Sarah Jessica Parker has opened up about what she has planned for the second installment of “Sex and The City” the movie.
“I think we want this one to be a romp,” Sarah Jessica told Billy Bush for Access Hollywood and “The Billy Bush Show.” “The last one, we got to tell a really mature sophisticated story that had real heartbreak in it and this time, I think we want a romp. We want our audience to have a massive romp.”
When fans last saw the “SATC” characters, Carrie had married her longtime love, Mr. Big, Miranda had reconciled with Steve, Charlotte had given birth to a new baby girl and after splitting with Smith, Samantha moved back to New York City and celebrated the big 5-0.
Sarah Jessica said “SATC” Executive Producer Michael Patrick King is currently “assembling a script.” And the two, who are in regular talks about the characters and storyline, are working on trying figure out how to bring such a “romp” into theaters in the current economic climate.
“How do we do that well? And how do we do that in a not lazy way? How do we address these economic times in a franchise that has a lot to do with luxury and labels?” the actress noted. “There is a lot that we have to think about because times are very different. So these are nice challenges, these are good challenges. I’m glad they’re not mine, they’re really Michael Patrick’s, but we certainly have conversations about them.”
While Sarah Jessica posed plenty of questions they’ll be thinking about for “SATC: 2,” she wasn’t ready to give Billy answers about where things were going for Carrie with Mr. Big.
“In a million years I’m not going to give you an indication,” she laughed. “I want someone to show up that first weekend.”
Though the opening of the movie is well over a year away, Sarah Jessica said she is already experiencing anxiety about opening weekend after the first “SATC” box office jaunt was so spectacular.
“I always feel like we have to get it right, I always feel anxious about it, I always feel anxious about the theoretical, I always feel anxious about peoples expectations, and the chatter and the prognosticating,” she said. “I just don’t see how to be human and not.”
From glitz to gloom Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis have all signed up to make the film sequel to Sex and the City, but one of its stars is fretting about how it will address the downturn.
Parker, who plays clothes-obsessed Carrie Bradshaw in the movie, says that the franchise has rather a lot to do with designer labels that many people simply can’t afford any more.
“There is a lot that we have to think about because times are very different,” she says, astutely.
The first film version of Sex and the City made £274 million worldwide so, happily, she doesn’t want to see the formula messed around with too much and certainly she doesn’t want it to be too downbeat. She senses that people are now in the mood for a “romp”.
The 43 year-old actress is said to be involved in negotiations to star in a Hollywood film opposite Hugh Grant, 48.
The as-yet-untitled film, to be directed by Marc Lawrence, who has written the screenplay, will involve the pair playing an estranged high-powered New York couple who witness a murder and are placed in a witness-protection programme in a small town in Wyoming.
It would be the third time that Grant has worked with Lawrence on a romantic comedy, after Music and Lyrics and Two Weeks Notice.
Source – Telegraph.co.uk
Sarah attended the Alexander Wang Fall 2009 during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Roseland Ballroom on February 14, 2009 in New York City.
GALLERY LINKS:
– Public Appearances > Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2009 – Alexander Wang – Front Row and Backstage
– Public Appearances > Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2009 – Alexander Wang – Polaroids
The 43-year-old star is happy to look her age and insists she isn’t interested in having cosmetic surgery.
She said: “It’s a real crucible because you feel daunted by your peers who somehow get younger and younger. People older than me have fewer lines than I do. And no, you’re not supposed to talk about it – you’re supposed to admire the fact that they look 22 even though they’re 58.”
The ‘Sex And The City’ actress would hate to be starting out as an actress now, claiming many young stars are constantly scrutinized.
She said: “I can’t imagine being 22 today and being thrust into public life. I wouldn’t have ended up off the rails, but I wouldn’t have been able to handle it the way that I’m able to today.”
Sarah also gave some advice to fledgling stars, urging them to treat people with respect if they want to succeed.
She explained to Harper’s Bazaar magazine: “Don’t surround yourself with bodyguards and SUVs, and return everything you are loaned in the shape in which you received it. Return jewellery, return bags, clean out the bags! Try to be kind. I know what it’s like to get up the courage to approach somebody, to tell them how much you admire them.”
Source – Yahoo! News
Sarah is on the cover of the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar. See an excerpt from the story below.
Why Don’t You? Sarah Jessica Parker
To celebrate the launch of her new fragrances, the actress takes a walk in Diana Vreeland’s (highly polished) shoes
Sarah Jessica Parker is not entirely sure when she became an acronym, an SJP. Watching her reconcile it, one might as well have called her ET, an LBD, or the IRS. “I just don’t have any real sense of my public persona,” she says with a what-are-ya-gonna-do shrug. “I don’t know what people think of me, if they think of me at all.”
Ah, but they do. The SJP is a mythical creature created in the mind’s eye of every girl who has ever watched SATC (Sex and the City, of course). She’s the glamorous everywoman who can skip around cobblestone streets in Manolos, wearing something highly impractical, and yet still brim, endlessly, with possibility. She’s someone who, if we had a bigger shoe budget, we all think we could be.
On an arctic winter day in New York, Sarah Jessica comes racing into Morandi, a fashion-Italian bistro in her West Village neighborhood, padded up in a parka and Ugg boots. “Oh, I should have dressed up for you, but the weather wouldn’t allow it,” she says, nodding at her ensemble of blue jeans, brown henley, and scarf as well as a chunky knit hat from her label, Bitten. Even when the skies are dark and dreary, Sarah Jessica is an optimist. “But,” she inquires in her singsong voice, “don’t you just love this city?”
When Sarah Jessica asks if you love this city, you kind of have to. She is New York’s Tinker Bell. After all, it was her voice that helped navigate the streets of Manhattan for millions of women for whom the city is still Neverland. The voice that articulated the questions so many of us were asking (whether or not it was cool to admit it).
It is fascinating, the fantasy that swirls around Sarah Jessica Parker. Few can resist its pull. Exhibit A: the scene in the MTV documentary on Britney Spears in which Britney is trying on a mini sweaterdress. She and her assistant agree that said outfit is very SJP. “[But] you’re Britney Spears,” the assistant says. “You’re not Sarah Jessica Parker.”
“I can be her for a day,” Britney replies.
“I heard about that,” Sarah Jessica says, clearly still computing. “God bless her. She can be whoever she wants to be for a day. We all can!”
GALLERY LINKS:
– Magazines > 2009 > Harper’s Bazaar (US) – March 2009
Break out the bubbly—the Sex and the City sequel is finally official!
I can exclusively reveal that all four stars—Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis—and writer-director Michael Patrick King have now signed their deals for another round of Carrie Bradshaw & Co.
“Everything was finalized yesterday afternoon,” a source reports.
Until now, everyone had agreed to do a sequel, but there were no contracts signed with New Line, the studio behind the megahit.
As it is, King has yet to write a script, but shooting will reportedly begin this summer with a release date sometime in summer 2010.
Reps for the stars and the studio did not immediately comment.
In its first weekend alone, Sex and the City opened with almost $58 million in ticket sales, reportedly making it the biggest R-rated comedy opener ever. Budget to make the movie? A cool $65 million.
Quick recap in case you were one of the few who missed it: When we last left Carrie, she had married Mr. Big even after he left her at the altar. Samantha and her young beau (Jason Lewis) split, while Miranda and Steve (David Eigenberg) patched things up after he cheated on her. Charlotte and Harry (Evan Handler) not only adopted a baby girl, but Charlotte gave birth to a second daughter.
So what should happen next? Let the suggestions begin!
UPDATE: SATC writer-director Michael Patrick King confirms the scoop! In an exclusive statement, King says, “I’m very excited to work with these amazing actresses again and would love to give everyone more information about the sequel…but I’m busy with my ‘Sex’ life.”
So, are you psyched or do you feel they should quit while ahead?
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Sarah and her husband Matthew Broderick attended “The American Plan” Broadway Opening Night on January 22, 2009.
GALLERY LINKS:
– Public Appearances > “The American Plan” Broadway Opening Night
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