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Sarah Wynter in “Sex and the City” and Christopher Lawford in 2013
The first couple to do so Sex and the city almost included a real Kennedy cousin, according to Sarah Wynter.
The Australian actress joined Kristin Davis on the latest episode of her new podcast Are you a Charlotte to discuss her appearance in the 1998 pilot episode of the beloved HBO series as English journalist Elizabeth.
Fans of the series may remember that the series opens with Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw telling the story of Wynter’s character’s disastrous affair with an investment banker (Scott Bryce) who essentially ghosts her after several months of attendance. As Wynter noted, his character was “the first person to have sex on Sex and the city”, in a tastefully cut scene with Bryce at the beginning of the pilot.
But according to Wynter, Bryce wasn’t the actor she expected to play this scene with.
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Sarah Wynter and Scott Bryce in “Sex and the City”
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“I remember the person they cast to play the boyfriend wasn’t the one who ended up getting the job on set,” she told Davis. “So, I was surprised when I arrived on set. They chose Christopher Lawford, who was John Kennedy Jr.’s cousin.”
Lawford, who died of a heart attack at age 63 in 2018, was actually the son of English actor Peter Lawford and President John F. Kennedy’s sister, Pat Kennedy Lawford.
“He was reading. And I remember thinking, “This is perfect.” Have this Kennedy – not Kennedy-esque, Kennedy” Wynter continued.
Neither Wynter nor Davis remembered why Lawford, who played Charlie Brent in All my children from 1992 to 1996 and later wrote several books about his struggles with addiction, but ultimately did not appear in the episode.
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Scott Byce and Sarah Wynter in “Sex and the City”
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Davis, meanwhile, recalled how nervous the entire cast was about the show’s sexual content while filming the pilot. An incident on the day Wynter was filming her sex scene, she said, failed to calm her nerves.
“The day you had to do that nude scene, I was in the hair and makeup trailer getting ready,” Davis said. “One of the makeup artists came running in and said, ‘We need cups of ice cream for Sarah Wynter’s nipples!’ »
“We asked ourselves, ‘What’s going on?’ “Added Davis.
“I was trying to be so cool and calm and collected,” Wynter recalls. “But they needed ice.”
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Sarah Wynter in June 2024
Wynter also confirmed that she was in fact a Charlotte. Which is logical: the English journalist’s story is taken almost word for word from one of the Sex and the city author Candace Bushnell’s first columns for the New York Observerand the character is later revealed to be called “Charlotte”. The character of Davis, for his part, was more of an amalgam of several other characters who appeared in Bushnell’s columns.
While Wynter’s character only appeared in the opening moments of the pilot, she and Davis both said they would like to know what happened to her.
“Maybe she won a Pulitzer or something. I don’t know. She was a journalist,” Wynter speculated. “Maybe she’ll do a cover story on Carrie.”
“I feel like my character had all of his triumphs, you know, off camera,” Wynter added. “She found love. She found a great guy.
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