I am decidedly not the target audience for this film, but one can't deny its popularity. So I'll refer you to the brand new Sex and the City trailer here on Fancast and the actual fans of the show: gay men. LOGO has an interview with the four lovely large-living ladies: Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.
Choice dish:
Kim Cattrall: Early last year Chris Albrecht [the head honcho from HBO] called me when I was just about to go to Dublin, Ireland to do a thing for ITV. He told me, “I was in a movie theatre watching The Devil Wears Prada, it was absolutely packed and I looked around and realized, ‘We created this audience.’ And I think we really need to do the film.”
Cynthia Nixon: It was wild. My first day was the second or third day of filming, when all four of us were working for the first time. We were back in these outfits, and these heels again. And we'd been away from it, and now there were 200 people and photographers on the street watching, which was very new for us. And we had to re-learn how to walk down the street and walk in unison and not teeter over in our heels, but it kind of felt great. What it felt like was a four-headed eight-legged organism.
Sarah Jessica Parker: The movie doesn’t pick up right where the series ended, it's a few years later, which makes everything—well, in terms of Carrie’s life specifically, there's much more at stake. There’s a lot more time invested in her relationship with Big, and obviously in her friendships, her career and what she thinks is the destination point in her life.
The story—which is like the whole series—is about friendship and growing up and the decisions we make and the triumphs. And it's about the massive disappointment and the mistakes, and what you learn and what you don’t learn when you should learn. A lot of this movie is going to be surprising to people. This is a grown-up movie.
Things happen in this movie that are very… Basically, it's about the despair you feel when you’re 20 versus the despair you feel or the loss you feel when you’re 40, and they are vastly different. And the movie really addresses it, and it really looks at how important your friendships are.
The movie is just so packed with stuff. And something major happens that fundamentally changes who Carrie is. She’s a new person in a lot of ways in this movie, because she finds herself at the crucible for the first time. Everything is different.
Kristin Davis: When people started saying, “They’re really gay men,” we were like, “Wait a minute! That’s a little far-fetched.” I wasn’t trying to play a gay man. But when something hits, people project a lot and at a certain point, you go, “They're going to say what they are going to say.” And you just go with it.
