Kristin Davis is looking back on a very embarrassing moment that happened while filming Sex and the City.
In the July 28 episode of her podcast, “Are You a Charlotte?” Davis, 60, looks back on filming the seventh episode in the show’s second season, “The Chicken Dance.”
While recalling a dance scene at a wedding, Davis revealed that the episode’s director, Victoria Hochberg, spent a good chunk of the scene “yelling” at her scene partner to “grab her ass.”
In the episode in question, Davis’ character, Charlotte York, has a warp-speed relationship with Martin, a man she meets at a wedding. At one point, he asks if she wants to meet his parents, to which Charlotte responds in the affirmative.
She ends up dancing with his father, who was played by the scene partner.
“So then the final scene that was filmed of this whole wedding sequence was me dancing with the dad at the wedding,” Davis said.
“First of all, everyone’s delirious,” she continued. “My point of view [at the time] is that No. 1, I have to dance with this older man who is going to feel my butt, which I’m mortified about. OK. No. 2, everyone is beyond exhausted.”
The scene was the “final thing” that had to be shot, she added. “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. 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.’”
Everyone else was “delirious” from shooting for so long, Davis continued. And then Hochberg “is just yelling at this man,” she said. “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.”
As a result, Davis explained she was “mad” when the scene was finally complete. “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 also 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.’”
