And similar to that … a Kennedy was virtually on “Sex and the City.”
Kristin Davis has revealed {that a} member of the Kennedy household was initially solid for the present’s first-ever intercourse scene. The actress made the revelation alongside “SATC” visitor star Sarah Wynter on the newest episode of her “Are You a Charlotte?” podcast.
As viewers could recall, the collection opens with a British journalist named Elizabeth (performed by Wynter, 51) who has an affair with an funding banker — solely to be ghosted by him in a while.
Scott Bryce performed the funding banker within the pilot episode — however in response to Wynter, the position initially went to John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Christopher Lawford.
“I remember the person that they had cast to play the boyfriend was not the person that wound up getting the job on set,” Wynter mentioned to Davis, 59, on the podcast.
“So, I was surprised when I got on set,” she added.
Lawford was the son of British actor Peter Lawford and JFK’s sister, Patricia Kennedy. He died of a coronary heart assault in 2018 at age 63.
“He was at the read-through,” Wynter recalled about assembly Lawford on the set of the present. “And I remember thinking ‘That’s perfect.’ To have, like, this Kennedy — not Kennedy-esque, Kennedy.”
Nonetheless, Lawford was finally changed by Bryce, 67, for the intercourse scene with Wynter.
And to today, she and Davis nonetheless don’t know why.
“What happened? I want to know,” mentioned Wynter. “Did he become unavailable? Did something happen? None of us knew.”
When “SATC” premiered in 1998, Lawford had already been in a number of movies like “Spellbinder,” “The Russia House,” and “Jack the Bear” and TV exhibits akin to “Tales from the Crypt” and “All My Children.”
He went on to look in episodes of “Chicago Hope,” Frasier” and “The O.C.” earlier than his dying.
Lawford wrote a ebook about his battle with drug dependancy. He mentioned he began experimenting with medication whereas away at boarding faculty as an adolescent within the Sixties, not lengthy after JFK’s assassination.
After Lawford’s dying in 2018, his cousin Maria Shriver paid respects to him in a heartfelt Instagram publish.
“This handsome, loving, fun man is my cousin Christopher Lawford. He passed away suddenly yesterday,” she wrote. “He was my age, full of love and very much alive.”
“He lived a big life and he cared deeply about life. He fought for his and in turn he fought to help so many people dealing with addiction issues,” she went on. “He was really at the forefront of the recovery movement.”
“Sex and the City” has been widespread for over 25 years, a lot in order that the the proprietor of the Manhattan brownstone the place Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) “lived” lately requested the town to put in a gate to maintain followers out.
Many have ignored the “No Trespassing-Private Property” signal on the entrance of the steps at 66 Perry St. within the West Village to allow them to get photos for social media.
“My home is now a global tourist destination,” the proprietor mentioned in an utility to the town’s Landmark Preservation Committee. “At any given hour of the day or night, there are groups of visitors in front of the house taking flash photos, engaging in loud chatter, posting on social media, making TikTok videos, or just celebrating the moment.”
The proprietor is asking for a 3.25-foot excessive double-gate fabricated from metal and forged iron gate to be put in in entrance of the stoop.
