The sexual story lines on Sex and the City seemed fairly ridiculous at times and yet, also, relatable. Thatâs probably because they actually happened to someone in real life, according to Cynthia Nixon, aka Miranda, who once screwed a guy who enjoyed dirty talk and an occasional finger in his ass.
Nixon told IMDB Asks (in an interview with the great RETTA!) that the SATC writers had an explicit rule requiring that storylines be plucked from real life (something writers for the show have talked about more vaguely before).
Asked why fans are still obsessed with the series, Nixon credits the writers and says:
âEven though crazy and outlandish things happened in Sex and the Cityâfantastical things seeminglyâthey had a rule in the writerâs room that they couldnât put anything in an episode that hadnât literally happened to someone in the writersâ room or someone that they knew firsthand. It couldnât be, like, my fatherâs brotherâs sisterâs shoe repair guy heard onceâso the outlandish physical, sexual things that happened, they really happened. Theyâre not just tall tales.â
âLiterally,â she says. Maybe this fun fact was revealed in an interview before, but letâs recap some of the freaky sex plots from SATC that all happened to someone:
Cynthia sleeps with a Catholic dude who showers after sex.
Samantha bones a guy who videotapes all his sexual experiences.
Charlotte dates an oral sex maestro named âMr. Pussy.â
Carrie and Berger have terrible sex.
Miranda has a terrible hangover after fucking a hot detective, who leaves her a post-it with a number for AA.
Charlotteâs dude falls asleep mid-sex.
Samanthaâs sports-crazed partner likes to have sex when his team wins.
Charlotte sees a man with anger issues whoâs too medicated to perform.
Samantha has issues with a big-dicked dude.
Who among us hasnât done any of this?
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