Sarah Jessica Parker defends Carrie's traits in 'Sex and the City' after 25 years. 'Loved how she was written'
The 60-year-old actor defended the character's life choices and traits, which were criticised by the viewers.
The 60-year-old actor defended the character's life choices and traits, which were criticised by the viewers.
The 60-year-old actor defended the character's life choices and traits, which were criticised by the viewers.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker who played the iconic character Carrie Bradshaw in 'Sex and the City' recently opened up about the legacy of her role on the recent episode of the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast. Carrie, as per IANS, said it was 'exciting' to take on such a bold character in the series, which began filming in 1998. The 60-year-old actor defended the character's life choices and traits, which were criticised by the viewers.
She said, 'First of all, the way she was speaking, like her choice of language, I'd never seen or heard a woman talk like that' she recalled of Carrie, adding that she respected 'her candor' and 'curiosity about sex and sexual politics'.
“Which is not like me, I don't talk about that at all even with friends”. Parker noted. “I'll talk about it globally, but I don't sit and share intimate details of my life that way”. As per ‘People’, Carrie is a sex columnist (based on the show’s writer, Candace Bushnell, who was the author of The New York Observer's ‘Sex and the City’ column), and Parker shared that she always liked how 'circumspect' she was about how the world’s issues related to women. “I admired that she was scrappy”, the actress revealed. “She was a little survivor. She had instincts to keep her head (up), not always making smart choices and falling short of being the best friend or the best girlfriend or her best self, but I also was very happy that they were writing her that way”.
While viewers have criticised Carrie for many of those bad decisions, like having an affair with Chris Noth’s Mr. Big while he was married and she was dating Aiden (John Corbett), Parker shared that she never felt 'frustrated' in the role. “There's a sentiment sometimes that she's frustrating or she's selfish or she makes poor decisions or she doesn't manage her money well”, Parker acknowledged. “Yeah, all of that has been true over the course of the last 25 years. But she's also been hugely loyal, decent, reliable, a really good friend, generous, available, present, comforting, giving of herself in big, in small ways, that are private and public, to her and among her friends. And, she loves”.