'Sex and the City' Star Makes Major Admission About the Hit Show
On the heels of And Just Like That... premiering season 3 on HBO Max, Sarah Jessica Parker walked down memory lane of the role that changed her life, Carrie Bradshaw, on Sex and the City.
And near the tail end of her conversation on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Cooper couldn't help but wonder if Parker had seen any of the SATC episodes to remember anything as production ramped up on And Just Like That....
To Cooper's surprise, nope.
"I've never seen most of it," Parker admits. "I've never watched the show. I watched it in the beginning and there was a period in which I was getting dailies and rough cuts from the studio, but I finally begged off."
Why did she beg off? It's actually kinda relatable.
"Because, A) I wasn't keeping up. [Sex and the City principal director and writer] Michael Patrick [King] was like, 'You gotta watch, you gotta give me notes. You gotta watch it.' And then I realized that I wasn't being helpful because it was so unpleasant for me to watch myself that I couldn't see the work. And that's not a good producing partner. I was able to be a partner in lots of other ways."
Sex and the City premiered in 1998 on HBO. The dramedy was created by Darren Star and based on Candace Bushnell's 1996 book of her sex columns. The series, which aired 94 episodes across six seasons, starred Parker, Kim Cattrall (as Samantha Jones), Kristin Davis (as Charlotte York) and Cynthia Nixon (as Miranda Hobbes).
The successful series, which follows the lives of four friends navigating relationships and sex (lots of sex), spawned the sequel And Just Like That...., which is now in its third season.
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