20 Things You Never Knew About Sex And The City
By PAUL MARTIN
1 CARRIE met Mr Big in the first ever episode of Sex And The City. They collided in the street, and he helped Carrie pick up the spilled contents of her purse, including a packet of condoms.
2 Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie) is a woman of many talents. She studied ballet with the Cincinnati Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and singing with the Metropolitan Opera.
3 The Magnolia Bakery on 401 Bleeker Street in New York became so popular after Miranda and Carrie stopped off there for a cupcake the store now has to employ a bouncer.
4 Sarah was once cast in a New York production of The Sound Of Music along with four of her siblings.
5 When Sarah hosted The 2000 MTV Movie Awards she changed into 15 different outfits throughout the show and had five stylists working for her.
6 Chris Noth (Mr Big) spent two years as an undergraduate at Marlboro College, in Vermont, USA, during which time he lived in the woods in a cabin he’d constructed himself.
7 Kim Cattrall (Samantha) used to date former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
8 Sarah previously dated actor, Robert Downey Jr and the late John F Kennedy Jr.
9 Kim and her third husband published a book entitled, Satisfaction: The Art Of The Female Orgasm. They have since split and Cattrall, 51, is now dating a man 22 years her junior – 29-year- old Canadian chef Alan Wyse.
10 Sarah discovered she was pregnant with her son David while filming the first episode of a new SATC series in 2002. Parker felt unwell and sent her assistant to get her a home pregnancy test.
11 Sarah has a clause in her contract stipulating she won’t do full nudity. That is why the audience never sees Carrie in anything less than underwear, whereas all the other lead characters have shown a lot more.
12 Mr Big’s first name John was not revealed until the last episode of the last series.
13 The trailer for the Sex And The City Movie shows his full name to be John James Preston. It is said to be an homage to Preston Sturges who is the director SATC producer Michael Patrick King most admires.
14 Victoria Beckham turned down a cameo role in the new movie. Producers wanted Posh to appear in a party scene with the four girls. She was too busy with rehearsals for the Spice Girls tour to take part.
15 The producers of the Sex And The City movie are so convinced it will be a hit they have already begun planning for a sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker is said to be keen to exercise the sequel option written into her contract.
16 Episode titles include Bay of Married Pigs, Four Women and a Funeral, Politically Erect, Are We Sluts? and Cock A Doodle Do!
17 Sarah met husb and Matthew Broderick in 1997 while he was directing her brother Timothy in a play.
18 Sarah Jessica worries about not being a good enough wife to Broderick. She once said: "I know he doesn’t have his laundry done, and that he hasn’t had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind."
19 Sarah is one of the world’s biggest Yankees fan attending as many games as possible.
20 Before her arrival on the hit US Dynasty-style saga Melrose Place, Kristin Davis (Charlotte) and a friend opened up a yoga studio.
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