With how their lives look now, no wonder they agreed to reunite

The term “curse” in the context of television success sounds absurd, but history provides quite a few actors who will swear that this is a serious matter. Series that became a myth created characters that surpassed the actors who played them, but when the celebration ended and the series went down, they found it difficult to shed the character in the eyes of viewers, producers, cast and sometimes even in their own eyes, and move on to new characters.

Carrie Bradshaw is without a doubt the character most identified with “Sex and the City” and the one who made the most money from it. Although Sarah Jessica Parker began her acting career as a child and starred in several romantic romantic comedies, Carrie was undoubtedly the character who launched her career. At the time, she matched Bull to the role she was cast in (“a girl who feels very confident about her sexuality but will not yet cross the screen as a beach,” as Darren Starr, creator of the series, put it). Parker has garnered much media acclaim during the years the series aired, and also shortly thereafter.

Undoubtedly, of the four stars of “Sex and the City,” Parker had a particularly hard time getting out of her character in the series. When the light went out after six seasons, Parker starred in several negligible films and starred in the semi-failed series “Divorce,” but failed to really re-energize her career. At one point she realized that if she could not beat her it was better to join her, and went for one of the salient features of her character – her fondness, not to mention her obsession, with shoes. After designing a model for the “Manolo Blahnik” brand, she set up a line of shoes in her design called SJP. Last year, in the midst of the Corona wave, she even opened a shoe store in New York and promised that women would stop suffering from back pain as long as it was up to her, even when a cruel virus threatened the world. Parker herself, by the way, has repeatedly admitted that the years she spent on high heels made a name for herself in her feet, including bone displacement, as the doctor who treated her made clear to her.

The media’s U-turn in relation to the character of Carrie Bradshaw took place a few years after the series’ demise, with the cultural change brought with it by the second decade of the 2000s. Then came the realization that Bradshaw had not really realized any ambition during the six seasons of “Sex and the City,” if one does not consider as an achievement the relinquishment of all the right men who happened to be in her way. The two sequels to “Sex and the City” reinforced this perception, and Bradshaw began to be perceived as an unsympathetic character as her shortcomings – egoism in the guise of emotional flooding, infidelity, childishness and inability to deal with criticism – overshadow the benefits of wearing a 35-year-old tutu skirt.

In 2013 “Glamor” magazine called her “the most horrible character in the series”. ABC’s morning show later determined that she was one of the ten worst characters of the past two decades, calling her a “righteous New York snob” based on the movie “Sex and the City and the Great” that proved she was incapable of personal development as a person. Cosmopolitan magazine published an article entitled “19 times Carrie Bradshaw was a terrible and horrible man”, such as the time she expected Charlotte to sell her engagement ring so she could buy the apartment she lived in (although two minutes earlier she must have bought a pair of Manolo Blnik owns a small country in the Middle East). The author summed up the article in the sentence: “Thank God for the other three.”

Parker herself contributes to maintaining her identity with Bradshaw through a wardrobe that often looks like she’s a client of the “Sex and the City” set, and in an interview with CBS ‘Morning Show she admitted that she and Carrie have a lot in common, especially childish romance, and revealed that people still turn to her for behavioral advice. On dates. So folks – let’s stop this chain. Bradshaw is the worst date in the world, you better stay home.

And in a sharp transition to the big beneficiary of “Sex and the City”, Cynthia Nixon – Miranda Hobbes for you. By the time she reached the status of a cosmopolitan sip with her three girlfriends, Nixon’s career focused primarily on Broadway theater, with occasional forays into film and television. Nixon herself summed up her casting for “Sex and the City” in an article she wrote for Refinery29, which focuses on young women, 20 years after the series aired: “When ‘Sex and the City’ aired,” Nixon wrote, “one thing was clear: no one wanted to be Miranda. There was nothing glamorous about her. Her suits were stiff and banal, her jewelry was cheap, and while she was passionate, she was also judgmental and stubborn. She was very professional, but ‘Pan’ was not her middle name. That he was ‘Miranda’ was actually saying he was ruining the fun. ” These are the words Nixon wrote when she faced one of the most significant challenges in her life, here is her confrontation over the role of New York State governor three years ago.

While Miranda started out as the least flowing character on the set, the years have done Nixon only good. When she left “Sex and the City” she continued her acting career in HBO series, movies and of course in the theater, but alongside all this a parallel channel was opened for her as a social activist. In 2004, Nixon, who until then had been in a relationship with men, began a relationship with education activist Christine Marinoni, being exposed and nonchalant in her interviews about the change in her mid-life sexual orientation, and in directing her energy to LGBT activism. In 2008, she began In the struggle to keep a school in her neighborhood that was under threat of closure, she claimed the reason for the closure was the large number of students who came from African-American families in a neighborhood that “became increasingly white and increasingly affluent.” During the heated debate, Nixon was referred to as “Brady’s mother.” The same is painted.

Nixon completed the cycle, as mentioned, when she ran for governor of New York State at age 50 plus, with a platform that focused on pay gaps and health insurance. Nixon received more than 30 percent of the vote, but lost to incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo. As part of the counter-campaign, Cuomo argued that Nixon is “just another familiar face,” and that running in the political field requires more than that. “If it’s enough to be famous to get into politics,” Cuomo argued, “I hope Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not going to join the race,” completely ignoring the fact that his then-president-elect won the presidency thanks to a reality series.

The past years and the social changes that have taken place in them, from MeToo to the economic awakening, have come closer to the standards of Miranda Hobbes and made her the most successful role model among the women in the series – as an investor in her career, unapologetic, completely independent and not averse to social norms. She invested her money in her son’s college fund, not in a pair of shoes, and she was positively described as “rolling her eyes in front of the New York Times wedding section.” “I’ve always loved her,” Nixon admits in an article she wrote at the time. “Not because she was the character I played, but because she was determined and smart and independent. People always asked me where the similarities were between me and Miranda, but to be honest, when the series started we did not have much in common. I was in a relationship, I always knew motherhood would be a central part of my life. And I was not the fearless gladiator that Miranda was. But at the end of the series, when I was asked the same question, I answered to my surprise that during the six seasons, Miranda and I got closer to each other. Nixon for governor, and I hope you all do the same. ”

Charlotte York was the conservative side of the square and was named “Sex and the City and the Big One” and her connection to the actress who played her, Kristin Davis, is a little more complex, like the character herself. Charlotte made the broadest personal move in the series, even though she started out as a relatively superficial character of the romantic woman who believes in a knight to get on the white horse. Although she was horrified by any talk of sex being laid on the table, she was the one who eventually met the knight, married him, broke up with him in grief and found the bald man of her life, the lawyer who represented her in the divorce. Charlotte also faced an inability to bring up children and adopted a little Chinese girl, long before China was this place from which viruses come.

In real life, Davis, just like Charlotte, owns Elizabeth Taylor Style Icon, which explains why she picked up here and there from the set some items from her character’s wardrobe. But as far as the knight is concerned – on or without the white horse – Davis remained single and her search for the perfect man (yet) did not bear fruit. Davis adopted two children and was even recruited under the circumstances of her life to direct a reality show (quite a failure, to be honest), in which one woman is interested in finding the man with whom she will have joint parenting – that is, a matchmaking program that skips straight to the next level.

Charlotte York has also been rejuvenated in the post-sex era “Sex and the City”, thanks to two fans of the series who set up the popular Instagram account Every Outfit on Sex and the City (EVERYOUTFITONSATC), which follows the heroines’ wardrobes. The two conceived the hashtag #WokeCharlotte, in which they return to problematic scenes in the series that sounded fine in the late 90s, but probably make duck skin for a variety of populations 20 years later, and rewrite them. Whenever one of the characters says something racist, offensive or just plain anti-feminist, Charlotte answers him according to the rules of political correctness. For example, when Carrie doubts the existence of bisexuals or claims she dreams of being an alcoholic, or when Samantha mimics the talk of blacks while wearing an afro wig, Charlotte yells and explains to them why it’s bad. What happens when Charlotte says something like that? So far.

A lovable last one, who despite her kindness will be absent from the expected reboot, is Samantha Jones played by Kim Cattle. Jones’ role was offered to Carroll five times until she agreed to take it after a meeting with Darren Starr. Jones undoubtedly plays a large part in the imprint left by “Sex and the City”, being a masterpiece of sexual and unapologetic feminism and also thanks to the fact that she was the oldest of the four and yet, the boldest among them. Carroll in the role of Jones undoubtedly brought a lot of power to the character, and managed to deepen it even when she went through experiences like multiple sexual partners on the one hand, or dealing with breast cancer on the other. Her apprehension of emotional devotion also gained its own space in the series and made her an even more interesting character.

Cattell came to the series with a respectable career behind her, and is apparently a dominant and blatant person in reality as well. Stories that have leaked from the press set show that the relationship between her and Parker has been murky since the first seasons. Cattle is probably also her wife and we have to thank for the genius of the third film in the “Sex and the City” franchise, following her refusal to attend one of these. Given the quality of the first two, Cattral should get flowers from Darren Starr and all concerned for preventing them from deteriorating the brand even more. The relationship between her and Parker, by the way, ran aground in public when the latter sent her public condolences over the death of her brother in unfortunate circumstances, and Cattler’s response was: “We are not friends and do not try to ride on me to promote your image.” The most Samantha there is.

Like Samantha, Cattrel’s name has been associated with countless novels, mostly with men younger than her (“I love young men,” she said in an interview seven years ago, “they are much more open to the idea of ​​an independent woman working with her own schedule than men my age”) . With her third husband, from whom she has also divorced in the meantime, Mark Levinson, she managed to write a book on the art of female orgasm, and like Jones, she apparently gave up the offspring chapter in her life. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper at the age of 56, she said in this context that “it is still inconceivable to me that it did not happen, and it still hurts me a little.”

The return of “Sex and the City” without Samantha is a big disappearance. Probably a factor as to why they’re doing so poorly is probably on vacation in the Caribbean or on a public relations trip in Europe, but the presence of Samantha, the independent, powerful, feminist and careerist who does not apologize for her sexuality, is needed no less than 20 years ago. We’ll miss you, Samantha Jones, be strong out there.