USA: Stars of "Sex and the City" talk about making the film and address rumors of fighting and money squabbles

Record ID: 334983

  • Title: USA: Stars of "Sex and the City" talk about making the film and address rumors of fighting and money squabbles
  • Date: 14th May 2008
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (RECENT) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) SARAH JESSICA PARKER SAYING: "I really haven't thought past getting this movie on the screen. Up until the day before yesterday Michael was still in the editing room, I was still doing producing, you know tasks that were related to that. So my focus and Michael's has really been about the present and we haven't really thought about it beyond that."
  • Embargoed: 29th May 2008 13:00
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  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda, the beloved characters from HBO's hit series "Sex and The City" are back and taking New York and the big screen by storm.
    The film version of the hit series that put Cosmopolitans on the map and made women lust for a new pair of Manolo Blahnik heels, answers the lingering questions viewers around the world were left wondering -- Will Carrie and Big ever get married? Will Charlotte have a baby? Can Samantha really settle down with Smith? Can Miranda be happy living the family life in Brooklyn? Sarah Jessica Parker who plays Carrie in the series and the film, is also a producer. Parker says she's been working on making the project for two and a half years and couldn't be happier to see it finally coming to fruition.
    Asked about being back together again, Parker says "it has been a privilege to be surrounded by them and I love them and they are family."

    "This is a group of people that I love, that I have fought for, I have campaigned for and championed and I will do until we don't talk about the movie anymore."
    But getting everyone together wasn't easy. There were reports that when talks about a film began Kim Cattrall demanded more money and creative control, which ended in a stalemate.
    Four years later the parties successfully negotiated and the crew is together again. Looking back, Cattrall says she was in a difficult place when the show ended; she was in the midst of a public divorce and her father had just been diagnosed with dementia.

    "It was a really hard time and I needed to spend time with not my film family. I needed to spend time with my real family and I'm really glad that I did because in the four years you know, coming back, I think the film is where it should be, I think that the money is on the screen, I think that it's bigger and better. I know that I am in a much better place so I can get back into what that was like and what that portrays about women."
    The film looks at the ladies' lives four years from the end of the series. Carrie is still working out of her Upper East Side apartment, but now she a contributing editor to Vogue and is working on her fourth book.
    Charlotte is living out her dream on Park Avenue, and Samantha has followed her actor boyfriend to Los Angeles. Miranda is still in Brooklyn, missing Manhattan, and is grappling with the struggles of motherhood.
    Chris Noth is back as Carrie's love interest Mr. Big, and actress Candice Bergen also returns as Carrie's editor Enid Frick at Vogues. There is a new addition to the cast too, Louise, Carrie's assistant, played by Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson.
    Cynthia Nixon who plays Miranda, says making the film "was bigger in every way. We're a little older now and the issues we're dealing with are less silly and squabbly and more profound I would say."
    As was true to the show, New York City is featured throughout the film, at locations including the New York Public Library and hot tickets like fashion week and Buddakan.
    Fashion has always been a big part of Sex and The City and the film doesn't disappoint. Producer Sarah Jessica Parker worked with costume designers and reached out to design houses to request samples and up coming designs for the film. But the ladies insist their were no squabbles over clothes - or anything else.
    Kristin Davis says she's tired of hearing the gossip that the women didn't get along on set. She's tried to set the record straight she says, adding that no one wants to run those stories because they don't sell magazines.

    "It's a sexist thing really. They [magazines] don't talk about how The Sopranos all fought or whatever, and I'm not saying they did, I'm just saying you don't see it about shows about men. And I think that we need to say that. We've got a woman running for president, we need to get with the times, not all women are bitchy to each other."
    The hit series that premiered on HBO in 1998, ran for six seasons and earned 50 Emmy nods and 8 Golden Globes will be in theaters on May 30th.
    As for a sequel, Sarah Jessica says she's not thinking about that yet, but most cast members told Reuters that given the opportunity, they'll surely sign up.
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