{"id":56601,"date":"2018-11-21T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=56601"},"modified":"2018-11-21T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:08:14","slug":"sex-city-director-details-kim-cattrall-drama-tension-began-parity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=56601","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sex and the City\u2019 Director Details Kim Cattrall Drama, Tension Began Over Parity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSex and the City\u201d executive producer Michael Patrick King recently appeared on the \u201cOrigins\u201d podcast and spoke candidly about the drama between Kim Cattrall and her co-stars. King, who also wrote and directed several episodes and the feature films, says tension between the cast became obvious early on in the show\u2019s run. \u201cSex and the City\u201d was designed and marketed from the beginning around Sarah Jessica Parker, who was the biggest name of the four central cast members after making a career as a movie star.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe show doesn\u2019t exist if Sarah Jessica wasn\u2019t the blonde star of the show, that\u2019s number one,\u201d King told \u201cOrigins\u201d host James Andrew Miller. \u201cKim was not at the height of her career, Kristin was under her in terms of notability, Cynthia was a theater actress and their contracts reflected that status.\u201d<\/p>\n

King said the initial parity between Parker and Cattrall is what drove a wedge between the actresses, one that was driven by Cattrall. \u201cAs the show progressed, the characters, everybody grew, it became a family,\u201d King said. \u201cKristin, Cynthia, and Sarah Jessica became one group, and Kim never joined mentally. Kristin and Cynthia went in the light, they became those two ladies, they understood it was Sarah Jessica\u2019s name \u2014 look at the posters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cattrall never got comfortable playing support to Parker, King explained. As \u201cSex and the City\u201d became a flagship series for HBO, Cattrall allegedly took issue with the fact Parker remained the selling point of the series\u2019 marketing despite the character of Samantha\u2019s growing popularity.<\/p>\n

\u201cKim fought and said, \u2018I\u2019m everyone\u2019s favorite,’\u201d King said. \u201cSarah Jessica said, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s why the show worked, you were certain people\u2019s favorites, they loved you. Certain people loved Kristin and people liked Cynthia but you were the favorite and that\u2019s why the show worked. That doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re being punished.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Parker\u2019s] name was contractually, legally, righteously, the only name on the poster due to the fact that she was a movie star in 1998 when the series started and she did a leap to do a show about sex on [HBO], the channel that did the fights and it doesn\u2019t matter how popular you are,\u201d King continued. \u201cI guess for Kim it didn\u2019t matter how much the raise became if there was never parity, but there was never going to be parity.\u201d<\/p>\n

King maintained the making of \u201cSex and the City\u201d was a joy for nearly everyone involved, which is why he still doesn\u2019t understand Cattrall\u2019s \u201crevisionist history\u201d of how the show\u2019s cast and producers treated her.<\/p>\n

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