Sex and the City creator reveals why Sarah Jessica Parker was nothing like Carrie Bradshaw
Candace Bushnell, who created the original Sex and the City newspaper columns, said that the pair ran in very different circles
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Your support makes all the difference.The writer of the original Sex and the City newspaper columns that inspired the TV series has revealed that Sarah Jessica Parker was nothing like her on-screen alter ego, and that the pair were never close in reality.
Candace Bushnell, who was a newspaper sex columnist in Nineties New York and served as the inspiration for Parker’s character Carrie Bradshaw, told The Independent that they had little in common.
“I never was in touch with her,” she said. “She was married [to actor Matthew Broderick] the entire time we were filming. Her life is really the opposite of Carrie Bradshaw’s.
"She’s always been with a guy and is very family-orientated. I see her at parties and she’s very nice, but we have different circles.”
Bushnell also deflected criticism levelled at the series that it should have had a wider array of racial representation within its cast.
“Nobody is deliberately saying, ‘We’re going to cast this show all white’,” she said. “It doesn’t work like that. It’s just the time and the actresses who were available.”
She continued, “If somebody [had] said: ‘Hey, here’s an African-American or Hispanic or diverse person who’s right for this part’, nobody would say no.
"There’s not as much calculation in these things as people think. It was just really a reflection of the time.”
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