50 Surprising Things You Never Knew About 'Sex and the City'
, SJP explains her decision not to film any naked scenes throughout the show's six-season run: "I've always had one, and it's apropos of absolutely nothing. Some people have a perks list and they are legendary. They have to have white candles in their room. I don't have a crazy list like that. I've just always had [a no-nudity clause]."">
However, Bushnell admits the show often embellished her storylines. ">
back in the '90s, which was characterized as the fictional New York Star in the show. Star got away with only paying Bushnell $60,000 for the rights to her columns.">
"Viewers got so invested in the storyline of Carrie and Big that it became a bit like Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. They had become an iconic couple and women really related to it; they would say 'I found my Mr Big' or 'I just broke up with my Mr Big.' It became part of the lexicon," she explains. "And when people are making a TV show, it's show business, not show art, so at that point it was for the audience and we weren't thinking about what the impact would be 10 years later."">
" he confessed. "And Carrie needed to end up with New York. Mr. Big is New York. And it always made sense to me."">
to introduce a non-white love interest on the show. Back in 2003, Nixon admits her and Parker were the biggest advocates of wanting to improve the cast's diversity, stating it's "irresponsible." Nixon explains, "I'm a huge fan of the show, but if we had an area in which we really could use improvement, it's certainly this one."">
subtly reveals that in the original SATC script, the characters looked into the camera and talked straight to the viewers. It's unclear why they decided to drop this route, but we couldn't imagine it any other way. ">
SJP and the star of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live have been great friends ever since—even accompanying each other to The Met Gala throughout the years. ">
it was about love. "I don't think that empowerment was a word that was ever used once on our set, in a writer's room, among the female actors," Parker told Variety. ">
, who plays Aleksandr Petrovsky, is dubbed one of the greatest ballet dancers in history. Carrie meets Petrovsky in the final season and he swoops her away to Paris. ">
having to get a tetanus shot right after they finished. ">
back in 2010, six years after the series went off the air. Abu Dhabi authorities denied permission for the crew to film in the city after reading the script, which made them move the filming location to Morocco. ">
There actually is a real-life Mr. Big.