{"id":257032,"date":"2026-08-12T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/rosie-odonnell-recalls-horrifying-sex-scene-with-cynthia-nixon-in-and-just-like-that\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:03:04","slug":"rosie-odonnell-recalls-horrifying-sex-scene-with-cynthia-nixon-in-and-just-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/rosie-odonnell-recalls-horrifying-sex-scene-with-cynthia-nixon-in-and-just-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell Recalls \u2018Horrifying\u2019 Sex Scene With Cynthia Nixon in \u2018And Just Like That\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/rosie-o-donnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/strong><\/a> wasn\u2019t banking on so much sex when she checked into the city for a cameo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/and-just-like-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>And Just Like That<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The actress and comedian, 64, appeared as a nun who ends up losing her virginity to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/cynthia-nixon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cynthia Nixon<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Miranda Hobbes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/and-just-like-that-season-3-premiere-recap-miranda-sleeps-with-a-nun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">season 3 premiere<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/sex-and-the-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sex and the City<\/em><\/a> spinoff. But according to O\u2019Donnell, filming an intimate postcoital moment in bed together was \u201chorrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so nervous!\u201d O\u2019Donnell shared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E5kQw31iynk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cGood Hang With Amy Poehler\u201d<\/a> podcast on Tuesday, August 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I love her. I love her and have so much respect for her,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said of Nixon. \u201cShe called me and she was like, \u2018Ro, Tufayel Ahmed <strong>Michael Patrick<\/strong> [<strong>King<\/strong>] wrote you a scene and it\u2019s with me. Will you do it?\u2019 I said, \u2018Of course I\u2019ll do it with you.\u2019 And then I read it and I\u2019m in bed with just the sheets and then I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, my God.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/cynthia-nixon-reveals-what-aged-poorly-in-sex-and-the-city\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/cynthia-nixon-reveals-what-aged-poorly-in-sex-and-the-city\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Cynthia Nixon Reveals What She Hated About &#8216;Sex and the City&#8217;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tCynthia Nixon says she cringed while rewatching Sex and the City. In an interview with Grazia published on Monday, May 26, Nixon says she watched all six seasons of the iconic HBO series before reprising her role as Miranda Hobbes in the spinoff And Just Like That.\u00a0 Nixon, 59, thought that 90 percent of the [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell continued, \u201cI was nervous with Cynthia and then Michael said, \u2018You guys can be a little bit more\u2026\u2019 and I was thinking, \u2018I can\u2019t, really!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kissing wasn\u2019t hard, but the laying in bed and the wanting us to act like we had just done it \u2026 I\u2019m a little immature when it comes to that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2025, Nixon, 60, revealed how her good friend\u2019s <em>And Just Like That<\/em> cameo came about.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMichael Patrick King, who writes our show and is one of the chief writers on our show, has been trying to write a part for Rosie every season, and it\u2019s never quite worked out,\u201d the Emmy winner told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/cynthia-nixon-had-key-role-getting-rosie-odonnell-to-play-virgin-nun-and-just-like-that-exclusive-11747020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>People<\/em><\/a>. \u201cSo this time when he told me what the idea was, I thought, \u2018Oh, this is fantastic,\u2019 and he let me text her myself and describe it and say, you know, could we please send you this script? With all our fingers and toes crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is so funny and she is so funny in the part, but she\u2019s so centered and so real,\u201d Nixon said of O\u2019Donnell\u2019s performance in the episode. \u201cI think that we knew she would be hilarious, but I think we were unprepared for how moving she would be in the part, how incredibly sincere and how much she would wear her heart on her sleeve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>And Just Like That<\/em>, which reunited Nixon, <strong>Sarah Jessica Parker<\/strong> (Carrie Bradshaw) and <strong>Kristin Davis<\/strong> (Charlotte York), aired for three seasons from 2021 to 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/rosie-odonnell-recalls-horrifying-cynthia-nixon-sex-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie O\u2019Donnell wasn\u2019t banking on so much sex when she checked into the city for a cameo on And Just Like That. The actress and comedian, 64, appeared as a nun who ends up losing her virginity to Cynthia Nixon\u2019s Miranda Hobbes in the season 3 premiere of the Sex and the City spinoff. 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