Kristin Davis Reveals Which Kennedy Family Member Was Supposed to Be in Sex and the City's First-Ever Sex Scene

The first couple ever to get it on in Sex and the City almost included an actual Kennedy cousin, according to Sarah Wynter.

The Australian actress joined Kristin Davis on the latest episode of her new podcast Are You a Charlotte to discuss her appearance in the beloved HBO show’s 1998 pilot episode as English journalist Elizabeth.

Fans of the show may recall that the series opens with Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw narrating the story of Wynter’s character’s disastrous affair with an investment banker (Scott Bryce) who essentially ghosts her after several months of dating. As Wynter noted, her character was “the first person to have sex on Sex and the City,” in a tastefully silhouetted scene with Bryce early in the pilot.

But according to Wynter, Bryce wasn’t the actor she expected to play the scene with.

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“I remember the person that they had cast to play the boyfriend was not the person that wound up getting the job on set,” she told Davis. “So, I was surprised when I got on set. They had cast Christopher Lawford, who was John Kennedy Jr.’s cousin.”

Lawford, who died of a heart attack at the age of 63 in 2018, was in fact the son of English actor Peter Lawford and President John F. Kennedy’s sister, Pat Kennedy Lawford.

“He was at the read-through. And I remember thinking ‘That’s perfect.’ To have, like, this Kennedy — not Kennedy-esque, Kennedy,” Wynter continued.

Neither Wynter nor Davis could recall why Lawford, who played Charlie Brent on All My Children from 1992–1996 and went on to write several books about his struggles with addiction, ultimately didn’t appear in the episode.

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Davis, meanwhile, recalled how nervous the entire cast was about the show’s sexual content while filming the pilot. An incident on the day when Wynter was shooting her sex scene, she said, did little to calm her nerves.

“The day that you had to do that nude scene, I was in the hair and makeup trailer getting ready,” Davis said. “One of the makeup artists came running in, like, ‘We need cups of ice for Sarah Wynter’s nipples!’ ”

“We were like, ‘What is going on?’ ” Davis added.

“I was trying to be so cool and calm and collected,” Wynter recalled. “But they needed ice.”

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Wynter also confirmed that she is, in fact, a Charlotte. Which makes sense: the English journalist’s story was taken almost word-for-word from one of Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s earliest columns for the New York Observer, and the character is later revealed to be named “Charlotte.” Davis’ character, meanwhile, was more an amalgamation of several other characters who appeared in Bushnell’s columns.

While Wynter’s character only appeared in the opening moments of the pilot, she and Davis both said they would love to know what happened to her.

“Maybe she won a Pulitzer or something. I don't know. She was a journalist,” Wynter speculated. “Maybe she does a cover story on Carrie.”

“I feel like my character had all her, you know, triumphs off camera,” Wynter added. “She found love. She found a great guy.”

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