Chrissy Metz Admits ‘The Hunting Wives’ Sex Scenes Are ‘Kind of Jarring’: ‘I Knew What Was Coming’

Chrissy Metz might not take part in some of the sex scenes on The Hunting Wives, but she certainly finds them “kind of jarring.”

Metz, 44, made the admission during an appearance on the Monday, August 25, episode of the “Call It What It Is” podcast. She explained that reading a script and filming is one thing, but when you “see it all together,” the scenes can be difficult to take in.

“Because obviously I was not in all the wild scenes, at least not the sexual ones, but it was like, ‘Oh, it’s kind of jarring,’ and I knew what was coming,” she continued. “And some people are like, ‘I fast-forward through all this sex stuff, and you know, I like the other stuff,’ and I’m like, ‘Great, there’s something for everyone.’”

Metz plays Starr, a devout Christian and community outsider, on the popular Netflix series. The Hunting Wives, which is based on the novel by the same name, also stars Brittany Snow as Sophie, Malin Åkerman as Margo, and Evan Jonigkeit as Graham and debuted on the streamer on July 21.

The actress also confessed to reading the comments that viewers leave on social media. She noted that she and her costars are “beautiful women” who have “had great careers,” but that it’s “so interesting” that “so many people are offended [by the series].”

“They’re like, you know, ‘Why does it have to be so much sex?’” she added. Metz admitted she’s “interested” in what people have to say. “I never take anything to heart. Initially in my career, I certainly did. And now I’m like, I can’t attach to the good or the bad. It’s just, it’s their opinion, and I hope it’s good, and if it’s not, OK.”

In the same episode, Metz also said she believes the series could get a second season. “Listen, if there’s money around,” Metz continued. “But I don’t know. It’s also kind of one of those things like, do they want to do a second season? But I think people would be on the ride. I think people are like, ‘Oh yeah, what else?’”

Netflix has yet to issue a statement of any kind about a potential second season of the series.

Creator Rebecca Cutter has been open about her own ideas for how the series could expand beyond its first season. In a July 2025 interview with Variety, Cutter explained she thinks a second season would require “a little bit of a time jump — not a year, but a time.”

“By the end of shooting, I realized that the two engines of the show are the whodunit and the Margo/Sophie relationship, and tracking how those spines intersect with each other,” she added.

“The first thing I’m thinking about is, where are these two women at the start?” Cutter elaborated. “Where are they at the end? What are the peaks and valleys of their individual power, of their relationship? So it’s tracking a course for that, and then figuring out what the crime engine is.”