{"id":16480,"date":"2025-07-17T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16480\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:48:08","slug":"sarah-jessica-parker-says-kristin-davis-tells-her-about-carrie-fan-criticisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/16480\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Jessica Parker Says Kristin Davis Tells Her About Carrie Fan Criticisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Jessica Parker knows that her \u201cSex and the City\u201d and \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d heroine Carrie Bradshaw isn\u2019t always easy to like \u2013 but she doesn\u2019t really want to hear about it.<\/p>\n

Sitting with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers\u2019 \u201cLas Culturistas\u201d podcast<\/a> on Wednesday, the longtime executive producer and star said she knows the feverish fan takes exist about Carrie\u2019s at-times questionable behavior, adding that while she tries to stay ignorant to them, one co-star keeps her in the loop, for better or worse. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not privy to all of the chatter so I\u2019m just \u2014 Kristin Davis always keeps me posted in ways that sometimes I\u2019m like, \u2018You don\u2019t have to tell me that! I don\u2019t want to hear what anyone has to say,\u2019\u201d Parker said when talking through Carrie\u2019s missteps. \u201cPlus it doesn\u2019t help me. But I\u2019m thrilled that people have feelings! Like, how great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if she judges Carrie for cheating on Aidan in the original HBO comedy series, for instance, Bradshaw quipped: \u201cLike men have been doing forever, as leads on shows and in movies and people are like, \u2018I love him!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI mean, she\u2019s a fictional character. I think people make mistakes and smart people do stupid things and they use poor judgment and they fall really short often. The best of us fall short,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

When Rogers accused Chris Noth\u2019s notorious \u201cBig\u201d character \u2013 who Carrie eventually marries in the multi-series and two-film franchise \u2013 of \u201cnarcissistic abuse,\u201d Parker admitted that \u201cthose are new words for me,\u201d but \u201cif Carrie Bradshaw were somebody who was absolutely reliable to resist in that instance the temptation of Big \u2026 then I\u2019m not entirely sure \u2014 what is the show?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is this person if she is only making really solid, predictable choices?\u201d Parker questioned, adding that the show is \u201cnot a recipe for all of us to live by. That\u2019s what makes it. It\u2019s like there\u2019s an altered state to \u2018Sex and the City.\u2019 It\u2019s not entirely, the emotional life is rooted in truth, but its existence has always felt to me like slightly technicolor, slightly altered. Like, the city looks like this, and the clothes look like this. There\u2019s a time warp, like, time suspends and you can be with people you love for long periods of time, which does not exist for all of us, no matter how much we love our friends. And love has this sort of, like, extra dose of some kind of adrenaline-fueled \u2026 You don\u2019t spend time on HBO being perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Parker then cited one of her \u201cfavorite characters in the world\u201d who was on the prestige cable network at the same time as Carrie during \u201cSex and the City\u2019s\u201d original run: Tony Soprano of \u201cThe Sopranos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not a man who made great choices. But it\u2019s curious how many people did not interrogate those same things about him, nor should they have because it was just beautiful writing and it brought us into the life of someone we wouldn\u2019t normally feel such compassion for,\u201d Parker reflected. \u201cSo I\u2019m not comparing, I\u2019m just saying it\u2019s curious how little tolerance we have for a woman falling short, let\u2019s just say.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time during Parker\u2019s Season 3 press run for \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d that she\u2019s defended Carrie from fans who might question her life choices. On a June episode of Alex Cooper\u2019s \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast<\/a>, she applauded the writing of the character for stirring such division in the fanbase. <\/p>\n

\u201cI admired that she was scrappy,\u201d she said of Carrie. \u201cShe was a little survivor. She had instincts to keep her head [up], not always making smart choices and falling short of being the best friend or the best girlfriend or her best self, but I also was very happy that they were writing her that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d Season 3 is currently streaming on HBO Max. \u201cLas Culturistas\u201d<\/a> is an iHeartPodcast and Will Ferrell\u2019s Big Money Players Network production.<\/p>\n

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