‘Sex and the City’ creator Candace Bushnell says TV adaptation was ‘not very feminist’
By PTI
NEW YORK: Candace Bushnell, whose novel “Sex and the City” impressed the favored HBO sequence, says the present was meant to be for “entertainment” and never function a information for ladies to dwell by.
The author additionally addressed a widely known however much less mentioned incontrovertible fact that the small display screen adaptation was “not very feminist at the end”.
“We never talk about this, but that’s something that women need to think about: You can do a lot less…when you have to rely on a man. The TV show and the message were not very feminist at the end. But that’s TV. That’s entertainment. That’s why people should not base their lives on a TV show,” Bushnell informed New York Post in an interview.
“Sex and the City”, created by Darren Star, was primarily based on a novel of the identical title by Bushnell and ran from 1998 to 2004 on HBO.
The movie variations have been launched in theatres in 2008 and 2010, respectively.
The guide itself began as a confessional relationship column that ran within the New York Observer from 1994 to 1996.
Bushnell additionally dispelled the glorified thought of ‘Mr Big’ — the now-famous archetype of the elusive, engaging and profitable metropolitan man, performed by Chris Noth within the franchise, who’s later proven married to column author and one of many 4 protagonists Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker).
“The reality is, finding a guy is maybe not your best economic choice in the long term. Men can be very dangerous to women in a lot of different ways,” the creator mentioned.
Now, HBO is bringing again solid members Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis from the unique sequence for a brand new 10-episode revival sequence of “Sex and the City” which is able to comply with the life and friendship of the trio of their 50s.
Kim Cattrall, who famously performed Samantha Jones within the unique “Sex and the City” sequence and the 2 movie variations, will not be returning for the brand new present.
Bushnell defended Cattrall’s determination to go.
“I absolutely love Kim. But it seems she wants to do other things, and she doesn’t feel like doing the show. Maybe she doesn’t want to be that character anymore,” she added.
The creator mentioned although she would not “know anything about what the new show’s going to be about”, she is trying ahead to it.
“HBO’s going to make money on it. They’re going to exploit it as much as they can. They rebooted ‘Gossip Girl’. If they didn’t reboot ‘Sex and the City’, it would be really strange.”
Bushnell is presently getting ready to star in her one-woman, off-Broadway present, “Is There Still Sex in the City?”, primarily based on her newest guide.
