Rosie O’Donnell Recalls ‘Horrifying’ Sex Scene With Cynthia Nixon in ‘And Just Like That’

Rosie O’Donnell wasn’t 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’s Miranda Hobbes in the season 3 premiere of the Sex and the City spinoff. But according to O’Donnell, filming an intimate postcoital moment in bed together was “horrifying.”

“I was so nervous!” O’Donnell shared on the “Good Hang With Amy Poehler” podcast on Tuesday, August 11.

“First of all, I love her. I love her and have so much respect for her,” O’Donnell said of Nixon. “She called me and she was like, ‘Ro, Tufayel Ahmed 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 in bed with just the sheets and then I’m like, ‘Oh, my God.’”

O’Donnell continued, “I was nervous with Cynthia and then Michael said, ‘You guys can be a little bit more…’ and I was thinking, ‘I can’t, really!’”

“The kissing wasn’t hard, but the laying in bed and the wanting us to act like we had just done it … I’m a little immature when it comes to that,” she added.

In June 2025, Nixon, 60, revealed how her good friend’s And Just Like That cameo came about.

“Michael 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’s never quite worked out,” the Emmy winner told People. “So this time when he told me what the idea was, I thought, ‘Oh, this is fantastic,’ 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.”

“She is so funny and she is so funny in the part, but she’s so centered and so real,” Nixon said of O’Donnell’s performance in the episode. “I 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.”

And Just Like That, which reunited Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte York), aired for three seasons from 2021 to 2025.