“Are You a Charlotte?” podcast.As viewers may recall, the series opens with a British journalist named Elizabeth (played by Wynter, 51) who has an affair with an investment banker — only to be ghosted by him later on.Scott Bryce played the investment banker in the pilot episode — but according to Wynter, the role originally went to John F.
Kennedy’s nephew, Christopher Lawford.“I remember the person that they had cast to play the boyfriend was not the person that wound up getting the job on set,” Wynter said to Davis, 59, on the podcast. “So, I was surprised when I got on set,” she added.Lawford was the son of British actor Peter Lawford and JFK’s sister, Patricia Kennedy.
He died of a heart attack in 2018 at age 63.“He was at the read-through,” Wynter recalled about meeting Lawford on the set of the show. “And I remember thinking ‘That’s perfect.’ To have, like, this Kennedy — not Kennedy-esque, Kennedy.”However, Lawford was ultimately replaced by Bryce, 67, for the sex scene with Wynter.And to this day, she and Davis still don’t know why.“What happened?
I want to know,” said Wynter. “Did he become unavailable? Did something happen? None of us knew.”When “SATC” premiered in 1998, Lawford had already been in several films like “Spellbinder,” “The Russia House,” and “Jack the Bear” and TV shows such as “Tales from the Crypt” and “All My Children.”He went on to appear in episodes of “Chicago Hope,” Frasier” and “The O.C.” before his death.Lawford wrote a book about his battle with drug addiction.