While watching the Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That… – and also rewatching some of the OG series – we got to thinking (see what we did there?) about some of the films the fab foursome starred in before, during and after filming SATC – which aired on our television screens from 1998 to 2004.
Inevitably, the actors playing Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha have become sort of synonymous with their on-screen characters in our cultural consciousness, thanks to – well – the show’s sheer popularity. Sarah Jessica Parker will always be Carrie Bradshaw to us; Cynthia Nixon is Miranda Hobbes; Kristin Davis is Charlotte York Goldenblatt; and Kim Cattrall – despite her absence from the show’s reboot – will always be Samantha Jones.
They’ve also done a fair amount of other television work, for instance Sarah Jessica Parker starring in Sharon Horgan’s fabulous series Divorce, Cynthia Nixon in The Gilded Age, and Kim Cattrall will playing a leading role in the upcoming How I Met Your Father.
But that doesn’t mean we should forget their movie star parts, of which – rest assured, there are many to mention. Cue a rather fabulous round-up.
First thing’s first: we’re not including the Sex and the City films, released in 2008 and 2010 respectively, because obviously that featured all four leading ladies back together again – so it’s cheating.
Anyway, there are some indisputable gems among these movie parts, including Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus (who else forgot?), Cynthia Nixon’s role playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion.
That said, there’s no polite way to put this – the Sex and the City cast have been in some absolutely atrocious movies… as for the biggest dud, it’s possibly a toss-up between the genuinely-verging-on-offensive The Babysitters, which Cynthia Nixon played a supporting role in, and Kim Cattrall’s stint in Baby Geniuses.
What some of these throwbacks do provide, however, is a bit of comedy…