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Sarah Jessica Parker Interview
Do you use the F-word in real life? I don't use it, no. You're a nonswearer? I use the S-word. Shit? Yes. In fact, I hesitate to tell you, but I think when I was stunned to hear I had won the Golden Globe, the first words out of my mouth--strangely enough for someone who doesn't use foul language--may have been, "Oh, shit." I was so shocked, and I could not believe what had happened. I just lost all sense and then said that. It's just so odd, because I don't tend to use unladylike language. You came into the show with a rule that you wouldn't do any nudity. Are you going to loosen that this season? No, I've never done nudity in my whole career. I certainly don't think now is the time to start. I don't think it's necessary for anything I've done, although I have absolutely no opinions against anyone who feels comfortable doing it. You've said you don't relate to the women in Sex and the City. Why is that? When I was single, my life was very different. It wasn't nearly as colorful, and it certainly wasn't as busy. I think my character [Carrie] has had a long career of dating. I didn't have that. I was in relationships for a long time, and that was it. It was a very different way of socializing. Though I know a lot of those people, and I see it, and I live in a city that is social, it's never something I did. Your single life wasn't colorful? What about dating JFK Jr., Nicolas Cage and Robert Downey Jr.? I guess it was from the outside, but I think when I was dating any of those people, it wasn't public, really. I've never been someone who attends a lot of parties, goes to a lot of premieres--an extrovert of sorts. So, although they were public people, there are obviously different degrees of being public people, some by choice and some by birth. They were more quiet relationships than they might appear. I think with any of those men I had the great pleasure of keeping company with, their desire also was for everything in their private life to be private, and I respected that. Is that why you and Matthew had a secret wedding ceremony? Yeah, we really didn't want it to be about strangers. We both come from pretty large families and we wanted our wedding to be for them. It just didn't feel appropriate to invite a photographer or any press to something that meant so much to us. Do you think you would have been swamped by media and paparazzi if they had known? Well, they did find out. It was a pretty raucous weekend prior to our wedding. Matthew and I had to move out of our house. We had to spend the night at a friend's house. There were people calling two days prior. They were trailing Matthew's friends--his friends who are civilians, not actors or people in the business at all. My family was reached by phone 48 hours prior to the wedding. And I got many, many phone calls from people with British accents telling me congratulations. There were people looking through our garbage. When we went to dinner, Matthew met me and said, "There are people in our garbage." So, it was out. There had been speculation. We don't flatter ourselves that we're that interesting; it must have been a slow news week. Are you anxious to have children? Not specifically, but I'm not uninterested, either. We just have to figure out a time when both of us are at home at the same time. Do you try to stagger work assignments? Is that even possible? We do, theoretically. We try to do that. But when an opportunity comes along that's very compelling, it's awfully hard to say no just because that's the idea you have in your mind. I try to be around, and I'm often able to go visit Matthew on his sets, and he comes to visit me. It's not a guarantee, but we do try. Doing the series wouldn't prevent you from getting pregnant, would it? Well, certainly there's no law that prevents it. But I recognize it wouldn't be great if my character were pregnant. And also, it's a fairly arduous and demanding schedule for me, so it wouldn't be terribly desirable for me to be pregnant while doing this filming. But I don't rule anything out; there's never a "right" time. It's not in our immediate plans, so we'll just see what happens. |
