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Kristin Davis Reveals Director-Ordered Groping on Early ‘Sex and the City’ Set

Her account highlights the emotional toll of boundary breaches on early ‘Sex and the City’ sets before the advent of intimacy coordinators.

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Overview

  • On July 28 on her podcast Are You a Charlotte?, Davis revisited Season 2’s “The Chicken Dance” wedding scene where she was directed to endure unwanted contact.
  • Davis said director Victoria Hochberg shouted commands like “grab her ass” to her scene partner, even using what felt like a bullhorn from across the studio.
  • The sequence was filmed after a 24-hour shoot that left many crew members passed out from exhaustion on the studio floor.
  • Davis described feeling mortified and showed her real “mad face” in the scene’s close-ups, reflecting genuine anger at the forced action.
  • Her recollection underscores that SATC lacked formal intimacy coordinators from 1998 to 2004 and adds to a broader industry reckoning over on-set safety.