Yahoo Lifestyle Kristin Davis Says ‘Sex & The City’ Cast Was “Scared” To Go Nude On Show: “Would We Be Shunned?”
More than 20 years after Sex and the City ended its initial six-season run, Hollywood has gotten a lot sexier.
Kristin Davis recently explained that she and her co-stars on the hit HBO show were “scared” to go nude onscreen while making the series from 1998 to 2004, worried they “would be shunned” from the industry.
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“Look at how people present themselves now,” she said on a recent episode of her iHeartRadio podcast Are You a Charlotte? “It’s totally normal to have almost everyone on a red carpet in a sheer dress where, potentially, their nipples are showing. Like, this never would have happened back in the olden days.”
Davis continued, “We were scared about showing our nipples on the show. We were like, ‘Oh my god. They want us to show our nipples.’ We were so worried about it. Right? Like, would we be shunned? Would we be, you know, cast out … by the film world or whatever, which is kind of insane to think about.”
After starring in the show and two movies with Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall, Davis is reprising her role as Charlotte once again for the upcoming third season of Max‘s revival And Just Like That, which is expected to hit the streaming platform in 2025.
In 2023, Parker explained why she never went nude while starring as Carrie Bradshaw on the series, revealing her condition before signing onto creator Darren Star‘s show. “I shared him with that my only concern — I thought the script was really interesting, and really exciting, and different, and fresh, and I’d never seen anything like that,” she said on The Howard Stern Show.
“And the only thing I said to him that I was concerned about was that I just didn’t feel comfortable doing nudity,” added Parker. “And I suspected that if it wasn’t in the pilot, it would be part of a series, that it felt like it was legitimately going to be talked about. And he said, ‘Don’t do it, then. I don’t care. Don’t do nudity.’ He said, ‘We’ll have other actors. If they feel comfortable doing it, they’ll do it but you do not have to.'”
Noting that she “was just shy” and “never had any judgments” about actors who do go nude, Parker continued, “I just never felt comfortable being nude. I didn’t think it would change perception of me or kind of create opportunities that I might not be interested. I was shy.”
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