On having it all: “It is the eternal conflict of every working woman. …The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I˘m at work. But it is hard.”
On being a new mom to twins Marion and Tabitha: “It˘s been amazing but complicated because of my current work schedule, which I have enormous regrets about.”
On raising her children: “I don˘t want my children to feel they have a sense of entitlement. I want them to work hard and be challenged.”
On long-term relationships: “When you are younger,
you get swept away by grand gestures. … When you have children and
years invested, it˘s much more complicated. It˘s the day-to-day stuff;
the kind of parent you are, the kind of partner you are. It˘s the
little and big things as opposed to just the big things.”
Sarah Jessica looks sexy and playful for December's Elle. At the moment the fashion icon is off in Morocco filming Sex and the City 2 and was also just named to President Obama's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
While she keeps her plate full of philanthropic and career projects, in
the magazine, she's all about her role as a mom, talking about her new
twin girls and what she loves about the experience.
10/2/09
This week, Entertainment Weekly goes behind the scenes to bring you a bevy of exclusive photos of your favorite stars at work on the set. From Tina Fey and Steve Carell taking over Times Square, to Jennifer Aniston enjoying an all-night ride on a New York City Subway, to director Peter Jackson frolicking with an umbrella, they�ve got an incredible collection of candid shots.But they�ve saved the best for first, as the entire package leads off with a ridiculously delightful Q&A with Did You Hear About the Morgans? stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant. During the candid chat, Grant explains his affection for his co-star, in his own unique way: �I�m very proud of liking her because I don�t like anyone. I�m also very proud of respecting her because there are very few people I respect. In New Mexico [where they were filming Morgans] I would watch Sex and the City every night and call her and say, �I love this episode!�� Speaking of Sex and the City, Parker laments all the extra attention that the paparazzi brings to every SATC shoot: �It drives me crazy. It�s just very hard to get a day�s work done and concentrate. But, you know, what are you gonna do?� Parker and Grant also reveal that when not shooting film on Morgans, the cast and crew were shooting something else � toy guns, in a friendly game of Assassin. Explains Parker: �You were given a Polaroid of the person you�re meant to kill and when you kill them you get the Polaroid of their intended victim. The first day at lunch Hugh killed three people within the first 10 minutes. And then I think you were killed.� Grant: �Yes, I was. It was an orgy of blood. She was killed by a [crew member] who used to be special ops in Afghanistan.�
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Hugh said:''For me it was for the script,for Sarah Jessica I think it was an opportunity to work with me''.Also Hugh told SJP:''We did a movie ages ago''.and she responded:''To be honest I forgot I did that movie''(the movie was 'Extreme Measures')
Also watch the clip with the beautiful co-stars being interviwed by EW and get a glimpse of their photshoot!!!!http://www.ew.com/ew/video/0,,20308587_20308583,00.html?bcpid=42412632001&bclid=42108093001&bctid=42210171001
For more with Parker and Grant, and to see candid shots of all your favorite stars on the set, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Friday, September 25. For more On The Set photos and videos, click here.
2/5/09
Everyone's favourite native New Yorker, Sarah Jessica Parker, graces the March 2009 cover of Harper's Bazaar US. On the cover she is wearing a stunning white Versace gown.In the magazine we see beautiful pics of SJ in D&G,YSL,Michael Kors and Salvador Ferragamo.You have the chance to see the whole interview in the site of the magazine(http://www.harpersbazaar.com/)Also in the site you will find a video made for SJP by her interviewer who says that SJP is the only fashion icon,the only woman who can pull of a Philip Tracy hat'and you know what?we believe her!
On the acronym, SJP: "I just don�t have any real sense of my public persona. I don�t know what people think of me, if they think of me at all."
On New Yorks Sex and the City bus tour: "Ah, yes, I run into it. There are times when it�s totally terrific, and there are times when I�m like, Oh, God, I�d better run in the other direction. Especially when I�m with my son."
Check out the rest of SJP�s interview when Harper�s Bazaar March 2009 hits newsstands on Feb. 17.
6/5/08
SJP in two months she was the cover of every fashion magazine in America and Europe.The only magazine that was out of that list was 'Marie Claire' but now as you see we are complete!!!
The ladies of Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis do Marie Claire’s(US,UK) July issue. They all look absolutely stunning in their flowery summer dresses! The issue is on newsstands next week!(source:www.cosmoguyonline.com)
6/1/08
After covers in Allure,New York,Enertainment Weekly,Vogue(her fourth!!),Glamour(in all Europe) and many other non-American magazines,SJP has a cover in UK's Marie Claire and she shares it with Kristin Davis..C;ick here to see the covers:
http://www.fadedyouthblog.com/33706/sjp-and-kristin-davis-do-uk-marie-claire/marie-claire-sex-city1/
http://www.fadedyouthblog.com/33706/sjp-and-kristin-davis-do-uk-marie-claire/marie-claire-sex-city3/
The SATC phenomenon is quite amazing. It's only in retrospect you realise there was a vacuum for the show. Because there had been women on TV, but they just weren't being intimate and sharing. And they were not examining sexual politics. I always think about that now but, at the time, I didn't see it like, 'The time has come.'
The show does receive an adverse reaction from men. I have them stop me and tell me they don't care for it. I had one stop me on the street. He was a very religious man, and he told me how much he didn't like the show. I asked if he'd ever seen it and he said, 'No!' You know, it's a democracy.
I'm not a great flier and I'm about to have to fly a nice amount. I just feel this anxiety as soon as I'm on the aeroplane and, in my head, I'm doing my best to keep it in the air, hold it up myself.
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.
If you have a child you're improvising with rules all day long and some of them are total lies. If I'm trying to get my five-year-old son, James Wilkie, to take a bath, I resort to things like, 'It's illegal not to.' Or I'll say, 'I'm required by law to put lotion on your rash. I'm sorry.' You do these things.
I've got nowhere near as many pairs of shoes as Carrie. It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me. I'm a huge fan so, to this day, I still kind of can't believe it.
Intolerance, small-mindedness and ignorant ideas make me angry, as well as the recent shift to a more base culture. People seem to enjoy vulgarity and that hasn't been good for us.
Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.
Kristin Davis compared being in SATC to being in The Beatles. She said she was George. I would never have made her George. George is definitely Cynthia [Nixon]. Kristin's Paul. She has the face. I'm John. Kim [Cattrall] is Ringo… she's sparkly, she has that beat. I have to call Kristin about this right now.
This is an edited version of the full interview, which appears in the July 2008 issue of Marie Claire.
1/16/08
Here is SJP's 'Allure' photoshoot for the mag's February issue.
Here is the hilights of the interview:
On her "unconventional" looks:
“For so long, I didn’t play the object of attention or affection. It wasn’t until LA Story that anyone cast me in a role that had my sexuality as a point of interest or focus or operation. I just wasn’t examined in the same way that a ‘pretty girl’ would be.”
On being asked to change her looks for the industry:
“There were some not-terribly-veiled conversations. Anything from as silly as plucking my eyebrows to getting my nose fixed. Nothing that stayed in my brain for very long.”
On men who prefer airbrushed women to real ones:
"My impression is that what they find sexy doesn't make them interesting or unusual or special.That makes them common.''
On being named the unsexiest woman alive by maxim mag:
"My instinct was that it felt personal. It was really about: 'We don't like her'.Who were the judges and critics? I would like to ask them: 'What exactly is it that you personally find not sexy about me?Is it my figure? Is it my brain that bothers you?That's the beauty of this country [America] - we can have different opinions and coexist and be amused by each other and hurt and offended."
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She says: "I've always been an actor. That's my job. I can be anything you want me to be....I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me." [source:bellasugar,popsugar]
-SJP
says her line won't land you in the poorhouse. "You're going to be able
to buy $200 worth of clothes, leave that store with six bags and be
able to pay your utilities and take your kids someplace special
for their birthday."
-Parker recalls what she wore on her first date with John F. Kennedy Jr.�a Katharine Hamnett
black cocktail dress. "It was very simple, actually," Parker says.
"Except that she let the zipper be the sort of outstanding feature.
Very late '80s."
-And believe it or not, Parker appears to be getting a bit prudish on us. She's not only against low-rise jeans, but she's sounding an alarm about Young Hollywood.
-Though Parker doesn't name names, I think we can figure out who she's referring to. "Look how celebrities are acting these days," she says. "People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar, and I find it awful."
For audio outtakes of the Parker interview, go to glamour.com.Saturday, January 27th, 2007
There is a small interview of Sarah in this week's Women's Day magazine.Scans will be added when the magazine comes out,for now here's a small part of the interview:
Your marriage to Matthew came under intense scrutiny after you won a Golden Globe award a few years ago and you forgot to thank him in your acceptance speech.
And just like that, according to the tabloids, our marriage was over. Meanwhile, Matthew couldn't have cared less. Never mind the fact that he didn't even know about it, because he was working … or that Matthew, by the way, had won some awards in the past and hadn't mentioned me. For some reason, that was acceptable. But for me to not thank him! Well, clearly, that made me a bitch, and also, clearly, a woman can't achieve anything without a man. And when Matthew was confronted outside our home by photographers shouting, "Is your marriage over?" he actually said, "Why would Sarah Jessica thank me for work she did with 200 other people?" Of course, nobody ever printed that, and the controversy just carried on. But here's what I say about it today: "Come back and check with me in 25 years and see who I'm married to. It will still be him."
During your courtship, you didn't hide the fact that you'd hoped Matthew would ask you to marry him.
Okay, here's what happened: I went on David Letterman's show and Dave said, "So you're dating Matthew Broderick. What's he like?" I said, "He's fantastic. He'd be perfect if he'd ask me to marry him." I was joking! But then, after that, I was seen as this wanton, desperate woman who was plotting and planning. I must have seemed like an old maid.
Having gown up without much money are you frugal now? How does your wealth affect you?
Well, I rarely splurge. But last year at Christmas time, I went shopping for myself. I can't remember the last time I did that. When I was doing Sex and the City, I just lived off the leftovers. But now I find myself actually needing clothes. So I went shopping, and it was fantastic! So much fun.
You don't feel guilty about that little spree, do you?
No. But it's funny because in the old days, like ten years ago when I would go shopping, I used to get a stomachache afterward. I would have such intense guilt. I would tell the salesperson beforehand, "Listen, I'll probably see you tomorrow because I'm going to bring all this back." They never believed me, but sure enough I would go back the next day and say "I couldn't sleep." After this recent spree, though, I slept fine. I guess that proves I really believe I've made it.
You've worked so much since James was born. Do you feel you get to spend enough time with him?
No. I mean, he's with me all the time — he's been with me every day on the set of the last two films I've done — and I think he feels very loved and safe. He knows how deeply we feel about him. But it's time for me to take a break. I would like not to work for at least four months. And I realise how lucky I am to have that option.
You do have a very enviable figure.
I want to say something about that, which is that no real woman should look to any woman in this industry as an example. It's simply not applicable because of the enormous number of advantages we have. Women in this country should be reminded to be healthy rather than to be a size zero. I'm not going to kid you: money changes everything. I'm fortunate enough to have things like a personal trainer and yoga classes. I realise that.
Although Sex And The City is known for raciness, you never did any nudity on the show.
And I basically never cursed either. I don't curse. And no, I never did nudity. I was always too afraid to take my clothes off! It's just not something I'm comfortable with.
So clearly you aren't the party girl that you portrayed on Sex And The City!
No, no! People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home. People think my husband, Matthew, is this quiet, retiring type, and it's actually the reverse. I'm at home, and Matthew loves going out to town. I understand why people identify me with Carrie so much — I was in their homes as Carrie for so long. But while I have great affection for her, I'm not her.
So now that you're officially a movie star, would you ever return to Broadway, which you love?
I will return to Broadway whenever they will have me. I've just finished three movies back-to-back and they were all great. And I will work hard to be worthy of more such opportunities. The past 20 years have been like a dream and I'll do whatever I can to make sure it doesn't end.
(To read the rest of the article go here:Woman's Day)
Friday,December 29th
In year-end countdown of Greek Marie Claire magazine,SJP's cover-November 2006[sold out] ranked 2 in ''the best selling cover of the year''/Also SJP is in the December cover of Greek magazine SOUL which is one of the coolest[and one of my personal favorites]magazines of Greece.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
