The New York friends from the 1990s ‘Sex and the city’ series are back. HBO Max, the WarnerMedia platform, has announced a new 10-episode season.
However, for this new episode, 17 years after the last chapter, there will be not four, but three main actresses, as Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones, is not part of the project.
“Sex and the City” was one of HBO’s first commercial hits, airing for six seasons between 1998 and 2004, based on a real column. Yes, there was a Carrie Bradshaw who wrote a weekly text exactly as the series is called.
“Sex and the city” was first published in The New York Observer on November 28, 1994, and signed by Candance Bushnell, 35.
“When I got the column, I felt, ‘I know what to do with this,'” Bushnell told the New York Times on the occasion of the series’ twentieth anniversary.
“If they had given me the spine when I was 28, I wouldn’t have known where to take it,” he added.
The author told The Guardian that same year that when she started writing, there was not much interest in the cultural realities of single women in the city.
“People really felt that if a woman was in her thirties, there was something wrong with her,” she said.
On the website of The New York Observer, it is still possible to find some of the original articles, such as the article entitled “Loving Mr. Big” published in April 1995 in which the author starts talking about a film production company he says, Samantha Jones will call.
FROM THE NEWSPAPER TO THE BOOK AND FROM THE BOOK TO THE SCREEN
In 1996 the columns were collected in a book of the same name. Darren Star, a producer on shows like “Melrose Place,” whom Bushnell had met when interviewing him for Vogue, saw the potential of those stories.
Two years later the broadcast of the first season started. The ABC network was initially also interested in fiction, but in the end it was HBO who got their hands on it.
The experiences of those four friends, Samantha, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte, who drank cosmopolitan cocktails, went to party and talked about sex, gained more and more followers.
“There is a lot of pressure to portray men in a way that fits Cinderella’s story of love and relationships,” 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, which The Hollywood Reporter repeated, that she wasn’t in love with Carrie’s character, but that her agent, Kevin Huvane, had to convince her to play her.
“I met Darren and I had a few concerns,” Parker recalled. The concerns he mentions were related to some aspects of language and his refusal to be naked. But Kevin kept saying, ‘This is different. You’ve never done anything like it, ”he added.
Finally, a non-nudity clause was included in the contract, and the rest is history.
ANOTHER END
In the series finale, Carrie and Mr. Big together, something neither Bushnell nor Star had in mind.
“I don’t think Carrie and Big would have ended up together in real life,” the author told The Guardian. But there came a time when the series had become big and the pair iconic.
“It became part of the lexicon. And when people do a TV show, it’s show business, not art, so at the time it was in front of the audience and we didn’t think about what the impact would be ten years later. ”
Star, for her part, said she believed the series betrayed what it was about, which is that women don’t find happiness in marriage.
‘It’s not that they can’t. But the show wasn’t initially on the script of previous romantic comedies, ‘Star said in an interview. “In the end 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 UK show, the actress said it was not one of her plans to get back into public relations shoes.
There has also been talk of the bad relationship that existed between her and the rest of the protagonists, especially with Sarah Jessica Parker.
Now the continuation of the series will focus on the life and friendship of Carrie, played by Parker; Miranda, played by Cynthia Nixon, and Charlotte, played by Kristin Davis, 50.
