Bobby Cannavale calls “Scarpetta ”sex scenes with Jamie Lee Curtis 'really fun'
Bobby Cannavale calls “Scarpetta ”sex scenes with Jamie Lee Curtis 'really fun'
Marina WattsFri, March 13, 2026 at 10:53 PM UTC
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Bobby Cannavale; Jamie Lee CurtisCredit: Kevin Mazur/Getty; Emma McIntyre/WireImageKey Points -
Bobby Cannavale revealed what it was like filming sex scenes with Jamie Lee Curtis for Scarpetta.
The Boardwalk Empire alum also noted that the Oscar winner pitched him the crime series.
Season 1 of Scarpetta is available to stream on Prime Video.
Bobby Cannavale is getting candid about sex scenes with Scarpetta costar Jamie Lee Curtis.
The actor spoke with PEOPLE about filming intimate scenes in the crime thriller series with the Oscar winner. On the show, Cannavale said that their characters, married couple Pete Marino and Dorothy Scarpetta, have a "really active, physical sex life."
He continued, "That was just really fun to shoot. Jamie is so in the room when she's in the room. She's in the room when she's not in the room, you know what I mean?"
Bobby Cannavale and Ariana DeBose on 'Scarpetta'Credit: Connie Chornuk/Prime
Cannavale added that the Freaky Friday star "makes everybody in the room feel like an artist, like we're all making this thing. She is just such a life force, and the enthusiasm and the positive nature that she brings to everything is infectious."
As for how Cannavale got involved in the show, it was Curtis who had pitched the series to him via text. "She talked about the books to me and she made it sound really enticing," he told PEOPLE. "Then I read [the] script, and I was just hooked."
He noted, "I thought the combination of those really rich, well-drawn characters with the conceit of putting them into two timeframes like that, I thought was really, really clever."
Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis on 'Scarpetta'Credit: Connie Chornuk/Prime
Curtis is clearly passionate about the project. She told Entertainment Weekly how she helped get the 1990 crime novel Postmortem by Patricia Cromwell — which Scarpetta is based on — adapted for television.
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"I called Patricia and said, 'Who has the rights to Scarpetta right now?' and she said, 'No one,'" she recalled. "I was so surprised that this incredible book series, with this fantastic lead character, had not been brought to the screen yet. I called Jason Blum and said, 'I'd like to buy these books, and I would like to develop them for television.'"
Curtis also shared what she thought made the show stand out amid other crime and thriller series. "What's interesting about our show is that it's a little bit of a hybrid, which is, it's also an intense family drama in the midst of a forensic, procedural, crime-solving story," she noted.
Speaking with PEOPLE, Cannavale also detailed scenes he shared in a truck with Nicole Kidman, which he credited as "really rich" and "the best-written scenes." "[The truck is] where these deep, dark secrets start to reveal themselves. They dance around it and they attack it head on in some cases, but it's always charged when we're in the truck. There was so much good stuff for me to play with."
Scarpetta follows Kidman as forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who uses her knowledge to investigate a string of murders that are eerily similar to an incident that took place 25 years before.
Season 1 of Scarpetta is available to stream on Prime Video.
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