Why Kim Cattrall and Samantha “won” over Sarah Jessica Parker and Carrie

It is a rather common mistake to confuse the character with the actor who plays him and, in this, Sarah Jessica Parker it is second to none. She despite her having acted in dozens of films, including Footloose, Hocus pocus, Ed Wood And The First Wives Clubsince when Sex and the City came into her life it’s like Carrie Bradshaw has taken over his body preventing fans from thinking that she, Sarah Jessica, had different tastes and attitudes than that girl who walks around Manhattan with a tulle skirt and a pack of cigarettes hidden in her purse. In the years following the series’ exploits, Parker has tried in a thousand ways to carve out a different role to demonstrate to the public that he is also something else, but it never succeeded. Despite romantic comedies like What happened to the Morgans? ea series like Divorcesalso launched by HBO and with a protagonist diametrically opposed to the fashioness of Carrie, the actress has put her soul at peace: chances are he will never win a Golden Globe – came close right with Sex and the City – and which will never be taken too seriously by harsh critics who look at Hollywood with a mix of arrogance and arrogance.

Sarah Jessica Parker has realized that whatever she does, will almost always be remembered for Carrie Bradshaw, and it will be for this reason that in the last decade he has pleaded the cause of in every possible way bring the franchise back to life Sex and the Cityfirst in a third chapter at the cinema after the record takings of the first two and then a spin-off series that became reality in 2021 with And Just Like That, the revival that saw her literally step back into Carrie’s shoes showing her after 50, with lighter hair and the same fabulous wardrobe we enjoyed in the early 2000s. The actress, after all, is not stupid: she could have gone better in terms of career, of course, but also much worse, given that she is still associated with a project- Sex and the City – and to a character – Carrie Bradshaw – which the books related to the history of television will probably talk about for many more decades to come and which Parker herself exploited by founding a his shoe brand in the wake of her character’s obsession with heels. Where one of her surrendered to the evidence and the desire of the public to continue to see her as she always imagined, there is, however, another who rebelled against the system and did everything not to be sucked into her character: Kim Cattrall.

She too, just like Sarah Jessica Parker, was overwhelmed by Sex and the City and from the mask of Samantha Jones but, unlike my colleague, he decided not to indulge that wave but, rather, to fight it by strenuously opposing any attempt to bring his character back to life. After Sex and the City he did little cinema – he had already given in the eighties and nineties, acting in more than forty films – and a lot of television, declining himself in roles that were always different and far from Samantha’s exuberance and nymphomania, taking part in romantic and funny spin-offs as How I Met Your Father on Disney+ and to completely new projects like Glamorous on Netflix, the series halfway between The devil wears Prada And Ugly Betty which sees her, however, in the role of a boss who is anything but Mephistophelean like Miranda Priestly and Wilhelmina Slater. Although, at the end of the fair, also gave in to a cameo in the second season of And Just Like That – available on Sky and streaming on NOW -, Cattrall had the honesty to admit that he could no longer live in the shadow of a character who, according to him, has had his day. That’s why he always nixed the idea of ​​bringing back to life Sex and the City, as well as she always wanted to distance herself from her former colleagues, especially by Sarah Jessica Parker, who over the past few years has accused of megalomania and reckless tantrums. In short, at the end of the games, it seems that Kim Cattrall has seen us long: not only because the new episodes of the revival of Sex and the City they are not convincing the critics as in her debut, but also because it is much better to imagine Samantha in London having fun on the night of the Brexit vote rather than pining for her sentimental quarrels like Carrie and her friends.