New York friends from the “Sex and the City” series from the 1990s are back. HBO Max, the WarnerMedia platform, has announced a new 10-episode season.
However, for this new tranche, 17 years after its last chapter, there will be not four, but three, the main actresses, since Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones, does not participate in the project.
“Sex and the City” was one of HBO’s first commercial hits, aired for six seasons between 1998 and 2004 and was based on a real column. Yes, there was a Carrie Bradshaw who wrote a weekly text called exactly like the series.
“Sex and the City” was first published in The New York Observer on November 28, 1994, and was signed by 35-year-old Candance Bushnell.
“When I received the column, I felt ‘I know what to do with it,'” Bushnell told the New York Times on the show’s 20th anniversary.
“If he gave me the spine at 28, I wouldn’t know where to take it,” he added.
The author told The Guardian the same year that when he began writing it, there was not much interest in the cultural reality of single women in the city.
“People really felt that if a woman was single in her thirties, there was something wrong with her,” she said.
On The New York Observer, you can still find some of the original articles, such as “Loving Mr. Big,” published in April 1995 and in which the author begins by talking about a film production company that he says that he’ll call her Samantha Jones.
FROM NEWSPAPER TO BOOK AND FROM BOOK TO SCREEN
In 1996, the columns were collected in a book of the same name. Darren Star, a producer of shows such as “Melrose Place,” who had met Bushnell when he interviewed him for Vogue, saw the potential of these stories.
Two years later, the broadcast of the first season began. The ABC network was also interested in fiction at first, but in the end it was HBO that got its hands on it.
The experiences of the four friends, Samantha, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte, who drank cosmopolitan cocktails, went out to parties and talked about sex, had more and more followers.
“There’s a lot of pressure to portray men in a way that fits Cinderella’s love and relationship narrative,” the author told the New York Times.
“And ‘Sex and the City’ was an opportunity to show a reality about men and relationships that I was not allowed to do in women’s magazines and, to some extent, in women’s editorials,” she added. .
Sarah Jessica Parker revealed for a book, echoed by The Hollywood Reporter, that she had no passion for Carrie’s character, but that her agent, Kevin Huvane, had to persuade her to play her.
“I met Darren and I had some worries,” Parker said. The concerns he mentions were related to some aspects of the language and his refusal to do nudity. “But Kevin kept telling me, ‘It’s different. You have never done such a thing, “he added.
Finally, a non-nudity clause has been included in the contract, and the rest is history.
A DIFFERENT END
At the end of the series, Carrie and Mr. Big arrived together, something that neither Bushnell nor Star had in mind.
“I don’t think Carrie and Big would have gotten together in real life,” the author told The Guardian, but there came a time when the series had grown into an iconic couple.
“It simply came to our notice then. And when people do a TV show, it’s about shows, not art, so at the time it was for the public and we didn’t think about the impact it would have ten years later. ”
Star, in turn, said she believes the series has betrayed what it is about, meaning women do not find happiness in marriage.
“It simply came to our notice then. But the show was originally out of the script of previous romantic comedies, “Star said in an interview.” Eventually, it became a traditional romantic comedy. ”
The series was followed by two films in 2008 and 2010. The third film was canceled before production began.
On that occasion, Kim Cattrall also chose not to participate in the project. Later, on a British show, the actress said that she is not among her plans to return to the skin of public relations.
There was also talk about the bad relationship that existed between her and the rest of the protagonists, especially with Sarah Jessica Parker.
Now, the sequel to the series will focus on Carrie’s life and friendship, played by Parker; Miranda, played by Cynthia Nixon, and Charlotte, played by Kristin Davis, at fifty.
