GERMANY/FILE: 'Sex-and the City' stars at Berlin premiere

Record ID: 335811

  • Title: GERMANY/FILE: 'Sex-and the City' stars at Berlin premiere
  • Date: 22nd May 2008
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 16, 2008) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) SARAH JESSICA PARKER ON HER STATUS AS A STYLE ICON, SAYING "I don't feel obliged. On occasions like this it's a really nice excuse to dress up, it's not how I spend the better part of my life as a mother and as a working person and in the dead of winter in New Yorke thes (pointing at her shoes) are not all app
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  • Story Text: Repeated rumours of rowing co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall of Sex and the City were scattered on Thursday evening (May 16) when the two were spotted at the party after the German premiere of 'Sex and the City' in Berlin.
    Laughing and enjoying a drink together, Parker and Cattrall looked like good friends who were relaxing after a long day's work. Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis also attended the party. In an interview on Friday (May 16) Cattrall said she did leave the event after 45 minutes to stroll through Berlin a bit and 'have a beer' in Berlin's largest park Tiergarten. She was quick to add, however, that she left simply to enjoy some quiet time during her short stay in Germany (Cattrall use to live in Frankfurt with her second husband in the eighties.") and not because she was feuding with any of her co-stars.
    "I think there is something inside Samantha that says 'It's okay.' Because she is so free, she has no judgement, she accepts" Cattrall told Reuters about her character in the movie. "And I think that is a wonderful thing for me to own. As far as me influencing her, agewise... Start the series and be 41 and play such a femme fatale... I thought those days were over, those were my salad days, I was in a different period in my life and I have really a lot to say thank you to, because she really educated me about that. And now in the film she turns fifty, which I have done. And it's a frightening thing, but with Samantha, she celebrates. And I think that's a wonderful lesson for me, for her, for the world. Women age like men do, we get better just like men do."
    Clad in a nude Versace dress, Parker on the Berlin Pink Carpet sported a look very different from the one at the London premiere- exactly what one might expect from a style icon like Carrie Bradshaw.
    "I don't feel obliged" Parker told Reuters about her love for dressing up. "On occasions like this it's a really nice excuse to dress up, it's not how I spend the better part of my life as a mother and as a working person and in the dead of winter in New York these (pointing at her shoes) are not all appropriate. But on occasions for work it's really nice, it's nice to have your hair done and put proper make up on and have a lovely dress to wear, so it's not really a burden. I don't identify myself the way other people might. Because as a mother, I identify first and foremost as that. It's wonderful, this relationship that I've had with clothes and it's really, I know, in large parts due to playing this incredible character for all those years."
    Essentially picking up four years later from where the Emmy-winning HBO series left off in 2004 (after six seasons), the movie efficiently brings everybody up to speed.
    Carrie, no longer writing that weekly column, is working on her fourth book and is still in a stable relationship with Mr. Big (Chris Noth).
    Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is living her fairy tale existence on Park Avenue with her hubby, Harry (Evan Handler), and the little girl they adopted from China. The considerably more-stressed Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is living in Brooklyn, struggling to balance a high-pressure job with marriage to her husband Steve (David Eigenberg) and motherhood.
    Meanwhile, over on the other coast, Samantha (Kim Cattrall) appears to have settled down with her actor-client Smith (Jason Lewis) in their sunny Malibu beach house.
    But when Big pops the big question, a whole mess of change is set into gear.
    With that jumping-off point, the movie certainly was capable of standing on its own two Blahniks.
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