Alright, I’ll be nice about Sarah Jessica Parker. I appreciate the fact that she does change it up a bit, that she’s not stuck in the Carrie Bradshaw-esque styling that made her famous. I actually think SJP looks nice with brown hair and I’m glad she’s not clinging to a blonde look. That’s refreshing. But I really, really hate her styling in the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. I hate the bangs/gringe (grown-out fringe). I hate this particular shade of brown. I hate that Bazaar Photoshopped the crap out of her face. And I really hate how cheap that purple silhouette cover looks. Anyway, you can read SJP’s Bazaar cover story here. Some highlights:
She loves Manhattan: “I love the city. I love everything it has to offer. I think that my children are so lucky to be raised here. I love the subway, I love hailing a cab, I love traffic and people and all of the possibilities. I believe in all of that still.”
Living in the West Village: “My husband and I are genuinely surprised that we feel more public now than we have ever felt. It’s social media. Of course, when you work in TV or film, there is a familiarity, so you reconcile that. But the show has been off the air a long time now…You’re not ever alone. You are not ever, ever, ever, ever alone.”
She’s polite: “Don’t let anyone say I am not polite. I am polite because most of the time people are polite to me.”
Responding to people on Instagram: “I will say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m really disappointed,’ or ‘Why do you follow me if you find me so objectionable?’ I have used that word a lot. I don’t want people to mistake my kindness for naïveté. I am no idiot, is what I am saying.”
Turning 50: “I think my directness came with getting older. Now I will say I won’t wear something. But if it’s for a character, I will still try on everything on the rack. I don’t ever think, ‘I’m going to push it, I’m going to be controversial, I’m going to be provocative.’ But I am independent.”
Her Met Gala look this year: “I researched that for a really frickin’ ass long time. I studied Chinese opera, ballet, theater, design, costume design. I studied tassels, poms-poms, silk… I think people forget there is a theme; it is a costume ball….My son was like, ‘Mom, you’re a meme.’ I didn’t know what a meme was!”
Whether there’s an archetypal New York Woman now: “There are so many! They come from all different walks of life. But no one has really told the story of women from Staten Island, aside from Working Girl, obviously. I want to know about women who work in the city and go home to Staten Island. That’s why I love the subway so much—I can see people, try to know them. I love travel too. I am always game to figure something out about somebody else.”
I do think that some people (myself included) confuse SJP’s politeness and positivity for twee-ness and a sort of forced naiveté at times. What I truly think is that for people like me (bitter, jaded cynics), SJP can only be taken in small doses. She’s fine in this interview, but if I had to spend a day with her, I would go absolutely mad.
Meanwhile, SJP chatted with the Today Show this week about the possibility of a third Sex & the City movie. She said, in part, “It remains a not-often-had conversation. I know — and [writer-director] Michael Patrick [King] knows well — the story we might tell, if we ever tell it. But the real truth, and I’m not being cagey, is we’ve not discussed a when.” It basically sounds like she would be up for it and Michael Patrick King knows what the story would be, but beyond that… no one is really interested. I certainly hope they don’t make another one.
Photos courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar.
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