Her Character Arc Was Short-lived But Included a Post-coital Scene With Her Real-life Friend Nixon

Rosie O'Donnell has opened up about filming intimate scenes with Cynthia Nixon on the final season of "And Just Like That, describing the experience as "horrifying" due to nerves. O'Donnell, a former daytime talk show host, was introduced in the first episode of season three as a love interest for Nixon's character, Miranda. Her character arc was short-lived but included a post-coital scene with her real-life friend Nixon.

Both actresses appeared on a recent episode of Amy Poehler's "Good Hang" podcast. Poehler asked Nixon what questions she had for O'Donnell, one of which was about filming their personal scene. O'Donnell said it was "horrifying to me because I was so nervous.

"First of all, I love her. I love her and have so much respect for her, O'Donnell said. "And she called me and she's like, 'Ro, you know, Michael Patrick [King] wrote you a scene and it's with me.

Will you do it? I said, 'Of course I'll do it with you. And then I read it and I'm like in bed with just the sheets and then I'm like, 'Oh my god.

O'Donnell noted she had only done one other sex scene in her career, with the late Julian McMahon on "Nip/Tuck, whom she described as "such a gentleman. She recalled being nervous with Nixon when showrunner Michael Patrick King suggested they could be "a little bit more, to which she thought, "I can't really. Poehler interjected: "Also it's weird to kiss your friends.

O'Donnell agreed: "Yes. Exactly. The kissing wasn't hard, but the laying in bed and the wanting us to act like we had just done it.

I was like, ugh. Speaking about Nixon beyond her on-screen persona, O'Donnell praised her: "She is the real deal. Period.

End of subject. She's one of the best actresses that we have. She stands up for injustice wherever she sees it.

She puts her money where her mouth is. She loves her children and her wife and I admire her greatly. Nixon shared similar feelings about O'Donnell earlier in the episode, noting they've been friends since the early days of "Sex and the City.

When asked by Poehler to answer her own question about filming the scene, Nixon admitted it was "a little strange" but lovely because O'Donnell played a nun having her first sexual experience with anybody. "She's so funny, Rosie, but she didn't play it for laughs, Nixon said. "She played it with such tenderness and hope and excitement, and it just, of course, it made it even more funny.