It's hard to believe, but as many as 20 years have passed since the pilot episode of the legendary series Sex and the City aired.
The story of four different women of Balzac age, dreaming of happiness against the backdrop of the stone jungle of New York, has gained immense popularity, and her heroines have become role models for women around the world.
The series received positive reviews from critics and became the winner of many prestigious awards - among them 7 Emmy Awards, 8 Golden Globe Awards and 11 Film Actor Guild Awards. And even after so many years, fans of this series do not stop watching their favorite episodes.
We present 10 interesting facts about “Sex and the City”.
10. No nudity!
Unlike her co-partners, Sarah Jessica Parker, who played the role of Kerry, has never appeared before the audience in negligence for the entire duration of the series. In fact, this condition became one of the requirements of the actress, which even had to be included in the contract.
During bed scenes, Kerry usually appears on the screen in a luxurious underwear set. Many fans of the series have speculated that this is a hidden advertisement of famous brands of underwear. It turned out - to all blame for the natural shyness of Sarah Jessica.
9. Secret Christine Davis
Davis worried for a long time that the sharp and provocative topics that were raised in the series (and even his very name) would shock her loved ones, so she did not admit to her grandmother that she was playing in this series, and her parents insistently asked him not to watch.
However, a little later, her personal attitude changed, and she decided to give parents the opportunity to watch the series. And her father, a professor of psychology, became a true fan of the series, and even made references to him in his training course “Marriage and Sexuality”.
8. Fake cocktails and chilled food
All fans of the series know that its main characters are constantly drinking the Cosmopolitan cocktail, which by the way gained great popularity after the release of the series to the screen. But it turns out that the actress in the frame drank just tinted water in beautiful glasses.
Also, everyone remembers this huge number of brunches of friends during which they ate and shared their philosophical thoughts about life. Ed in the frame was real, and the girls had to eat it, despite the fact that very often it was served to them already cooled down.
7. In the footsteps of cult heroines
Few people know that now anyone can feel like a hero of the series. In New York, there is a special sightseeing tour of the iconic places of the series.
For fifty dollars you can visit restaurants, hotels and boutiques in which the events of one of the most watched series in the last twenty years took place.
6. Shoes - Kerry's main passion
According to the script of the film, the heroine of Sarah Jessica Parker loved shoes. On them, she lowered all the fees that she received from her literary activities. Therefore, on the set, the actress had to walk in heels during the whole shooting day, which sometimes lasted 18 hours!
5. Clips instead of earrings
Cynthia Nixon has not pierced ears. Therefore, those incredibly beautiful earrings that were on it in various episodes of the series are just clips. Sometimes costume designers liked certain earrings so much that they were brought to jewelers to remake their clips or create clips with the same design.
4. Script in the urn
Fans of the series in the role of writer Carrie Bradshaw find it difficult to imagine anyone other than Sarah Jessica Parker. Therefore, the fact that the very script that lifted the actress to the Olympus of popularity, she at first recklessly threw it into the urn, will seem incredible to many.
And for the fact that she nevertheless agreed to star in a cult series, we can thank the case of her brother Toby, who, after reading a few pages, assured his famous sister that this project will be very successful.
3. The famous dancer in the role of admirer Kerry
The outstanding Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who emigrated to the United States since 1972, also took part in the popular television series Sex and the City. Part of the filming of the series in which he appears in the frame took place in the Russian Samovar restaurant, well-known in the expat community, in which, according to the script, the character of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Petrovsky, dined with the main character of the series - Kerry Bradshaw.
In this episode, Baryshnikov played a Russian artist, who became Carrie's next hobby. And it is not surprising that the meeting of the heroes took place precisely in the “Russian Samovar”, because Mikhail Baryshnikov in real life is a co-owner of this institution, he even pronounces the phrase “Why do you think we are sitting in this restaurant?” But because it belongs to me! ”
2. Social Activities and Outside Love Cynthia Nixon
An avid careerist who has found her chosen one ideally suited for herself in the face of a not-so-ambitious man, while not succumbing to the strength of Miranda.
The real character of Cynthia Nixon, who played this role, and her personal life are significantly different from her on-screen heroine. For example, Cynthia is very responsible for social work and charity.
The actress assists the American Red Cross. Cynthia also brings up her children in respect for the values of humanism and humanity.
By the way, almost all fans of the series know that from her husband, the professor, the actress went to a woman with whom she was brought closer, similar interests: women met at a protest against the reduction in funding for public schools.
In 2011, Cynthia and Christine (that is the name of the new darling of the star of the series) had a son Max, whom the second gave birth. And a year later, women officially registered marriage.
1. Ballet tutu
Everything related to fashion and style in the series was verified to the smallest detail, because Carrie, as befits any fashion idol, always balanced on the verge of fashion and bad taste.
The outfit of the heroine Parker, which appears on the bus advertisement and the episode cutscene, the series stylist bought a white ballet tutu at some flea market for only $ 5.
This outfit in the end was very often used in various modifications in Carrie’s wardrobe, and in 2008 Alexander McQueen created a collection where most of the outfits were ballet tutus.
Thus, the style of the protagonist of “Sex and the City” created a revolution in the ideas of fashion and good taste that had developed at that time.