly) at the wedding and instantly pictures a future with him. At one point, he asks her if she wants to meet his parents, to which Charlotte happily obliges.
She ends up dancing with his father, who was played by the scene partner, with the scene being the final one shot that day.
“When I look out towards the camera, all I can see is a row of crew members sleeping on the bottom of this, like, you know, you’d have like a half wall that would go around a dance floor,” Davis recounted of the behind-the-scenes moment. “It’s like a half wall, and so the camera can’t see them obviously, but they’ve just passed out. So there’s just a row of sad crew members sleeping on the floor that I’m just like, ‘God bless them, God bless them.’ ”
She continued, “First of all, everyone’s delirious. My point of view is that No. 1, I have to dance with this older man who is going to feel my butt, which I’m mortified about. Okay. No. 2, everyone is beyond exhausted.”
Davis said that the director was, “Just yelling at this man. She’s far away across the room, and I feel like she might have had a bullhorn. She’s like, ‘Hard, harder, bigger, grab her ass, grab her ass,’ and I’m just like, ‘God, the humiliation factor is so high’, and there’s like close-up of him grabbing my butt.”
PEOPLE has reached to Hochberg for comment.
As a result of the moment after a long day, Davis recounted being “mad.”
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“And you can see when I tell the dude [who played Martin] … that’s my real mad face … if you watch the show and the movies, you know my real mad face. I am mad because I’m mad that I had to do it. You know, I’m mad that this man grabbed my butt. It’s like mortifying, you know.”
The actress concluded, “I remember thinking, like, ‘Man, we’ve got a crazy show, a crazy show, up all night long for 24 hours, trying to make this craziness.’ ”
Sex and the City aired from 1998 to 2004. The series’ first film, Sex and the City: The Movie, was released in 2008, followed by a sequel in 2010 and an official revival of the series, And Just Like That…, which premiered in 2021.
New episodes of Are You A Charlotte?, an iHeart Radio podcast, are released weekly.
