Cynthia Nixon Talks Gross Sex Scene That Was Cut From 'Sex and the City,' Kim Cattrall's Franchise Future

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was known for pushing boundaries and putting it all out there, but there was one line the franchise decided not to cross. On Thursday's episode of , Cynthia Nixon -- who played attorney Miranda Hobbes on and the Max spin-off,  -- shared the one sex scene from the original series that was cut. «Miranda dated a really hot detective who she was very intimidated by, he was really out of her league, so she got wildly drunk,» the 57-year-old actress recalled. «They didn't cut that plot, but they cut the sex scene where she's really, really drunk and then vomits all over him.»The storyline came from the season 3 episode «What Goes Around Comes Around,» in which Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is mugged and the detective on the case, Detective Stevens (Timothy Gibbs), starts a romance with Miranda.

Earlier this month, Nixon opened up to ET's Nischelle Turner about being «fairly game» for filming revealing sex scenes in the franchise. «I feel like I was always fairly game for it,» Nixon told ET. «It's just one of the main subjects of the show is sex — people having sex and people having great sex and people having terrible sex and people having hilarious sex.»While on, Nixon also revealed that both she and co-star Kristin Davis, who went on to play Charlotte York Goldenblatt in, originally read for the role of Carrie. «When I first read the script, they asked me to read for Carrie, actually.

I think that was true for Kristin [Davis] too,» Nixon said. «And they were like, 'Not so much.'»Nixon also spoke about co-star Kim Cattrall's brief cameo in the season 2 finale of, reprising her role as Samantha Jones.