On this week’s episode of “The Girls on the Bus,” Sadie McCarthy (Melissa Benoist) had a dream where Scott Foley actually did a strip tease to Ginuwine’s hit “Pony.” And it seems he might be a little affected by it.
In the episode available on Max, Sadie goes to one of Foley's events after being unable to meet rival candidate Felicity Walker (Hettienne Park). Suddenly, music starts playing, “Pony” starts, and Foley and his staff put on a performance with choreography, stripping, and more.
Obviously, it’s not something the presidential candidate is actually doing to win votes. It’s just a dream in Sadie’s head. But it did require a real performance, and Foley put in a lot of effort.
Foley joked with TheWrap, saying, “I would like to know how this came up too. And I’d like to have a talk with whoever decided to write it in there.”
It turns out it was a few people: showrunners Amy Chozick, Julie Plec and Rina Mimoun. But the women mostly blame it on Chozick.
“I would love to take credit for Amy’s suggestive little brain,” Mimoun said with a laugh. called Because of his previous friendship with me, I asked Scott Foley if he would consider taking his shirt off, and he said, ‘I’ll take my pants off!'”
But Foley admitted that his willingness to do it was was a bit of acting in itself. And his scene partner Melissa Benoist could sense it.
“I could tell that maybe he was a little nervous and didn’t want to do it,” Benoist explained to TheWrap. She added, laughing, “And I know he was like, starving himself.”
Foley openly admitted to putting himself on a temporary diet to get in shape for the moment. Although it turned out to be somewhat ridiculous, he was still happy he did it.
“It was both the most terrifying and probably the most rewarding scene I shot in the show,” Foley explained. “I say that because I think it works. If they hadn’t set up the sort of workings of Sadie’s fantasy life, it just wouldn’t have made any sense at all.”
He continued, “But since that was well established in the first couple episodes — though it didn’t make me any happier to do it — it worked in the script. Maybe not in my 51-year-old mind or body.”
You can watch Scott Foley, Melissa Benoist and the creators of “The Girls on the Bus” discuss the “Pony” sequence in its entirety in the video above.
“The Girls on the Bus” is now available on Max.
