Writers Open Up About New ‘Sex And The City’ Movie
The big question that many of us are asking ourselves when it comes to the next ‘Sex and the City’ movie is whether or not Carrie Bradshaw will actually marry Mr. Big. We know that they are finally a true couple but will fans be able to catch a wedding in their future?
Writer Carrie’s relationship with a financier known as Big, the love lives, and fashion choices, of her friends — publicist Samantha, curator Charlotte and lawyer Miranda — enthralled millions of television viewers during six seasons. And now four years after the series ended they are back with fans desperate to know the fate of Carrie and Mr. Big.
“Those people who like the show will expect the joy and the good times and the whimsy and the clothes and the cocktails and the salty language,” said actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Carrie and also produced the movie and TV series. “But what they might not expect is that the shank of the movie is pretty sad,” she said.
Based on Candace Bushnell’s autobiographical columns in The New York Observer newspaper, the TV series won eight Golden Globes and seven Emmys and made Manolo Blahnik shoes and the Cosmopolitan cocktail household names. The movie picks up where the series ended — Carrie and Big are together, Samantha is in Los Angeles with her boy toy, Charlotte and her husband are raising their adopted Chinese daughter and Miranda is in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
“I always knew the big story left untold was literally the ‘Big’ story — would Carrie and Big get married? What would that be if they did or what wouldn’t it be?” said Michael Patrick King, writer and director of the film.
King said the script focuses on the difference between 35 and 40 and the things you let go of as you evolve.
But fans should not be worried — there is still a passion for fashion with the return of stylist Patricia Field, whose work on “Sex and the City” helped have it dubbed “the biggest thing in fashion since the invention of pants” by Elle magazine.
“They spawned an unstoppable machine of economic, cultural, and social trends that still very much matter today,” the magazine said. “From nameplate necklaces to exposed bra straps, SATC (Sex and the City) had a hand in creating some of the biggest fashion statements of the past 10 years.” Parker said that she has archived all of her character’s clothes “that were not borrowed,” which proved useful when restocking Carrie’s apartment closet for the film.