Kristin Davis Shares ‘Strange, Cult-Type' Rules of Working on ‘Sex and the City'

Yahoo

02-04-2025

Kristin Davis revealed that the cast had to follow some odd protocols on the set of Sex and the City.
'I remember there were … strange, cult-type elements about being in that cast where there were like some rules,' Davis, 60, shared with Sex and the City writer Jenny Bicks on her 'Are You A Charlotte?' podcast on Monday, March 31.
The actress, who starred as Charlotte York in the original Sex and the City series from 1998 to 2004, revealed that they weren't allowed to wear scrunchies or banana clips — and the rules would 'come slowly' as they worked on the show.
'They weren't all in the beginning,' she noted. 'No hose unless they were fishnet. We went through a whole fishnet phase. If you could find double fishnets that was great. If you could find nude double fishnets even better.'
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Davis explained that there was also a 'heel-height situation' which took her 'a while to get on board with' working in such high heels.
'Part of the problem is you can blame your costar Sarah Jessica Parker because she could run in those things,' Bicks, 61, added. 'She made it look so easy.'
Davis agreed with Bicks, saying that they 'always had to live up to' Parker, 60, before going on to share other rules for the cast, which included always having to return borrowed clothes, only wearing Cosabella G-strings and having no 'functional' coats.
'We could go down the list of approved brands and not approved brands. There was a lot,' she noted.
Aside from the little rules they had on the set of Sex and the City, Davis recently got candid about what it was like filming intimate scenes without intimacy coordinators when the show first aired in 1998.
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'I did not feel protected,' Davis told People in February. 'I had to hide in my dressing room at the end of the scenario. I had to hide in my dressing room and call my manager in L.A., at 2 in the morning.'
Davis explained that the cast 'didn't exactly know' what they were doing when it came to sexuality at the beginning.
'I also feel like we didn't talk about it as a group in a way that would've been helping and would've happened now,' she shared with the outlet, adding that over time the sex scenes 'became much more our gaze as it should be' and about them 'being comfortable.'
Sex and the City, which starred York, Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon, followed the lives of four female friends living in New York City and explored themes such as sex, relationships, friendships and femininity.