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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - Web posted at 9:03:56 GMT Sex is back in London! MEERA SELVALONDON - The 'Sex and the City' stars lit up a summer evening in London's Leicester Square for the world premiere of the cinematic sequel to their New York adventures, delighting fans with glamorous - and sometimes quirky - outfits that helped make the show an international hit. |
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Sarah Jessica Parker - who plays columnist Carrie Bradshaw - stole the show with her soaring Philip Treacy hat. She was joined by co-stars Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, known on screen as Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. They were eager to gloss over the reported problems that delayed the film's production - and chat instead of the boost the series has given their careers. "Professionally it's been the best 10 years of my life. I wouldn't have wanted to have done it any differently with any different women or any different men. So it's been glorious," Parker said. All were dressed in the designer clothes that made the series about sex and shopping such a huge fashion industry hit. Parker's hat, bearing flowers, grasses and a butterfly, was complemented by a pale green dress by Alexander McQueen - an outfit Carrie would have loved. Cattrall wore a red Vivienne Westwood dress and Nixon was in a floor-length black pleated Calvin Klein gown. Davis wore a more modest vintage fuschia dress. There had been some controversy over the decision to hold the premiere in London rather than New York, the city showcased so beautifully in the series. But Nixon said Monday's premiere was just a build-up to the main event. "We're having a kind of smallish premiere here (and) we're having a smallish premiere in Berlin. We're building to the New York premiere which is enormous and happens just before the film opens worldwide," she said. The television series that introduced viewers to the four women and their complicated love affairs ran from 1999 to 2004 and gained a huge worldwide audience. "It's been amazing, it really,really makes me think I've been touched with a golden wand, because we went off the air four years ago and our audience has not decreased, it's increased, and that's really a phenomenon, we are not making any new episodes," Cattrall said. "So I guess tonight is really the fulfilment of a lot of people's dreams." The film begins in the present, with all the characters older and more thoughtful than their younger selves. Carrie, now in her early 40s, is a contributing editor to Vogue and a best-selling author. She's also got more money, and she's got Mr Big, the man she spent most of the television series chasing. David Eigenberg plays Miranda's down-to-earth husband Steve, Chris Noth reprises his role as Carrie's Mr Big, Evan Handler plays Charlotte's dependable husband Harry, and Jason Lewis makes a showing as Samantha's actor boyfriend, Smith. Michael Patrick King, who directed and wrote the film and co-produced it with Parker, brought in Jennifer Hudson, the 26-year-old Oscar winner from 'Dreamgirls', to play Carrie's tech-savvy assistant. The TV series was based on semi-autobiographical columns written by Candace Bushnell for the New York Observer. The film goes on general release in Britain on May 28. Nampa-AP |
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