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Sarah Jessica Parker

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“Inarguably, a very specific group of women in a very specific time on an island called Manhattan. We have to kind of remember money and politics and economy. And I think it shut out a lot of equally interesting stories. When Michael and I started talking about doing this new chapter, it wasn't a mandate from the studio. It wasn't a conversation we had with anybody but ourselves, which is it's time to broaden the characters and representation and story. We knew without question that it would just simply make the show richer. Proven to be true, and it's not surprising that people thought it was performative or it. But it was simply what we wanted to do, mostly because we also knew who we wanted to play those roles and what they could be. And I think the second season has really been”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very white enough. Very white. I think we always recognize the show was born from a series of columns by Candace Bushnell. And then Darren bought the book and adapted it. And it was about...”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I don't consider the legacy unless I'm asked to. And I guess the best answer I can give is that it created A culture of friendship, and it paid attention to women and their most intimate, important, silly Absurd, interesting, worth exploring ideas. And that was simply new for television. And it was because we were at HBO where we could speak. that it was A new way of featuring women on television, large or screens, large or small, and that those stories. Connected and that there was an audience for those kinds of female driven stories. And we saw, I think, lots of evidence post our show. Yeah, it's been a lot of tim”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, yes, always I mean, I've tried to not really read about any of it. I've tried to not, I mean, it's not been a big, it's not been difficult. I don't tend to engage in any peripheral conversation if it's, you know, from an informed critic or from just social media. I don't think it's not productive for me personally. I mean, but you certainly glean that people have strong feelings.”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We've never shared about our specific experiences producing sex in the city and what that meant and how we did it and what it took and the time it asked and the effort involved and maybe we should do a podcast. You're there and I'm here. And I feel like people are reaching for their old friends. And from that grew the idea of, and just like that, and called my agent, we sort of share an agent, my agent of. 40 years. Kevin Uvane. And we offered this idea up. And then we just rang HBO and started talking with Casey. So I couldn't back out of it because it was something that I had brought. You brought to them. Yes.”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Doing it, having it. Yes, yes. Yes. No, it was my idea. I mean, Michael Patrick and I The sort of birth of this new chapter was that it was the latter part of March 2020. As billions of people were in their home trying to pass the time and not have arguments with children that you were coming to know in a new and different way, we started watching television and it's not something we actually has spent a lot of time doing and we started, we went through the entire canon of Mary Tyler Moore and then we moved on to Bob Newhart. And I recognize, as we all did, how much we missed our friends and how much we missed our work friends and leaving our home and having separate lives. And so I called Michael Patrick one day and I said, you know, I'm just wondering, you know”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exist. None of us exist. Couldn't say, well, that's had success, so therefore we might have this, or that's been problematic. And I think for me, you know, Darren's much more strategic than I've ever been. I never thought about success or failure. I just wanted to be part of something that was interesting to me. And I recognized early on that HBO was a home that wasn't concerned at all about what anybody else thought. And I think that's what Created the kind of programming that they believed in and fought for and committed themselves to. And so it didn't occur to me to ponder response. I just thought it was different and the voice was fresh and I'd never seen anything like it in a script or read anything like it. And I'd certainly never been asked to play a part like that.”
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“It's funny, I didn't think that the kind of provocation that the show might engender would be harmful. We didn't have a point of reference. I think that's the thing that I was not like it.”
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“And I was enormously relieved by that conversation. They hired a producer that I had worked with on Miami Rhapsody that I loved. And I walked the first day to work. It happened to be two blocks from my house. I know the time and that date and that location, and I never look back.”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was a pretty male dominated network at the time. It was Sports Heavy, which was great. And your home box office, your big movies was the station that I couldn't afford. At the time, it was a very tiny operation and the culture was super intimate. So I share with my agents my concerns, and we just talk to HBO and they said, listen, let's do the first season and see how you feel. And we don't have to answer to advertisers and we don't have programming schedule.”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For an actor like me who had spent some time on series, it felt limiting and it scared me that I wouldn't be able to do a play and then do an off-road replay in a small part in a film that was interesting and though it provided financial stability, it felt confining and HBO very kindly and generously allowed the conversation and said yes, we understand, but this is different. This is a different home and let's do the first season and then if it doesn't feel good.”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that I had ideas, sort of old-fashioned ideas about what television commitment meant. For the most part, most of us at that point had worked on conventional commercial television on the networks. And there was a seven-year contract. And you were beholden to honor that. And it felt...”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had been on Broadway in 1976. I did a production of a beautiful old play from the 50s called The Innocence, which was an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, Henry James Turn of the Screw And it was directed by Harold Pinter, starring Claire Bloom, and I played, you know, one of the two siblings that is wreaking havoc. And that was in 76. And then I came to New York. And then I did Annie. I did square pegs a few years after I left Annie. Yeah.”
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“Realize that either, nor do I understand those numbers because they're streaming numbers, but people try to explain that to me. Yeah, yeah, you need to understand that, just FYI. And also whether you realize this, and I saw you as Annie. You did? Yes, I saw you in the original cast when Andy McCarthy was in it. And then I saw you when you took over. Oh my gosh. Wow.”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We shot the first one on the lot at Disney. Oh, okay. I believe we may or may not have gone to Salem. To shoot some exteriors, but we shot a lot of exteriors in Burbank somewhere. And so, and it took what some 30 plus years for us to get back together again. Why did you do it again? I did it again because it seemed impossible to not do it again. Right, that's the cast. The yes was pretty simple. I mean, I spoke to Bet first and I said, you know, how are you feeling about that? And she's like, I want to do it. And I said, well, if you want to do it, I want to do it. And the hardest thing about it, honestly, was just scheduling. It was just like a bear to figure it all out. It did great, too. It did really well. Yeah.”
2023-06-29 · On with Kara Swisher · Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it has a sort of funny life or heartbeat because when that movie first came out, I remember in those days, you know, the head of the studio would ring you over the weekend. Scream and yell and celebration, or be trying to, you know, comfort you that it's a disaster. I never understood any of those numbers and I never cared. But I remember them calling me and being so thrilled and enthusiastic about the box office. And then I guess over time it sort of became like a disappointment at the box office, which I never really entirely understood, nor was I interested in investigating further. But it just had this life. It just kept growing and growing and growing. And it was hugely fun, that first movie. It was a very long shoot. I believe it was like about a six month shoot. People got sick.”
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