Kristin Davis says she was GROPED by an older man during filming of Sex And The City

Daily Mail​

3 days ago

Kristin Davis said she was groped while filming Sex and the City.
The actress recalled the 'humiliating' experience she went through at the time while re-watching the scene.
The 60-year-old actress said that while filming season two she got 'mad' when her scene partner 'grabbed her a**.'
On Monday's episode of her podcast, Are You a Charlotte?, she recalled how she was filming a wedding scene when the episode's director instructed her scene partner to grope her.
'I'm just like, "God, the humiliation factor is so high," and there's like a close-up of him grabbing my butt,' she said about the uncomfortable experience.
She explained that the scene was from the hit TV show's season two episode titled The Chicken Dance, which aired in 1999.
This comes after she admitted that there was one particular storyline she 'hated' in the HBO series that she tried to get out of filming.
The 60-year-old actress said that while filming season two she got 'mad' when her scene partner 'grabbed her a**'
In the aforementioned episode, Miranda Hobbes' friend Jeremy Fields (Stephen Barker Turner) visits from London and falls in love with her interior designer (Carrie Preston).
The four friends are later seen attending the couple's wedding after their whirlwind romance.
Davis' character Charlotte York meets a man named Martin Healy (Mike Dooly) at the wedding and when he asks her to meet his parents.
She obliges, and then she ends up dancing with his father, who was played by her scene partner as they filmed the final scene of the day.
When they were filming, Davis said that the director of the episode, Victoria Hochberg, was 'yelling' at her scene partner to 'grab her a**.'
She recalled the moment before they called action and turned on the camera.
'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,' she said.
'It's like a half wall, and so the camera can't see them obviously, but they've just passed out,' she continued.
'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."
'First of all, everyone's delirious,' she added. 'My point of view is that number one, I have to dance with this older man who is going to feel my butt, which I'm mortified about. Okay. Number two, everyone is beyond exhausted.'
The actress said that the director was 'just yelling at this man.'
'She's far away across the room, and I feel like she might have had a bullhorn,' she explained. 'She's like, "Hard, harder, bigger, grab her a**, grab her a**," and I'm just like, "God, the humiliation factor is so high," and there's like close-up of him grabbing my butt.'
At the end of the day, she said she remembered being 'mad.'
'And you can see when I tell the dude [who played Martin],' she said.
'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.'
Davis added: '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."'
Sex and the City aired for six seasons from 1998 to 2004.
Davis starred alongside Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon as the show's central group of friends.
The series' first film, Sex and the City: The Movie, was released in 2008, followed by a sequel in 2010.
The show was revived in 2021 with the HBO series And Just Like That.