Sex And The City And Us

TWENTY YEARS ON, A NEW BOOK DELVES DEEP INTO THE SHOW THAT CHANGED WOMEN

Two decades after Sex and the City first hit our screens, women (and men!) are still obsessed with the fab four – Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon). But there’s much more to these ladies and the actors who played them – and the writers and masterminds behind the cult TV series are revealing all in a behind-the-scenes book about the New York-centric show. Here, OK! brings you an exclusive extract from the new tome, Sex and the City and Us…

By the third season, Sex and the City’s writers and directors knew what viewers wanted, and they knew how to give it to them. Sometimes it was the impossibly luxe lifestyle. Sometimes it was the characters’ intimately embarrassing moments. Sometimes it was romance.

In a few magical moments, it was all three. As director Allen Coulter prepared to film the third-season finale in Central Park, he knew he had one of those on this afternoon in 2000. He saw it as his Howard Hawks moment: a picturesque romantic standoff between equals, a throwback screwball scene that was sexy, but not explicit. That is, if Hawks had been forced to shoot on location with paparazzi clicking through every scene, catching his every move, as scores of fans mobbed the periphery.