SARAH JESSICA PARKER Living with Carrie was exciting I've loved it all, her hits and her misses – it’s a life I've lived in parallel to my own I n the new chapter of Sex and the City, Carrie, Miran- da and Charlotte handle the complex realities of friendship, family and New York in their 50s. With Samantha still missing, we watched the second sea- son of the sequel And Just Like That... on HBO Max, and Sarah Jessica Parker certainly didn’t disappoint with her performances. She’s precisely the same Carrie that we’re accustomed to seeing. We begin this interview by asking her what it was like to return to Carrie’s shoes, to her wardrobe and her apartment... “It’s always a very happy, creative, often wonderful- ly challenging, interesting, joyful place to be. And the streets of New York have welcomed us back, and the many boroughs in which we've shot have been fantastic and new to us. It's been a really wonderful experience again.” The last series was crazy, with fans and pa- parazzi surrounding those outdoor shoots on the streets of New York. Was it like that again this time? “Oh, yes. Probably more so if you can imagine how many more people have phones with cameras. Especial- ly on certain streets that people are familiar with as lo- cations. As a producer, it's challenging to get all of our equipment on small streets in New York City, make space for our crew and still have room for pedestrians and on- lookers, who are certainly allowed to be there – but then try to explain to them that talking and flashes are forbid- den. When you're doing a long take and it's a really impor- tant scene, which involves cars and cranes and tears and cabs, and then somebody flashing it destroys the whole take. So, it's a much more intense experience now with cameras and phones. It's a different kind of attention.” How did Carrie recover from the events of season one? “She’s feeling hopeful and much more buoyant. I don't know that there's a shelf life or a period in which you're allowed to grieve. It's very different for different people. And, as Carrie says in one episode halfway through the season, she thought she had managed pretty well and gotten through that period. But I think grief creeps up on you and surfaces when you're not expecting it. On the whole, she is doing really well, and she’s happy and redis- covering what it means to be single in New York City af- ter a long relationship. Times are radically different than when she was last single. But it feels like a very happy season. It feels like a season that's got a lot of promise and discovery in it for everybody. Not just for Carrie, but for everybody.”
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