by Iconic for 27 years, this female character undergoes many criticisms by fans on social networks. His interpreter, who resumed this role in a series of series, defends him in the face of the treatment of male characters.
Iconic and avant-garde series of the 1990s and 2000s, this fiction was able to highlight charismatic and identifiable heroines while dusting down conversations on female sexuality and relationships to men.
Based on the anthology novel of the same title of Candace Bushnell, Sex & The City of Darren Star crossed out the portrait of four New York, thirty-year-old and single friends, which one of them wrote in her section where she dissected men-female relations.
Distributed from 1998 to 2004, this series highlighted four actresses, whose roles still stick to their skin: Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw), Kristin Davis (Charlotte York), Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes) and Kim Cattrall (Samantha Jones).
Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie) meets criticisms of “Sex & The City”
Even today, Sex & The City is a series that can be seen and sees with pleasure, even if it has taken a stroke of old on certain points. She has even had a revival in recent years with the new generation that has discovered fiction on streaming platforms and that shared her well -sized opinions and her modern look at the series.
And the one that makes the most costs of bad criticisms is none other than Carrie heroin, often described as “bad friend” or a “bad girlfriend” by certain Internet users. In a recent interview for HuffPost UKhis interpreter returned to the many criticisms that her emblematic character has suffered over the years.
Sarah Jessica Parker believes that this kind of criticism is often directed towards female characters, whether good or bad, more than male characters, even the most despicable, problematic and dangerous.
“I always find it interesting that [Carrie] So as much condemned, but a main male character in a series can be a murderer, and people love him “she said, “If a woman has a liaison, behaves badly or spends her money in an inconsiderate way […]she is condemned “.
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It is true that the anti-heroes of the large and especially the small screen have always been entitled to praise and compassion despite their actions, like Walter White (Breaking Bad), while a large male part of fans have always been virulent towards Anna Gunn (who embodied his wife Skyler). A hatred that is still present on social networks while the series has been over for 12 years.
The Serial Killers are also entitled to a feeling of fascination on the part of the public, for different reasons, but we are thinking in particular of Joe Goldberg in the You. His interpreter Penn Badgley was also very embarrassed by the admiration and comments of certain fans.
“Sex & The City” (and its suite) are still talking so much
Anyway, Sex & The City is one of the cuddly series that Internet users meet at leisure and comment on social networks, such as Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy or Desperate Housewives.
And that delights Sarah Jessica Parker. “I finally find that all these feelings are really fantastic”she explains, “This kind of connection and these strong, positive and negative feelings are really wonderful. In these moments, people are like captive of something, and I think it's perfectly normal”.
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The actress still recalls that “Small people sometimes make bad decisions [et] are insane in their judgments “. The comments do not change his opinion on his character who has of course “Make mistakes” Or “immaturity” Like any human being:
“I think that, fundamentally, Carrie is an extraordinarily honest and good person – an extremely devoted friend, generous in spirit and time, in all that she has to offer.”
This is why Sarah Jessica Parker did not hesitate to resume her cult role for and Just like that …, following sex & the city, whose third season is being broadcast on the Max platform.
The “Sex & The City” series is available on the Max platform.
