Sarah Jessica Parker was “too shy” to film nude scenes in “Sex and the City” and its reboot series, “And Just Like That.”
The actress clarified in a Thursday interview with Howard Stern that her choice wasn’t “a morality thing.”
Instead, the Golden Globe winner, 58, called herself too “shy,” explaining, “I think I just never felt comfortable exposing myself that way.
“I never had any judgements about anybody else doing it,” Parker continued on SiriusXM’s “Howard Stern Show,” referencing co-stars Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis.
The “Divorce” alum noted that she was initially hesitant about joining the HBO show’s cast as leading woman Carrie Bradshaw because of the potential for stripped-down scenes.
“The only thing … I was concerned about was that I just didn’t feel comfortable doing nudity,” she recalled. “I suspected that if it wasn’t in the pilot, it would be a part of a series.”
When the Emmy winner expressed her reluctance, show creator Darren Star advised her not to “do it” if she didn’t want to.
“He said … ‘We’ll have other actors. If they feel comfortable doing it, they’ll do it, but you do not have to,'” Parker told listeners.
Cattrall, Nixon and Davis all filmed naked while playing Samantha Jones, Miranda Hobbes and Charlotte York, respectively.
Nixon called herself “fairly game” from the start in an Entertainment Tonight interview earlier this month.
“One of the main subjects of the show is sex,” Nixon explained. “People having sex and people having great sex and people having terrible sex and people having hilarious sex.”
As for Cattrall, the “How I Met Your Father” star joked to PvNew in May 2022 that she “filled her quota” of onscreen nudity onscreen and is “just not interested” anymore.
Davis, for her part, admitted in 2008 that she felt “panicky” about some “extremely stressful” scenes in the buff (per Daily Mail.)
“Sex and the City” aired for six seasons from 1998 to 2004, followed by two movies. “And Just Like That” premiered last year, with Season 2 starting on June 22.
Although Cattrall, 66, declined to sign onto the reboot, reports surfaced in May that she will make a brief appearance. Nixon told “Watch What Happens Live” viewers on Thursday how “very sorry” she is about the news breaking early.
She called the cameo a “special treat,” saying there’s only a “small” chance Cattrall will ever come back “in a larger role.”
