Kristin Davis, one of the stars of Sex and the City who played Charlotte, has revealed she was ‘forced’ into a topless scene by the showrunner Michael Patrick King.
Davis was one of the four main stars of the show, and has opened up in an episode of her podcast Are You A Charlotte?
This sees the actor go through her various episodes of the show in which she played the hopeless romantic from a posh background.
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Appearing in the show throughout its run, Davis returned for the two subsequent films and the revival TV show And Just Like That...
The scene in which Davis claimed she was forced to go through took place in the first episode of season five in which Charlotte ‘flashes her boob’.
Speaking about the experience, Davis said she didn’t want to go through with it but that Michael Patrick King ‘forced her to’.
King went on to direct the two follow up films as well as directing ten episodes of the reboot series.
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The actor went on to say: “He kept telling me, ‘It’ll be fine. It’ll be great'.”
She stated that they were ‘in a restaurant’ and there were ‘people everywhere’.
Davis stated that she was ‘having a lot of stress about it’ but that she isn’t uspset, stating: “It’s OK. He knows.”
She went on to say: “I do think the other thing, and Michael [Patrick King] always talks about this a lot too, is that we always wanted the sex to be like, ‘oh we are shooting a soft porn’. The tone was important.”
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This is not the first time the actor has opened up about issues surrounding protection on the set of the show, opening up to People magazine earlier this year.
She stated that she felt ‘confused’ by the number of intimate scenes in the show, adding: “I don't know how the men would feel watching cause I'm not a man. But it would be more for the male gaze than for the female gaze.
“I did not feel protected, 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 two in the morning.”
Regarding sexuality in the early days of the show she stated the cast ‘didn’t know’ what they were doing.
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She said: “All of that was kind of vague. 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.
“Like, if there'd been intimacy coordinators and all that stuff.
“There would've been much more discussion now, but there wasn't then."
LADbible group have contacted representatives for Michael Patrick King for comment.
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