In an Instagram interview to promote Dummy, Heller and Kendrick spoke about all the different aspects of the series. At one point, they discussed a scene that Kendrick was unwilling to perform. "What was the thing I wanted to shoot?" asks Heller, "that you were, like, 'get me a bottle of wine and maybe.'"
"We shot a version of the scene where I kiss the doll," Kendrick explains. Heller jumps in, adding, "I wanted Anna to do a sex scene that was more of a sex scene. It winded up not needing it and it was classier."
For reference, on the penultimate episode of Dummy,"Paraben-Free Lube," the love doll, Barbara (Meredith Hagner), is hanging out with Cody on their balcony when a young man, Jaxon (Gustavo Escobar), steps out of the apartment complex's communal pool. Barbara is "romantically" excited, let's say, about Jaxon, even though he is just a boy — an eighth grader to be exact. Barbara coaxes Cody into dressing her up in lingerie and getting Jaxon into a bedroom so that he might be tempted to be intimate with Barbara. The situation does not go well, and the interaction causes Cody and Barbara to reveal their mutual jealousies over each other's bodies. Eventually, the talk turns into touching and an intimate smooch as the Counting Crows song "I am Ready" plays and the scene fades out. The implication is obvious.
Apparently, Heller had a vision to make this scene far more sexually explicit. On Dummy's final episode, entitled "Plus Size Plus One," Cody does tell her therapist that she and Barbara "did everything" before rattling off a list of intimate acts performed off-screen with the doll.
