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Daily Mail
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sarah Jessica Parker reveals why she 'sobbed' during Sex and the City stint amid Kim Cattrall feud
Sarah Jessica Parker has opened up about the most upsetting part of starring on Sex and the City amid her feud with former co-star Kim Cattrall. 'I think just discussions of my physical person [were the hardest],' the 60-year-old former child star told Call Her Daddy on Wednesday. 'Like, stuff that I couldn't change and wouldn't change and had never considered changing, or even still after hearing something that was like, "What? Somebody would say that?" — even still, no interest in changing it.' Sarah wondered if her critics 'would say that to my face' if they had a real conversation. 'I didn't feel like I could sit in a room and someone would say to me, "You're really unattractive,"' Parker mused. 'And then I could say, "Wow. Well, first of all, that's hard to hear. But second of all, why do you seem angry about it? Or why do you feel it's necessary to comment?"' The 60-year-old former child star told Call Her Daddy on Wednesday: 'I think just discussions of my physical person [were the hardest]. Like, stuff that I couldn't change and wouldn't change and had never considered changing, or even still after hearing something that was like, "What? Somebody would say that?" — even still, no interest in changing it' The two-time Emmy winner hit a breaking point when she read 'something really mean' about how she looked in a magazine, which she called 'a kick in the rubber parts.' 'I called two of my friends, who happened to be male because I knew that they might know about it. And I was just like sobbing because it felt so purposeful,' Sarah recalled. 'And I think that's the only time I really cried about it. I think it was just an accumulation of maybe a season of that kind of commentary, which no one was trying to make me aware of it, but it gets [back to you].' Before producing and starring in Darren Star's small-screen adaptation of Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 book anthology, Parker noted that 'there was no chatter about me. There was just my work.' 'It was the personal stuff that I was really not prepared for,' the Ohio-born actress explained. 'At that time, I thought I was a fairly confident I think it really comes into question and is tested when you're kind of filleted in a better for those kinds of experiences, but not all of us are good at it right away.' Sex and the City - which was iconic yet culturally Caucasian - aired for six seasons on HBO and spawned two terrible films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010) as well as a forgettable prequel, The CW's The Carrie Diaries (2013–14). Sex and the City - which was iconic yet culturally Caucasian - aired for six seasons on HBO and spawned two terrible films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010) as well as a forgettable prequel, The CW's The Carrie Diaries (2013–14) The Emmy-winning series borrowed heavily from its predecessor about four female friends living in a big city - NBC sitcom The Golden Girls (1985-1992) - even copying the character archetypes of a funny one, a smart one, a naïve one, and a slut The two-time Emmy winner admitted she hasn't even seen Michael Patrick King's dismally-reviewed continuation And Just Like That, despite being an executive producer, which most fans hate-watch due to their devotion for Sex and the City The Emmy-winning series borrowed heavily from its predecessor about four female friends living in a big city - NBC sitcom The Golden Girls (1985-1992) - even copying the character archetypes of a funny one, a smart one, a naïve one, and a slut. Sarah admitted she hasn't even seen Michael Patrick King's dismally-reviewed continuation And Just Like That, despite being an executive producer, which most fans hate-watch due to their devotion for Sex and the City. Catch more of Parker as wealthy widowed author Carrie Bradshaw in the 12-episode third season of And Just Like That, which airs Thursdays on HBO Max. Variety reported that the SJP Collection founder, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis all earned $10M paychecks to executive produce and star in season one, but it's unclear if they've since received raises.
The Guardian
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
And Just Like That ... The Sex and the City spin-off's surprising take on race
Are any of the writers on And Just Like That (AJLT) reading this? Because I have several helpful suggestions to bring the current series of your Sex and the City reboot into 2025: Charlotte's husband, the hitherto harmless Harry, could start pressuring her into an open marriage, involving whatever passes for wild sex parties on the Upper East Side. Miranda could soon enter her Chappell-Roan-power-ballad era by hooking up with a sexually captivating, but emotionally unavailable, decades-younger woman. And what about a big reveal involving Aidan, who has been draining Carrie's bank accounts all along (because he's secretly a Reddit-radicalised, misogynist crypto bro now). I'd also suggest we see and hear a lot less from the children. The existence of Brady, Brock, Tilly and Twerp should only ever be referenced occasionally and obliquely, for form's sake. Y'know, like how people of colour were treated all the way through the original Sex and the City series? Ironically, racial politics is the one area in which AJLT is doing just fine, even without my help. This is not the consensus view, I'm aware. Many fans entered a state of full-body cringe during the first season, when Miranda wondered aloud if she was having 'a white saviour moment' when fighting off a mugger attacking her Black friend, and are yet to regain full use of their sphincter muscles. But the fact is, AJLT understands the specific whiteness of wealthy white women, in a way that not only vastly improves on the original show's run, but which could also teach other contemporary TV shows a thing or two about 'diversity' and 'representation'. Principally, this show gets things right by allowing its characters to get things wrong. The Mirandas of this world – and I can say this, because I am such a Miranda – often get to ride the righteous train all the way to Smug Town without so much as a ticket inspection. But the truth is, even the well-intentioned – especially the well-intentioned – have blind spots, and most of us could do with some practice at keeping our cool when those are brought to the fore. AJLT leans into the cringe and, as such, acts as a kind of anti-racist exposure therapy for its middle-aged, white, liberal core audience. The secondhand embarrassment it generates is healthy, productive and funny. Because imagine the alternative: this show could have remade its central trio as ever-elegant, socially confident 'sheroes'. Girl bosses who get it. Women who never miss a beat and are always at one with the sensibilities of the age. It could have shielded them from ever looking uncool or out-of-touch, or jaw-droppingly oblivious, in the way that Carrie does in the episode where her new Indian-American friend, Seema (Sarita Choudhury), takes her sari shopping in preparation for the Patel family's Diwali party. Upon entering the shop, Carrie's eyes widen in wonderment. 'OK …' she says, 'These clothes … This holiday … I need to know everything about it!' Thus revealing that she is a fiftysomething woman, who has spent her entire adult life living in one of the most diverse cities in the world and yet – somehow – has never heard of Diwali, a festival celebrated annually by around a billion Indian and South Asian-descended people, worldwide. Get a clue, Carrie. When that episode aired, some commentators (mostly white women) bristled at the depiction of their carefree, curly queen. They said it wasn't plausible. It was doing Carrie dirty. But some of us (women of colour and the other white women) recognised the truth in that characterisation. It's Lana Turner in the classic 1959 film Imitation of Life, expressing surprise when Annie (Juanita Moore), her Black maid of several decades – and, essentially, her closest confidante – refers to a rich social life outside work. Annie's response? 'Miss Lora, you never asked.' Seema takes this in her stride. I suspect she too has met plenty of Carries in her time. The scene only begins to strain credulity when, moments later, Carrie follows up by asking her if she's ever considered an arranged marriage – What? Because she's Indian? – and Seema still betrays no hint of irritation. It wasn't the writing of Carrie's character that was flawed in that moment, but the writing of Seema's. It's because of moments like these that I'm glad the characters of Professor Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman) and Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez) have been phased out for season three. Or, as I prefer to understand it, set free to share a chilled bottle of chablis and/or weed vape with other friends who actually get it. I'm glad for their own sakes, because no human being wants to feel like a walking BLM reading list for someone on their solipsistic journey toward belated political consciousness. It was always clear why Miranda would want to be friends with Nya, the stylish, self-assured professor on her policies and principles of humanitarian law course – if only to improve her grades. But what is Nya getting out of the arrangement? After a long day of battling the ingrained racism of Ivy League academia, tending to her needy Gen Z grad students and her own underwritten IVF storyline, why would she want to spend her evenings further exerting herself by explaining micro-aggressions to Miranda 'give me a gold star' Hobbs? How is that relaxing? Nya and Che's departures also leave more room for AJLT's other two characters-of-colour to be fully realised. Lisa Todd Wexley, played by Nicole Ari Parker, is an upper-middle-class Black woman (she would probably prefer 'African American') with a busy career in documentary film-making and her scenes in the edit offer a way for AJLT to make meta-commentary on media depictions of Blackness – worshipful references to Michelle Obama are a leitmotif, for instance. Something similar was previously attempted in season two, when Che decamped to Los Angeles to get their semi-autobiographical sitcom off the ground and the Italian-American actor Tony Danza was cast as their Mexican father. Sadly, by that point, nobody watching cared about Che's tedious travails, so nobody cared about the politics of colour-blind casting either. Lisa isn't just a working mother with an impressive collection of oversized jewellery. She is also a classic example of the bad'n'bougie princess, a trope which allows TV to explore the intersections of race, gender and class, and has a noble lineage stretching back to Lisa Turtle on Saved by the Bell, through Hilary Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Dionne Davenport in Clueless, all the way to reality star Gizelle Bryant on Real Housewives of Potomac. Here, I detect the hand of Susan Fales-Hill, proud descendent of US 'afrostocracy', creator of original bougie princess Whitley Gilbert from A Different World, and a writer on AJLT since season two. Seema's type is more obvious. She is a new Samantha, brought in to replace our dearly beloved Kim Cattrall from the original SATC, a woman with so much charisma she could almost – but not quite – get away with wearing an afro wig to a post-chemo social gathering. Seema has Samantha's confidence and fondness for animal prints, but to that she adds her own top-note of vulnerability. Being a professionally high-flying, never-married, child-free woman in your 50s is fabulous. But, in a world that likes to constantly remind women of how they've failed to please the patriarchy, an occasional wobble of self-doubt is to be expected. It's in this wider context of the third season, with more screen time and better storylines, that Seema's ethnicity can be just one aspect of her character; neither defining, nor denied. Now, when Seema's cultural heritage is referenced, it's usually on her own terms, and in her own words. As she cautions bossy date-finder Sydney Cherkov (Saturday Night Live's Cheri Oteri): 'I'm Indian, we invented matchmaking'. And just like that, through an ever-enjoyable, show-your-workings process of trial-and-error, this show has landed on what it can most usefully add to the pop culture discourse about race. And that isn't shoe-horning in badly written POC characters to offer a hastily bodged version of racial diversity and representation. Rather it's exploring the whiteness of Miranda/Charlotte/Carrie as they move through this changed and changing world, but – crucially – always with a tad more self-awareness than the characters themselves possess. Now, back to more pressing matters: Should Charlotte order specially monogrammed stationery from Tiffany's for those sex party invites? And who's telling Anthony he's been cut from the guest list?
Vogue
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
63 Thoughts I Had While Watching And Just Like That… Season 3, Episode 4
I'm going to warn you guys in advance that this particular installment of And Just Like That… is, well, not exactly a thrill ride. I mean, it's hard to top the fun of episodes past, not to mention the original Sex and the City canon (I just rewatched the episodes where the girls go to LA, and man, I miss Samantha), but do things really have to be this dry and Aidan-centric? Nonetheless we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into Michael Patrick King's intellectual property. Below, find (literally) every thought I had about the fourth episode of And Just Like That…'s third season:
New York Times
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘And Just Like That …' Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: Guilty
Season 3, Episode 4: 'Apples to Apples' Is it time for all of us to face the very real possibility that Aidan is a narcissist? For the second time in their yearslong love affair, Aidan has lured Carrie to the countryside. In 'Sex and the City' Season 4, Aidan finds a backwoods cabin in the unfortunately named Suffern, N.Y., and all but forces Carrie to spend weekends up there with him and a domestic terrorist squirrel. This time, though, Carrie is in Virginia with Aidan, not so much against her will. In last week's episode, Carrie eagerly showed up down south to deliver Aidan a key to 'their' (insert eye-roll emoji) Gramercy palace, and then Aidan asked her to stay. Why, exactly, does he do that? Carrie asks Aidan that very question toward the end of this episode. There is only one correct answer, and it goes something like: 'Because you're the love of my life. I miss you, and I wish we could be together all the time, and I just wanted to feel that for at least a few days.' But Aidan tells Carrie nothing of the sort. He says simply, 'I felt guilty because you came all the way down here, and if I couldn't ask you to stay, what does that say about us?' Here is what I think: I think that response solidifies for viewers that Aidan is a deeply selfish, stubborn, manipulative jerk who is dead-set on making everyone close to him bend to his will. For starters, Aidan has successfully maneuvered his way into getting what he wants out of Carrie in this most recent iteration of their relationship. In 'And Just Like That …' Season 2, he refused to set foot in Carrie's house — a melodramatic boundary rooted in old cheating wounds Carrie had apologized for time and again. But then Carrie went and sold it and bought the Gramercy townhouse that he all but refuses, essentially, to set foot in today. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sarah Jessica Parker says her teenage daughters thrift, work summer jobs — and she doesn't give them cash for clothes
Sarah Jessica Parker spoke about her teenagers' money habits on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast. The "Sex and the City" star said her twin daughters buy used clothes and only spend what they earn. The actor said the teenagers work summer jobs and aren't interested in borrowing her outfits. "I like my money where I can see it — hanging in my closet," Carrie Bradshaw famously declares in "Sex and the City." Sarah Jessica Parker, the actor who's portrayed the fashionista columnist in six seasons of the TV show as well as two movies, shares her character's love for designer clothes and luxury accessories. Her teenage daughters have different ideas, Parker revealed on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast this week. Marion and Tabitha, 15, like clothes and will ask Parker a couple of times a month to buy something, she said, adding: "But they mostly buy their clothes used, almost entirely." Unlike Bradshaw, the twins don't spend like crazy or rush to join the latest trend, Parker said. One reason is they can't afford to: they "don't have a budget" and "don't have money with the exception of what they've earned," she said. Both girls had jobs last summer that allowed them to earn and save money, Parker said. She noted that she gives them "stuff of mine all the time," and she'd be "happy to loan them anything out of my closet." Echoing a certain stiletto-loving writer, she added: "My shoes don't fit them — it's really a tragedy. I'm actually not kidding, I find it really tragic." Parker recalled during the podcast episode that she was frugal as a young actor. "I knew exactly how much money I had in the bank and I took it out very judiciously," she said. "I tried to get by on $40 for three days." The TV-and-movie star has said she wants her children to have everything they need, but not everything they want, so they still have things to strive for. The sentiment echoes Warren Buffett's iconic advice that "hugely wealthy parents should leave their children enough so they can do anything but not enough that they can do nothing." Like Parker, other celebrities are working to teach their kids value for money and not spoil them despite their fabulous wealth. "Captain America: Brave New World" star Anthony Mackie said in an interview earlier this year that he keeps his four sons "humble" and they've "never had a pair of Jordans." Ben Affleck, the "Gone Girl" and "Argo" actor, has said he rejects his son's occasional requests for $1,000 sneakers by saying: "I have the money — you're broke." Sports star Shaquille O'Neal and comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Tucker have all reported using variations of that line with their children to help stave off entitlement. Despite their fame and fortune, these stars want their kids to know that spending smart never goes out of style. Read the original article on Business Insider
