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Kristin Davis recalled rushing home to watch rough VHS cuts of Sex and the City episodes during filming
In a recent podcast, Davis said all of the cast members “had a different take” on the show
Davis said she would “run home” to watch the show
Kristin Davis is recalling the early days of filming — and watching — Sex and the City.
“They would give us a VHS,” the 61-year-old actress recounted in a new episode of the Dinner’s On Mepodcast with Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
She continued: “And we would run home — I would run home at least — I can’t speak for everyone. We all had a different take on it. Maybe we got DVDs eventually. I only really remember the VHS, though. And I would run home and put it in the thing.”
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Sex and the City cast
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“And it was rough, you know, at that point,” Davis continued. “Still a rough a rough copy, right? So sometimes it would have like a placeholder. It wouldn’t have a special effect. It wouldn’t have music, right? But, you know, was so curious to see what had worked, what had made it in, you know, all of the things.”
Sex and the City debuted on HBO in 1998, starring Davis, Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon. The show spawned two films and a sequel series, And Just Like That…, which premiered on Dec. 9, 2021, on Max and ended Aug. 14, 2025.
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In a 2025 PEOPLE cover story, Davis spoke about the early days of filming, admitting she didn’t feel comfortable right away and sharing what it was like to simulate sex without the protection of intimacy coordinators when the hit show premiered in 1998.
As Sex and the City was a show targeted toward women, Davis initially thought they would feel “uncomfortable” watching the amount of sex on screen.
“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,” she said of filming the scenes. “A female gaze — they don’t wanna see that.”
The actress also confessed that she was “scared” of portraying sex on television and “did not feel protected” in the early days of the show.
“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,” she said.
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