EVERYTHING You Don't Know About TV's BIGGEST Feud (Kim Cattrall V Sarah Jessica Parker)

Summary

The legendary TV show 'Sex and the City' is renowned not only for its iconic fashion and storytelling but also for the infamous feud between its stars, Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker. The transcript delves deep into the behind-the-scenes drama and how it impacted the show's continuity, especially with the production of spin-off series and films. From executive producer negotiations to public spats, the narrative covers all angles of this complex Hollywood rivalry. Despite publicly claiming their cordiality, tensions remained high, impacting films' productions and even the recent revival series.

Highlights

• The iconic series 'Sex and the City' is as famous for its wardrobe as its backstage drama 👗.
• Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker's feud impacted the show’s future and franchise 🔥.
• Cattrall’s demand for equal pay with Sarah Jessica Parker wasn’t met 💰.
• The original series faced criticism for its lack of diversity 🌈.
• 'And Just Like That' attempted to rejuvenate the series, but faced mixed reviews 📺.
• Kim Cattrall made a notable yet brief return in 'And Just Like That' season two finale ✨.

Key Takeaways

• Sex and the City was groundbreaking but also notorious for behind-the-scenes drama 🤔.
• Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker had a famous feud, impacting show dynamics 🚨.
• Cattrall sought equal pay with Parker, who held an executive producer role 🚀.
• Behind-the-scenes tensions were often masked by public relations strategies 😏.
• The revival series 'And Just Like That' brought old tensions and criticism back to light 🔄.
• Cattrall's return for a brief 'And Just Like That' cameo was highly publicized 🌟.
• The series struggles with changing cultural dynamics and previous criticism about diversity 💔.

Overview

'Sex and the City,' a cultural phenomenon from HBO, captivated audiences with its unabashed discussion of modern womanhood, sex, and friendship. However, underneath the glamorous exterior lies a tale of rivalry between lead actresses Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker. Their feud became legendary, overshadowing much of the show’s success, and influencing its subsequent films and the recent revival.

The conflict between Cattrall and Parker largely centered around issues of pay disparity and creative control. Parker, also an executive producer, had significant influence over the series, which fueled Cattrall's demands for equal compensation and recognition. Despite efforts to keep their professional facade intact, their icy relationship became a hot media topic and impacted the cast dynamics.

As the franchise expanded, the rivalry continued to loom large, especially with the launch of 'And Just Like That,' a revival met with both skepticism and nostalgia. The attempt to update the series with contemporary themes and a diverse cast has been met with mixed reviews, with Cattrall’s brief return adding a spark, but not enough to rekindle the original magic.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to "Sex and the City" Sex in the City was a massively popular show that debuted in 1998, quickly becoming a ratings success for HBO and dominating awards ceremonies. The franchise was extended with two movies and a continuation series. While the show is celebrated for numerous achievements, it is equally known for the infamous feud between its two leading stars. Despite fans' hopes, the cast's off-screen relationships were not as amiable as their on-screen friendships.
• 00:30 - 02:30: Cast Relationships and Feud The chapter titled 'Cast Relationships and Feud' explores the dynamics among the cast members of a popular show. Initially, the cast managed to maintain professional relationships in front of the camera. However, during the final season, tensions surfaced, particularly between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall, leading to rumors of a feud. As the series concluded, talks of a movie adaptation emerged, further entangling the stars in ongoing drama.
• 03:00 - 08:00: Negotiations and Executive Producer Credit The chapter titled 'Negotiations and Executive Producer Credit' delves into the conflicts and discussions around money, fame, and central figures of a show. The cast managed to agree on creating two movies, but issues rose to prominence during the planning for a third film. Tensions were notably high between Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker. Cattrall addressed her grievances publicly, including an appearance on Piers Morgan's show. The conflict has gained renewed attention with the launch of the continuation series 'And Just Like That.'
• 10:00 - 15:00: Series Impact and Cultural Influence The chapter "Series Impact and Cultural Influence" discusses the issues surrounding the revival of "Sex in the City" in the form of "And Just Like That." It highlights the backlash from both viewers and critics concerning various aspects of the show. One major point of contention was the introduction of the character Chay Diaz, which many fans felt epitomized the perceived failings of the revival, including unsatisfactory storylines, missing characters, and a certain sterility of the show's feel. The dissatisfaction with these aspects led the audience to question the direction and decisions made in the revival.
• 30:00 - 50:00: Pay Disparities and End of the Series This chapter delves into the origins and revival of the iconic show 'Sex and the City,' noting its basis on a book of the same name by Candice Bushnell. The book compiled Bushnell's columns written for the New York Observer, where she had initially worked as a freelance writer. These columns, published between 1994 and 1996, laid the groundwork for the show's creation. Discussion includes the eventual revival of the series and touches upon the context of pay disparities within the show.
• 50:00 - 70:00: The Movies: Production and Pay The chapter titled 'The Movies: Production and Pay' discusses the origin and adaptation of a book into a TV series. Initially, in 1996, the book 'Sex in the City' was published. Following its publication, discussions began about adapting the book into a TV series. The author, originally writing from a first-person perspective about her and her friends' experiences as single women in their 30s living in New York, transitioned to writing through the semi-autobiographical character of Carrie.
• 70:00 - 85:00: Failed Third Movie Attempt This chapter discusses the reasons behind the omission of certain columns from a book, which mainly stemmed from the author's desire to keep her romantic life private from her parents. The chapter highlights that the book focuses on the character Carrie and others, rather than the author's personal experiences. The character Mr. Big, central to the narrative, was based on Candace Bushnell's real-life romantic interest, Ron Galotti, a former publisher.
• 85:00 - 95:00: Kim Cattrall's Public Statements and the Aftermath This chapter discusses Kim Cattrall's public statements and their impact afterward. It begins by introducing some characters from the Sex and the City series, such as Samantha Jones, who is portrayed as a 40ish movie producer dating younger men, Charlotte York, an English TV journalist, and Miranda Hobbs, a cable TV executive.
• 95:30 - 100:00: Revival with "And Just Like That" The chapter titled 'Revival with "And Just Like That"' begins by discussing 'Diaries,' a novel about the adolescence of Carrie Bradshaw, which was adapted into a CW show. The sequel novel, 'Summer and the City,' is also mentioned. The focus shifts to the TV version of 'Sex and the City,' highlighting that the rights were acquired by Darren Star, known for 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place.' Initially, HBO was set to produce the series but approached it with caution.
• 100:00 - 115:00: Controversies and Accusations Against Chris Noth The chapter addresses the cultural and television landscape during the late 1990s, specifically related to the show 'Sex and the City'. Many critics believed that women didn't talk openly about sex, and there was backlash against the show for having 'sex' in its title. This period was a different time both culturally and in TV, with HBO not being the powerhouse it is known as today.
• 116:40 - 120:00: Reception of "And Just Like That" The chapter discusses the evolution of HBO's reputation from being known primarily for its fights to producing well-acclaimed shows. It highlights how 'Sex in the City' in 1998 and 'The Sopranos' in 1999 were pivotal in putting HBO on the map, transforming the TV landscape with their quality content. The narrative reflects on the changes in TV show production, contrasting the past limited selection of well-done shows with the current abundance of well-written programs.
• 120:00 - 135:00: Kim Cattrall's Return and Final Thoughts The chapter discusses the historical divide between television and movie stars, particularly highlighting the era of the 1990s when it was uncommon for movie stars to transition to television roles. The general trend of actors participating in both mediums in contemporary times is also mentioned, noting a shift from past practices.

EVERYTHING You Don't Know About TV's BIGGEST Feud (Kim Cattrall V Sarah Jessica Parker) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 sex in the city was a wildly popular show that audiences couldn't get enough of when it premiered in 1998 the series was a ratings hit for HBO dominated award shows and went on to produce two movies and a continuation series Sex In The City is known for many accolades but the show is also Infamous for its feud between its two biggest stars when the series launched everyone wanted to know what the cast relationships were like behind the scenes and many fans hoped the star s had a similar friendship to
• 00:30 - 01:00 that of their characters for the vast majority of the show The casts were able to remain on good terms in front of the cameras at least but during the show's final season cracks began to form between the cast and rumors swirled about a feud between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim catrell almost immediately after the series ended discussions of a movie began to circulate and from that point on the stars of Sex in the City have been entangled in a drama filled back and
• 01:00 - 01:30 forth centered around money notoriety and who really was the star of the show The casts were able to come to an agreement to produce two movies but when it came time to film a third the issues between Kim Katrell and Sarah Jessica Parker intensified with Kim catrell even at one point going on Pierce Morgan show to discuss her many problems with Sarah Jessica Parker in recent years the feud has become even more talked about due to the production of a Sex in the City continuation series and just like that
• 01:30 - 02:00 and unfortunately for the producers of unjust like that a cast Feud was not the only problem when it came to Reviving Sex in the City viewers and critics were angered by the show's storylines missing characters sterile feel and one character in particular Chay Diaz the introduction and focus on Chay Diaz to many fans felt like a representation of everything wrong with an just like that and this led them to ask should we
• 02:00 - 02:30 really have revived Sex in the City after all as most people will be aware Sex In The City the show actually originated from a book also titled Sex in the City by Candice bushnel and this book was a collection of Bushnell's columns that she'd written for the New York Observer bushnel got her column in the New York Observer after she'd worked for them as a freelance writer and the column ran from 1994 to 1996 and and in
• 02:30 - 03:00 96 her book was published also called Sex in the City and there then began the talks about making this book into a TV series also in 96 in the beginning bushnel wrote from a first-person perspective in the column about her and her friends and their dating lives as single women in their 30s living in New York she later changed from writing in the firstperson perspective to writing for the semi-autobiographical character she created of Carrie she says this was
• 03:00 - 03:30 primarily done because she didn't want her parents reading about her romantic life her book doesn't include any of the original columns that she wrote as her first person perspective they only focus on Carrie and a host of other characters Mr big was car's romantic interest and Mr Big was actually based on Ron galot who was the former publisher of GQ and talk and and who Candace bushnel dated
• 03:30 - 04:00 car's friends whose Antics were also included in the column book and later the show were Samantha Jones who's a 40ish movie producer who dated a lot of younger men Charlotte York who is an English TV journalist Miranda Hobbs a cable TV executive and Stanford blanch who was a gay screenwriter who was based on Bushnell's friend Clifford Street bushnel later went on to write other books based around the Sex and the City characters she did the book The Carrie
• 04:00 - 04:30 Diaries which was a novel about the adolescence of Carri Bradshaw and that was turned into a CW Show and she also did the sequel to that which was called Summer and the city so when it came to the TV version of Sex and the City the rights were actually acquired by Darren star the creator of Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place straight away the series was set to be produced by HBO but HBO was very cauti ious about the show
• 04:30 - 05:00 in general they said that women didn't speak this way and they absolutely hated that the show had sex in the title some important context also to keep in mind is that the show is being made in 1997 very early 1998 this was a totally different time culturally and tvwise to start with HBO was not the HBO that we're going to think of today with Brian Cox on the amazing show succession or
• 05:00 - 05:30 making very well done documentaries like about Elizabeth Holmes HBO was primarily known for fights at this time it really was Sex in the City in 1998 and The Sopranos in 1999 that put HBO on the map in fact TV and the TV landscape as a whole was completely different it isn't the way things are today where there are just these amazing well-written shows
• 05:30 - 06:00 that have big stars in them the vast majority of actors today will do both TV and film but it wasn't that way in the '90s during this time there was this big divide between TV stars and movie stars and TV stars might get lucky and be able to do movies but it was very rare that you would see a movie star doing TV that usually only happened if they couldn't get movie roles anymore or they did it
• 06:00 - 06:30 before they were a movie star Allah George Clooney in ER so when Darren star was casting sex in the city and he wanted Sarah Jessica Parker a movie star for the lead role of Carrie Bradshaw Sarah Jessica Parker had a lot of Leverage well she did after she decided to do the role as initially she passed on it and it was only after her team and her husband Matthew brck or her now husband Matthew brck convinced her that there was something great about the
• 06:30 - 07:00 pilot script I know some people will say oh was she really a movie star but in the '90s she was still getting movie roles she was in movies like Mars Attacks and the First Wives Club and if you are still getting big movies you are still a movie star whether you're in massive A-list or not it was this divide at that time Sarah Jessica Parker originally started on Broadway she was
• 07:00 - 07:30 born the fourth of eight children in Ohio but she moved to New York at the age of 11 to pursue acting and her first Broadway production was The Little Match Girl In 1976 after Broadway she starred in the TV series Square pegs from 1982 to 83 and the next year she went on to get her breakout movie role in the 1984 Kevin Bacon movie Foot Loose the following year in 85 she starred in The Cult
• 07:30 - 08:00 favorite Girls Just Want to Have Fun and in 1991 she appeared in the critically acclaimed LA Story in 1993 she was in the movie that was massively massively popular or still is with Millennials Hocus Pocus so with all of these movies and a bunch of other projects Sarah Jessica Parker went in with her manager and was able to secure at that time one of definitely the top top deals on
• 08:00 - 08:30 television I think her contract that she had for Sex in the City seriously is not talked about enough for what a big deal it was especially when it comes to her executive producer credit Sarah and her team negotiated an amazing deal she got a great pay package and bump after the show went on she was the star and number one on the Ki as the lead of the show
• 08:30 - 09:00 and I have spoken about how important being number one on the call she is that is the spot that secures you are the star and she also was able to secure some other stuff with marketing guidelines about her name and her placement on posters and other merchandise and things like that everything I just mentioned was great it was a good strong contract especially considering it was going on to HBO which wasn't known for scripted shows and was
• 09:00 - 09:30 known for drawing a very small audience for any of the few scripted shows that it had the deal was especially strong too considering that there was all this caution around Sex in the City as a show because many many people did not think this show would work not just because of the title having sex in the name but also because they thought it would not be a show that would appeal to anyone least of all women but everything I've just mentioned pales in comparison to
• 09:30 - 10:00 what else Sarah Jessica Parker and her team were able to secure for her because by far the crowning Jewel in her contract was the executive producer credit and this is also the most lucrative thing that she secured with the second season she became an executive producer and I cannot explain how unheard of it is for an actor to become an executive producer after one season one season that's 12 episodes on
• 10:00 - 10:30 HBO in the '90s very very rare and executive producers they vary greatly on their sort of Demands and what they have to do and what power they have but one thing that's always involved when it comes to executive producers is money being an executive producer is usually where the big money is and especially if you're an actor and an executive producer you're basically being paid twice tce your fee once for your
• 10:30 - 11:00 episodes that you're appearing in as an actor and then a fee on top as an executive producer it's how someone like Ellen Pompeo was able to have this crazy $20 million deal because she then was an executive producer of Gray's Anatomy and for more about that I have a video on gry's Anatomy but Ellen Pompeo gry's Anatomy is in his 21st season and she's an executive producer now but she was a co-producer a producer she didn't just boom go in as an executive producer and
• 11:00 - 11:30 usually there'll be years where you have to kind of work your way up to it even shows that are on the CW you normally don't ever see one of them becoming a producer they they don't normally get executive producer on the CW that won't usually happen until the fifth 6th 7th Season unless it's a situation like Charmed which I also have a video on that and talk about this there where Alysa Milan and Holly Marie combes were
• 11:30 - 12:00 made producers because of the whole situation that went on with Shannon D and they wanted them to stay on the show well they were blackmailing holl romes to stay on the show but there's more about that in my Charmed video it's very unusual and it's very unusual unless you have been on the show as a lead for a long time I would have expected it maybe after five seasons but after one definitely unusual and Sarah Jessica Parker had a big payday for this too
• 12:00 - 12:30 movie and TV contracts especially for executive producers can be complicated and what I'm speaking about here is based on the executive producer contracts I have seen and also ones that I've spoken to friends of mine who are either lawyers in the industry or a really good friend of mine who's a lawyer for a big streaming Network and works with mainly movies but a couple of shows I honestly could do an entire video talking about executive producer
• 12:30 - 13:00 drama because even with the lward there is crazy stuff with what people do and how you can negotiate and how you can also display your power by things that you can do and stuff like that but there's also situations where actors can become executive producers because of their legacy or ties to a project which we'll talk about when we talk about and just like that being an ex itive producer obviously you get the pay bump
• 13:00 - 13:30 and you are involved in a lot of decisions there are some kind of vanity executive producer credits that it is just a pay bump in getting the credit hi guys editing Ash here I know very early in the video but I just wanted to mention one other type of executive producer and that is the executive producers who are to do with the rights to a character or a show and to explain this I think it's better to use an example and one of the first examples
• 13:30 - 14:00 that comes to my mind is Buffy the Vampire Slayer so The Buffy series that we all think of is a show that ran 97 to 2003 but there was originally a buffy movie in 1992 and the movie was directed by a woman her last name is kazui and her and her husband are very much uh Duo team and they own a big portion of the Buffy rights and Ang rights and so if you
• 14:00 - 14:30 watch any episode of Buffy they are credited as executive producers and paid as executive producers even though they never stepped foot on the Buffy set they had really no involvement with the project no input on like storylines or characters or anything so that is just another kind of executive producer and someone that you know you might see them credited and think they have tons to do with the show but they don't so I just wanted to mention that as well and I will go into that more soon
• 14:30 - 15:00 because I promise the long promised Buffy the Vampire Slayer video is coming soon but for now back to past me but Sarah Jessica Parker was involved in a lot of decisions with the show and especially the two movies that came after the show and the series that's on now and just like that when the main Sex in the City cast were approached to do and just like that they actually were offered executive producer credits which happens a lot with these reboot Revival
• 15:00 - 15:30 shows the Legacy characters are often given an executive producer credit as a sweetener because none of them were made executive producers when the original show was on it was always just Sarah Jessica Parker so before we get into that and pay and everything I want to briefly give you a bit of a rundown on the main casts and who they all are all three of car's friends from C bushels Sex in the City column and book retained
• 15:30 - 16:00 their names for the show but their jobs and a lot of things about them were changed Charlotte York played by Kristen Davis is depicted as having a very conventional and privileged upbringing in Connecticut and she works at an art gallery and later a housewife she's the classic overachiever character she was prom queen and student body president went to Smith college and was in a sorority she's very much a hopeless
• 16:00 - 16:30 romantic and believes in true love and soulmate she's first married a few seasons into the show to Trey and later Harry who she is still with in and just like that and Harry and Charlotte have two daughters Lily and Rose Miranda Hobs is played by Cynthia Nixon who's a very high-powered career-driven lawyer she has a bit of a cynical Outlook sometimes and she actually went to Harvard Law School and and she's from Philadelphia
• 16:30 - 17:00 originally people argue about this all the time but she is probably Carrie's like closest friend who she at least confides in the most and Miranda is usually the practical person out of the four of them Miranda's most significant relationship is with the bartender Steve who she originally has like a one night stand with Steve and Miranda are together for years and years and they have a son in the original show Brady
• 17:00 - 17:30 and when and just like that returns which it sounds so weird to say that show name in like a sentence but when the show comes back Miranda and Steve are still together but by the end of the first season they've split up and Miranda begins a relationship with sheay Diaz who's played by Sarah Ramirez and don't worry we'll we'll talk about Chay Diaz and this is why I was giving you a lot of information about executive producers because when and just like
• 17:30 - 18:00 that came on the air the main cast from the original show they had a lot of power and say in their storylines and in their characters and what was happening on the show because they now were executive producers and that was some of their stipulations for coming back and doing the show rounding out the forsome is Samantha Jones played by Kim Katrell she is depicted as a little bit older than the other women and she is a
• 18:00 - 18:30 businesswoman with a very successful career in PR she is confident strong outspoken and often refers to herself as a tri seexual and that she will try anything once many people describe Samantha as the sex in Sex in the City and she is definitely by far the person given the most graphic and intimate scenes and Sam in the first many seasons of the show
• 18:30 - 19:00 goes out with basically a different man every episode or every few episodes but towards the end of the show she gets involved with a younger actor who's named Jerry Smith Jared who she refers to as Smith and he's played by Jason Lewis Sarah Jessica Parker definitely was an actor who was very involved with the show was involved with the writing and making decisions with Darren star and the headwriter Michael Patrick King
• 19:00 - 19:30 Darren star did leave the show after the first couple of seasons and then that duty of running the show went to Michael Patrick King he is also responsible for the movies and the series that's on now and just like that anything I've ever heard about the behind the scenes of Sex in the City which I will talk a little bit more about later was that Sarah Jessica Parker was a good leader I've always heard good things about how she treated people on set knew all the crew
• 19:30 - 20:00 members names and treated them very nicely which trust me that is exceptionally rare some of the things that I could tell you about the lward cast members and what they said to crew and how they treated them yikes but sex in the city became an enormously successful show it was one of those shows that not only changed TV but it changed the culture I was in high school during the later seasons of Sex in the City and even after it aired it was a
• 20:00 - 20:30 huge deal all of my Straight friends absolutely loved it and I definitely watched the show but I was never super super into it but when Showtime released the lesbian version The L Word I was all over that and as anyone who has been a subscriber or viewer for a while probably knows I actually got my star on YouTube on my original Channel talking about the lward generation Q which is basically the lws version of and just
• 20:30 - 21:00 like that and they were probably of the same standards let's just say the show appealed to women and gay men of all ages but it was especially popular with women in their teens all the way through to their 50s I know a lot of teens probably weren't allowed to watch the show as when it came out it was very much looked at as an adult show and the title and things like like that when now
• 21:00 - 21:30 it might not be seen as as risque being in high school when the show came out it was very much a divide of whether you were allowed to watch the show or not I mean I went to boarding school and my parents let me watch Scream when I was like 10 because friends was my favorite show which to me is insane now thinking about my 10-year-old nephew saying to me oh I want to watch Scream because my favorite show is friends and Courtney Cox is in it like that lunacy but my
• 21:30 - 22:00 boarding school we literally used to have sex in the city nights and Nip Tuck nights one of our boarding house masters used to literally sit and watch Nip Tuck with us which is crazy to think about but when I moved to Tampa when I was 16 there were a lot of girls in my class that CU I went to an old girls school in Tampa The Academy of the Holy names for any Tampa viewers but there was a lot of people there at 16 that weren't allowed to watch it
• 22:00 - 22:30 and it seemed to appeal to those people even more because even though they didn't watch it it was such a cultural show at that time that they still followed like a lot of the fashion trends and had like the little name plate names and when we got to like senior year and everybody was 18 everybody was watching that show and even during college and afterwards even though the show ended it's still was being consumed so much and then it was
• 22:30 - 23:00 one of those shows especially that had kind of a second life after it aired because it got into more mainstream Network TV so audiences that didn't have access to HBO then started to consume it although it was a very watered down version because obviously they were allowed to do things on HBO and show things that they wouldn't on regular Network TV I think a lot of the appeal of Sex in the City was aspirational as
• 23:00 - 23:30 most people looked at Carrie Samantha Charlotte and Miranda as what they wanted to be for women who had a great friendship that didn't seem too too much work and they had these fancy expensive brunches handsome men that they could date every single week Cosmos on tap expensive clothes in their wardrobe designer shoes in their oven they were living in beautiful apartments in New York that seemed to cost about
• 23:30 - 24:00 $27 when sex in the city was airing there was a massive amount of celebrity guest stars I think the only show that was tied with it for the amount of bigname guest stars was Will and Grace when sex in the city was airing there were many things throughout its six seasons that appeared on the show that became massive in pop culture just because it appeared on Sex in the City this was a level of influencing that
• 24:00 - 24:30 hadn't really been seen before like yes there was always popular things on TV like I had a Rachel haircut too but this was just a different level it really was influencing before we had social media things like Manola blonic and lubaton red bottoms yes they were out there before and really expensive designer shoes that a lot of people had and knew about but the fact that you could walk
• 24:30 - 25:00 down the street and ask any woman from their teens to 50s by the time Sex in the City aired most people knew about red bottom shoes there was even things like cosmopolitans I mean I worked in a bar in college I probably made thousands of Cosmos and there always was this kind of I don't even know how to describe it but in a way you would see like friendship groups come in and they would all order Cosmos and you could see them
• 25:00 - 25:30 kind of even sometimes they'd say it they'd be like oh you know we're just like the Sex In The City girls so I tell you all that to explain how big this show was but it wasn't just a big show culturally and it wasn't just putting HBO on the map like we talked about earlier the show was also adored by people in the industry and it swept up at award shows as I mentioned the guest stars were huge they had everyone from Sarah Michelle Geller to to Lucy Lou Matthew mcconahay Heidi Clum Carrie
• 25:30 - 26:00 fiser Jerry halwell future Grace Anatomy Queen Shandra Wilson Bradley Cooper's first ever TV role was in Sex in the City it would take forever to go over all of the celebrity guest stars and it would take forever to go over all of the awards Sex in the City won as they swept up at award shows but just Emmy and Golden Globe wise for the emys the show won for outstanding comedy series in 2001 and for the final season in 2004
• 26:00 - 26:30 and also in that final year Sarah Jessica Parker won for leading actress and Cynthia Nixon won an Emmy for supporting actress both Kim catrell and Kristen Davis were nominated for Emmys that final Year too and every year previous Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim catrell were always nominated in leading and supporting actress and Cynthia Nixon also was in there every year except the first year Golden Globe wise they swept
• 26:30 - 27:00 the board even more the show won the Golden Globe for best TV series musical or comedy which I always think shows like this winning it's like the bear winning comedy it's always a weird category to put them in but it won for its second third and fourth season in 99 2000 and 2001 acting wise Sarah Jessica was nominated for every season of the show and she won four times which is
• 27:00 - 27:30 wild and three of them were in a row 992 2001 the same year that the show won three times in a row also Sarah Jessica won in 2003 and after season 1 the only year that Sarah Jessica Parker didn't win an Emmy or Golden Globe was 2002 and that Year Kim Katrell won her Golden Globe for best supporting actor in Her speech she spoke about Sarah
• 27:30 - 28:00 Jessica Parker and how grateful she was for Sex In The City the show and for her role as Samantha Jones after Kim Katra won her Golden Globe there were two more seasons of the show and while there's always been discussions about Kim and Sarah Jessica not getting on it really intensified these last two years because the media and tabloids and press were talking about these behind the-scenes issues so much the actresses began pushing this narrative that they were great friends and anything else was just
• 28:00 - 28:30 gossip nowadays actors who are accused of being in fuds with people will say oh no we all get on and try and spin this whole PR we're like family but as we all know when actors don't get on behind the scenes they will very much try and push this narrative that they are all friends and they all get along and it won't just be from the actors a lot of the time that push will come from the network and producers and the actor's team because
• 28:30 - 29:00 one of the worst things that can happen for an actor especially in TV where you're having to work with this person week after week year after year the worst thing is if you are known as difficult or that you don't get on with people because that can really stagnate your career there are a lot of actors that should have gone on to much bigger careers that were very talented they had maybe had a few breakthrough roles or they done a lot of stuff but it was
• 29:00 - 29:30 really their attitude and the way they behave behind the scenes that held them back and I'm not saying that everyone who's made it made it because they're a nightmare but there are cases where you just cross the wrong person or somebody is making a project where they really don't want any issues and if they have heard that you are someone that's going to make life difficult they are going to turn to someone else for that role I talked about the fact that Terry Hatcher
• 29:30 - 30:00 she had a lot of difficulty after Lois and Clark and the only reason that she ended up on Desperate Housewives is because they thought that she had changed and that was not the case and if you need more details about that I have a Desperate Housewives video and there's there's plenty of other people that I've spoken about and even on my original Channel where I mainly was talking about the lward I do promise that someday we
• 30:00 - 30:30 will do an lward video because there is no show on Earth that I know more about than the lward so that is the case a lot of the time so really it's not even the actors but their whole team their managers and the producers they're working with and the network they all fight to put out this narrative that oh no we're all friends and everything's great because their whole careers sometimes are on the line and there are many examples of feuds between actors
• 30:30 - 31:00 resulting in one of them losing their job I I keep using the LW as a reference but that was the case on the lws version of and just like that one of the the leads from the original show there was a issue between her and one of the new cast members and that new cast member did not see the end of the show because it always leaks it always comes out and obviously people it's interesting to read about those things so they become
• 31:00 - 31:30 very big stories and the last thing HBO or the producers want is that to be the most well-known thing about their show which today that is one very well-known thing about Sex In The City the rumors about issues behind the scenes continue to circulate through the penultimate season the fifth season and when it came to the final season things really started to intensify there also was a kind of growing thing in the fandom that
• 31:30 - 32:00 people didn't really like the direction of car's character in the last half of the show and people in general really like Samantha's character obviously certain fans preferred one of the four characters over the others but I think if you pulled a thousand Sex in the City fans many more of them would say Samantha was their favorite character over Carrie and so this just kind of threw a bit of gasoline on it as well
• 32:00 - 32:30 Kim catrell was doing a lot of the very graphic scenes on the show and there also was Cynthia Nixon doing a lot of those scenes whereas Sarah Jessica Parker had a known nudity clause in her contract so a lot of people pointed to this and said well she should be getting compensation for doing a lot more of these scenes even though it was like more a contract thing so when it came to the final season of the show people were really wondering why they weren't continuing was it about money was it
• 32:30 - 33:00 they were done with the project did HBO not want to continue which was hard for people to believe because the show was so popular but people were thinking it was because of these issues as I said Kim catral did speak fondly about Sarah Jessica Parker in her Golden Globe speech in 2002 but by 2004 when the show was concluding things were very much in a different place they actually weren't able B to even keep up appearances of
• 33:00 - 33:30 being friends anymore when they attended the emys for the final season of the show Sarah Jessica Parker Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis all sat together and Kim catrell sat with a different group she sat with Darren star who was the creator and who had left the show after the first season this ignited a lot of discussion about what was really going on behind the scenes of the show and Kim catrell spoke out about her grievances when it came to financial compensation
• 33:30 - 34:00 Kim catral said that she would not be returning for another season and that's why the show was ending and she said that the reason that she didn't want to return was because she wanted all four of the main cast members to receive the same financial compensation and the producers and HBO didn't agree with that for the last three seasons of Sex in the City Kim Cynthia and Kristen made $350,000 per episode the fifth season was
• 34:00 - 34:30 shortened to Eight Episodes but the final season was 20 episodes and each of them made $7 million for that final season Sarah Jessica Parker as I explained earlier had a very different deal she had her executive producer fee and she had her acting role as well and while she as the lead will have made more acting wise but the astronomical difference between Sarah Jessica and the other three actresses was primarily
• 34:30 - 35:00 because of her executive producer credit Sarah Jessica was allegedly making $3.2 million per episode and allegedly Kim Katrell wanted the same deal that Sarah Jessica had but HBO wasn't willing to do that people associate with the show have spoken about this before and tried to explain it but the thing that really is at the heart of this is that that deal that Sarah Jessica got was unheard of and it also was a deal of that time when
• 35:00 - 35:30 HBO wasn't really unnown Network certainly not for scripted stuff and it was such a shot inth dark that this show would be a success it was hinging on getting Sarah Jessica Parker in that role and all the other stuff that I talked about this isn't the sort of deal that you're going to see probably ever now this a reason that you don't see any
• 35:30 - 36:00 actor getting an executive producer credit at the second season unless it's something like a Revival reboot and it's the original actors involved these deals just are not common at all and they certainly wouldn't happen for a show that is a hit and a show that is one of the biggest shows on the network especially because every year that a show goes on usually the ratings come down and the fee for the actors go up the shows become much more expensive
• 36:00 - 36:30 it's why even when you have these CW shows you see them kind of cutting Corners in the last couple of seasons one of the best examples is Charmed that show ran for eight seasons but the final season they actually had to fire one of the male leads that had been there since the beginning of the show and the main male lead was basically trimmed down to a handful of episodes because they couldn't afford to pay them because as I
• 36:30 - 37:00 said shows get more expensive as they go on but they're not bringing in as much money and the actresses for charm two of them had executive producer credits they had that high fee and they had been on the show for eight years so each year they're getting a bump in pay or most years or however they do it they had obviously gotten a lot more than in the beginning and so yes like sex in the city was obviously a really huge show and I'm sure they made buckets of money but I don't know whether they would be
• 37:00 - 37:30 able to have four actresses pulling in 3.2 or it probably be bumped up again because it was another season so even a small small bump of 3.5 million four times I I don't know whether that's feasible obviously I don't know HBO's numbers and this is also in 2004 money so it's even crazier I just don't think HBO would look at the profit and loss and think oh we're making enough profit
• 37:30 - 38:00 to take all of this risk but I of course think that actors who are part of these very successful projects should be getting their Fair dues I spoke in my gry's anatomy video about how a lot of people bked at Ellen Pompeo getting 20 million for her contract with gry's Anatomy one a lot of that was her executive producer credit but when these shows are making insane money of course the actors should benefit Grace's Anatomy is a billion dooll show the
• 38:00 - 38:30 network executives are benefiting so of course the actors actually on the show should and someone like Ellen Pompeo was on the show for 20 years I think that it is very important that everybody is paid their worth and of course 20 million is an insane number but I actually I think it was in the gry's anatomy video I talked about this that I have like my own business in in the real world my real World job and I am very passionate
• 38:30 - 39:00 about people being paid their worth and when they do a good job that they are given like a little bonus or you know you you treat the people that you're working with well and you make sure that you look after them because that is the best way to to build a team these salary negotiations always create a lot of talking points and of course when the show was ending and all of this started
• 39:00 - 39:30 coming out it was 2004 friends was also ending then too and a lot of people were talking about the Friends cast and the Sex in the City cast and why couldn't it be the same and I often use the example of the Friends cast when talking about salary stuff in behind the scenes videos like this and everybody knows how they famously banded together so they could negotiate as a group as six leads of the show and the reason that I use friends is because this so rarely happens the
• 39:30 - 40:00 vast majority of the time everybody wants to be number one in the call sheet or they want to be closest to number one in the call sheet and it's very rare that people band together with friends Jennifer Anderson and David schwimer were actually being paid slightly more by season 3 of friends but they asked for everyone else to be brought to the same level as them and from that point on they were always the same there is power in that but that was never
• 40:00 - 40:30 possible with sex in the city this wouldn't have been possible on friends if say Jennifer Anderson was an executive producer even though as I said Samantha was probably a more popular character than carry and I know a lot of people found Carrie to be a nightmare the last couple of Seasons the Friends cast were all contracted as leads even when they submitted for awards they were all in the same category there is no hierarchy ever in that show all 10
• 40:30 - 41:00 seasons it's the same six names in the credits and only those six names and it's in alphabetical order another major point that there is no hierarchy Sex in the City on paper was not for leads Sarah Jessica Parker was the lead and Cynthia Kristen and Kim were supporting it didn't matter that Samantha was the more popular character or by the end of the show people were finding Carrie night may just wait till we get to and just like that but unfortunately the way
• 41:00 - 41:30 that this deal was done in '98 it was just an unheard of deal and it's why HBO would be unwilling to offer it again to anyone else after the show ended in 2004 there was a lot of discussion about everything we just talked about the pay disparity and just behind the scenes drama in general anytime that this was brought up to Kim Katrell she would always say well I wanted us all to be equal across the board but when they
• 41:30 - 42:00 were all brought back for the Sex in the City movie this wasn't the case the first movie was released in 2008 and was talked about pretty much from the end of the show there was a lot of drama and back and forth about the movie and whether it was going to happen and I don't want to bore you with Sarah Jessica said this Kim said this will the movie happen will it not will the movie happened it happened we'll just cut to the chase Sarah Jessica Parker Kristen
• 42:00 - 42:30 Davis and Cynthia Nixon all signed on really quickly for the movie and there was then a long negotiation with Kim catral she did eventually sign on for the movie but then there was a massive discrepancy in Pay between Sarah Jessica and Kim catrell and Kim catrell and Cynthia and Kristen for the first movie Sarah Jessica made 15 million Kim catrell made 7 million and Kristen and Cynthia made 3 million each so Kim
• 42:30 - 43:00 catrell made half of what Sarah Jessica made and Cynthia and Kristen made half of what Kim catrell made again I say though Sarah Jessica Parker was an executive producer on the movie so she had a lot of her money tied up in that credit which means on paper there was a much bigger discrepancy between Kim catrell and Cynthia and Kristen the movie was a financial success and made
• 43:00 - 43:30 over $400 million at the box office on a budget of 65 million which is kind of crazy to think that half of the budget was for four actors and one executive producer the movie got extremely mixed reviews but Sex in the City fans really enjoyed it so they decided to make a sequel that was released in 2010 just like with the first movie there was a lot of back and forth in the Press about whether Kim Katrell was going to do the movie Sarah Cynthia and Kristen all
• 43:30 - 44:00 signed on straight away and then Kim and her team there was lots of back and forth yes I'm doing it no I'm not and it was in the media a lot too but eventually she signed on and they up the budget for the second movie they ended up having a budget of 95 million Sarah Jessica for her acting an executive producer role was paid 20 million Kim Katrell was paid 10 million and Kristen and Cynthia were paid 4 million each the
• 44:00 - 44:30 second movie didn't make as much at the box office just under 300 million but this movie was torn to shreds by critics and a lot of the fans when the First Sex in the City movie came out I was in college and undergrad and then when the second one came out I was in grad school but for both of them I was running the AMC theaters in Tampa the West Shore and Veterans location and there are certain movies from my
• 44:30 - 45:00 time as an AMC manager that are burned into my memory and both Sex in the City movies and Magic Mike they were apocalypse I still can remember those those opening weekends like it was yesterday because they were absolutely wild I'm sure most people know Magic Mike was actually set in Tampa and Channing Tatum grew up in Tampa I actually used to work with a woman who
• 45:00 - 45:30 dated him in high school and there was a rumor that went around that Channing Tatum was going to come to the premiere screening at our AMC Theater so it was out of control Magic Mike and both Sex in the City movies it was the entire opening weekend every seat full and every single person in the theater was a drunk woman every single one and it was all like massive groups of friends and they all you know were like sneaky in
• 45:30 - 46:00 water bottles with like vodka and stuff in it and Cosmos and at the second movie there was there was probably the the drunkest person that I've ever seen in my life we actually had to call an ambulance for them it was so bad and they were I won't get into details but I know some people are a little bit squeamish but yeah they not good not good but after the second movie there was going to be a third one and they started this
• 46:00 - 46:30 whole Saga again of Kim katal is not going to do it she is going to do it she's not going to do it and this went on for a long time Kim catrell actually did a piece in variety and spoke about one of the storylines that they were apparently going to have in this third movie for Samantha that was her sexting with Miranda's teenage son which disgusting but the third movie obviously did not happen negotiations really broke down between Kim Katrell and Sarah
• 46:30 - 47:00 Jessica and the production but they did think for a while that Kim katal was going to do it because the same thing had happened with the first two movies and she had wanted more money so this whole thing had gone on and most people now that were associated with the show say that they did think that Kim catrell really just like wanted to be done with the show and the character and everything by the time they were talking about a third movie and you can't really blame
• 47:00 - 47:30 her for that for not wanting to be doing the same project again or you know like a different version of the same project and I never have any issues with actors who like want to move on the only time I have issues is when they will bash like the other the project that they were really known for or they seem to be like oh that's beneath me now the person who I think handles it the absolute best and who I think is one of the best for
• 47:30 - 48:00 handling Fame in general is Daniel Radcliffe I think that he honestly is is just like the blueprint that a lot of people should follow for that like he he isn't super cringe about it or playing into it he's just like no I know people are always going to know me as this character I got ridiculously lucky he really seems to have loved playing Harry Potter he recognizes the absolute insane wealth that he has of it and and because of that because he's had the money and success and some of the biggest films
• 48:00 - 48:30 and franchises in history he's like no I'm going to do this Weird Al Yankovich movie or I'm going to play a corpse so I honestly absolutely love him but I I please don't don't do anything sketchy don't don't do anything weird it's very rare now that I will say I love someone in a video because I just feel all of them do something weird or accusations come out or something so please do not let me down tell Red Cliff
• 48:30 - 49:00 please but when the third Sex in the City movie was still in the negotiation process they actually were pretty confident that Kim catral was going to sign on so they started doing things like setting schedules and putting crew on hold and they worked on the whole everything about the show or the movie over the summer and then everything fell apart and Kim
• 49:00 - 49:30 catral said she wasn't going to do it so it broke down and then a lot of people were not happy that the movie wasn't going to proceed we negotiated in good faith you know we wanted it to be a place that felt good to everybody and if we were aware that contractually there were any issues we hoped that they were settled because we wanted Kim to be there Michael and I worked all summer I had many many many many conversations with her manager where you know I was told well she'd love to hear from you I emailed her I tried to reach out to her and say like we want you part of this
• 49:30 - 50:00 you're an integral part of course you are you know I hope when you read this script you'll see the beauty The Joy the Heartbreak in it that I see that we have seen but I can't force her to see it but we did negotiate through the process and ultimately the studio said we can't meet those asks of hers we're not able to do it we don't see the economics don't make sense for us so then it's over but that's not a um character assassination that's just the way business works I'm not in a cat bite with anybody I've not publicly ever said anything unfriendly unappreciative about Kim the announcement the movie wasn't going to happen Sarah Jessica was asked at an
• 50:00 - 50:30 event about it and she said no it's a not holded it's over we had this beautiful funny heartbreaking joyful very relatable script and now people aren't going to get to see it that same day that she said this at an event the daily mail ran an article where they quoted an anonymous source that said it was Kim krell's fault that the movie wasn't going to be made Kim catrell ended up tweeting that she never wanted to do a third movie and then all hell broke loose a lot of people involved
• 50:30 - 51:00 with the show and movies began speaking out there were scores and scores of articles that started to come out this is the point that people realized oh okay this movie isn't happening because people really thought this is the same song and dance about getting a salary increase as before and when Kim catral tweeted that you know she wanted out then a lot of people from the show and the movie started speaking out as well and there were scores and scores of
• 51:00 - 51:30 articles that came out about this as well can't imagine what Kim was going through having lost her brother and the rage and anger she felt about that and I understand wanting to laugh out of someone to left out of ter test because me seem unbelievably unfair to the point where I felt super angry because were they the closest of friends all the time no did they have a million laughs together throughout seven or eight years of filming yes I think deep at the bottom of it why Kim said no wasn't because of the women I think it was
• 51:30 - 52:00 really deep down she wanted to move on and that's a completely legitimate choice to want to go on and do something else what isn't the right choice is to claim that that choice is because these other people were monsters basically were not up until this point there just been little comments here and there and Anonymous sources but Kim catral herself then decided that she had no affiliation with the SE in the city Universe anymore and that meant that she could say
• 52:00 - 52:30 whatever she wanted so she decided in 2017 to go on Pierce Morgan's life stories and she really said her true feelings about sex in the city and how she felt about Sarah Jessica Parker and how it seemed to her like she was in a toxic relationship like Kim and Sarah Jessica were in a toxic relationship she said that no one had picked up the phone and tried to contact her directly it feels like a toxic relationship they BL
• 52:30 - 53:00 they're all basically blaming you I just wish that Sarah had been nicer I mean you can hear the murmuring because we've all heard rumors that you didn't get on and now we've heard it from the horse's mouth it seemed like things were well and truly over for any Sex in the City projects at this point especially after all of the repercussions from that interview because a lot of the press really started talking about the behind the-scenes drama and lots of Articles
• 53:00 - 53:30 were produced about all of the back and forth between Kim catrell and Sarah Jessica the next year in 2018 Kim krell's brother sadly passed away and Kim krell's co-stars from Sex in the City reached out to her privately but when they got no response and were unsure if they were contacting her under the right number as they hadn't spoken since before the Pierce Morgan interview they left condolence on her public Instagram Kim was outraged by this and
• 53:30 - 54:00 she posted a new post on her Instagram that said she didn't want Sarah Jessica's condolences and that they weren't friends I do think when these tragedies happen celebrities are kind of in a difficult spot especially when it's a situation like this and everybody knows that they aren't on the best terms it's always the same when there are feuds or problems between celebrities like when Robin Williams passed away I know a lot of people were saying oh is s
• 54:00 - 54:30 Michelle G going to say anything when celebrities work together closely especially on massive projects the public kind of expects that they should say something to each other when one goes through a tragedy or something significant happens and if the celebrity like if Sarah Jessica didn't say anything she would have been absolutely destroyed online and told that she was
• 54:30 - 55:00 this heartless cruel person and Sarah Jessica did reach out to her privately first as Kim had made a point in the Pierce Morgan thing to say she wanted to be directly reached out to of course that was talking about the movie but it seemed like that is the line of communication that she wanted and it was to give her condolences I've certainly worked with people or even people I went to school with that I was great work friends with but don't see anymore or
• 55:00 - 55:30 even people like at school that there's not really anyone that I didn't get on with but people that I'd maybe just you know say hi how's it going like to like they weren't people that I would hang out with but now I'm still friends with them on Facebook and Instagram and stuff and even I give you an example the other day someone that I knew from childhood that I probably haven't actually seen or spoken to in 20 years their dog passed away and I of course like when I saw the post I was like oh I'm so sorry that
• 55:30 - 56:00 must be you know I I I can't can't imagine like what they're going through and I just don't think that that's so unusual and especially when it's celebrities they really are in this impossible situation because if they say nothing people will absolutely destroy them online and you know vilify them and just say oh you're a heartless monster but then if they say something then people accuse them of being fake or this and that I mean it's always like that
• 56:00 - 56:30 you you can just you can never win can you with a lot of things that you st online I think usually in situations when you say oh you can never win online like there's there's Nuance to the subject and the internet famously has issues with nuance and this is one of those situations because I think it just depends on the type of person you are if I was in that situation obviously I do not know all the ins and outs but if
• 56:30 - 57:00 something happened in in my life and somebody left me a comment on social media I would just think oh that that's nice that they they said something even if it's someone that maybe I'm not that crazy about but I know that there's people like I can I probably even my sister would probably say that she wouldn't want somebody saying something unless they were you know a close friend or family so I think that it just really depends on the person but again it's
• 57:00 - 57:30 it's one of those topics that there's Nuance I don't think that it's you know Sarah Jessica Parker's a monster because she said this and Kim Katrell was obviously grieving and things like that as well and but she lashed out and you know so publicly too like again Nuance this all happened in early 2018 and Kim catral from that point on made it clear that she was done with Samantha and Sex in the City and now that she was in
• 57:30 - 58:00 associate with the project as I said she was speaking more freely about her true feelings and she did several more interviews including the aforementioned variety piece where she spoke about the third movie and some of the scrap storylines so Kim catrell was done and that made fans think Sex In The City the universe franchise is done too to even quote Kim catral she said I'm done because who Among Us has watched Sex in
• 58:00 - 58:30 the City too and not thought that they're done which absolutely fair point because that movie was atrocious but it is always darkest before Dawn and just like that suddenly in December 2020 truly the darkest year news of a new Sex in the City Revival came about fans were eager to see which category it would fall into whether would be reminiscent of the original popular show or more in
• 58:30 - 59:00 line with the latest iteration Sex in the City to exactly one year after the news broke that there was going to be a Sex in the City Revival the new continuation series and just like that premiered on sex in the city's home HBO Sarah Jessica Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis all returned and Kim catrell did not one major difference this time around was that although Sarah Jessica was heavily involved with bringing the show back on paper and contractually all
• 59:00 - 59:30 three returning actresses were on equal footing across the board all three were getting paid the same and all three were made executive producers each of the three women were paid $1 million per episode Chris no also returned to the show and they brought in several new characters the original Sex in the City honored a lot of criticism totally valid criticism for being incredibly white and
• 59:30 - 60:00 straight especially considering it was set in New York City one of the most diverse cities on Earth added to the show was Sarah Ramirez as CH Diaz Serita Cloud Hera as seina Patel Nicole Ari Parker as Lisa wexley and then also returning from the original show were Mario Kon as Anthony Martino David Engelberg as Steve Brady Willie Garrison as Stanford blanch and Evan Handler as
• 60:00 - 60:30 Harry golden blot before we get into the rest of what happened with Sarah Jessica and Kim Katrell and criticism of and just like that I wanted to First speak about Chris no in the first episode of and just like that spoilers big suffers a fatal heart attack after going on a workout on his pelan bike Carrie returns home and finds him collapsed in the shower and he ends up passing away away in her arms Chris no actually was reached out to by pelaton when this
• 60:30 - 61:00 episode aired and he and Ryan Reynolds made a pelan ad that was kind of a sequel to the episode despite being killed off Chris no was set to appear in the finale of and just like that the season 1 finale but was digitally removed due to accusations that were levied against him one week after the show Premier and just to be Crystal clear these are accusations against Chris no he has not been found guilty
• 61:00 - 61:30 nor charged over anything that I'm going to discuss and just like that premiered on December 9th 2021 and on December 16th 2021 two women came forward with accusations against Chris na both women used pseudonyms of Zoe and Lily and they came forward with two independently described incidents of sexual assault and misconduct both women women came forward to The Hollywood Reporter separately and they didn't know about
• 61:30 - 62:00 each other nor each other's stories before they spoke to the publication according to Zoe when she graduated from college in 2004 when she was 22 she worked at a high profile firm and she worked an entry-level job there and Noth was one of the celebrity clients of this firm whenever he would come into the office he would flirt with her and come over to her desk a lot and he actually ended up looking up her number in the company directory Zoe alleges that Nath
• 62:00 - 62:30 invited her and a friend over to use the pool at an apartment he was staying in in West Hollywood they hung out by the pool and Zoe said that no brought a book with him that he gave to Zoe and said he was thinking about doing a project based on this book and he wanted Zoe to give feedback Nath then said he needed to make a phone call and he would leave the book witho if she didn't mind dropping it back into his apartment whenever she was leaving
• 62:30 - 63:00 the pool Zoe said she was very flattered by him asking for her opinion on a project that he was going to do as he was an experienced celebrity actor who was 49 and she was 22 and this was also at the height of Sex in the City Zoe then went to drop the book back to his apartment and said that whenever she went there he kissed her as she stepped through the front door she said that she wasn't alarmed or Taken back by this and she thought this would kind of be like a fun story to tell her friends because
• 63:00 - 63:30 again this was the height of Sex in the City and she was saying Oh Mr Big kissed me but she says that then he pulled her towards him and moved her Towards the bed and started pulling at her clothes and began assaulting her she asked him multiple times to stop and he just laughed at her whenever Zoe was allowed to leave she went over to a friend's house who actually lived in the same
• 63:30 - 64:00 apartment complex the friend ended up taking her to the hospital and when they went to Cedar cyanine Zoe told the staff that she had been assaulted the police came but she wouldn't say who it was she feared that she wouldn't be believed because of who Chris was Zoe did call her boss later that day after Nath had attacked her and The Hollywood Reporter did speak to Zoe's former boss and they verified that this all happened that the
• 64:00 - 64:30 phone call happened along with Zoe's friend who went to the pool with her her friend who took her to the hospital and her former boss The Hollywood Reporter did also speak to the UCLA Rape Crisis Center and Zoe had actually gone there 2 years later in 2006 and went for counseling about the incident the crisis center couldn't actually address the details of Zoe's situation specifically but the Clinical Director did confirm to
• 64:30 - 65:00 The Hollywood Reporter that the facility did treat her Lily alleged that in 2015 she ended up meeting Noth when she was in her early 30s and she described how when they met she was working at a New York City restaurant and later went to his apartment where he attacked her Lily also stated similar to Zoe that she did not initi report the incident but was deeply affected by it both women came forward to The Hollywood Reporter where
• 65:00 - 65:30 they told their stories publicly when they came forward they did not know about each other and they both came forward independently they both said that they did not speak up earlier for fear of professional repercussions feeling that they would not be believed which is incredibly common or that they would suffer backlash shortly after Zoe and Lily's accounts several other women came forward with additional accusations of inappropriate behavior and misconduct
• 65:30 - 66:00 about Chris no though not all of these women accused him of assult many described incidents of unwanted advances inappropriate comments and unsettling interactions one woman alleged that he sent her sexually suggestive messages after they briefly dated in the early 2000s and there were many other women in the entertainment industry that came forward and said that they had received inappropriate advances from Chris no
• 66:00 - 66:30 when they were working on projects with him Noth denied all accusations and he made a statement to The Hollywood Reporter and said that all of the encounters with the women were consensual and denied any wrongdoing he described the incident as a mutual connection and expressed that he was deeply troubled by the allegations but insisted all of the accusations were completely false when the accusation surfaced and the Articles from The Hollywood Reporter came out there was a
• 66:30 - 67:00 woman who worked on Sex in the City she worked as Charlotte stand in for pretty much the entire show she wrote an essay that went viral about her experience with Chris no and the harassment that she spoke about on the set of Sex in the City was more verbal and talking about him saying very aor and just disgusting things to other standin that she basically w witnessed and a week after her viral essay she did also do another
• 67:00 - 67:30 piece in the independent where she spoke about how she was disgusted with him being involved in and just like that in the first place but she did also speak about her experience on the show and very much liking working with Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristen Davis there were other negatives that she spoke about in the articles but overall it mainly focused on how inappropriate Chris no was and how how she did enjoy her experience with Kristen Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker after the
• 67:30 - 68:00 allegations came out and the piece in The Hollywood Reporter there was a massive public outcry about his behavior and it sparked a lot of discussion in the media and also a lot of people who'd worked with him to come forward and make statements including all of the main cast of and just like that no was removed from all of his projects He had been removed as I mentioned from and just like that his CBS show with Queen
• 68:00 - 68:30 Latifa The Equalizer completely removed him from any future episodes and CBS and the production company behind it decided to part ways with him and said that they wouldn't have him appear in any future episodes in addition to being removed from his TV roles he also had several high-profile endorsements that were severed including the one that I mentioned with pelaton and from that point onward he pretty much had any projects that he was doing either cancelled or he was
• 68:30 - 69:00 removed from them and anybody that had worked with him previously began distancing themselves from him when it came to his Sex in the City and just like that co-stars Kim catrell had famously had a strange relationship with him during filming of Sex in the City and she did not publicly comment on the accusations Sarah Jessica Kristen and Cynthia issued a joint statement expressing support for the women who had come forward with the allegations no did
• 69:00 - 69:30 defend himself on social media and said that he had a lot of sadness about the public backlash and stated that he had been cancelled unfairly as of now he has not been charged with any crimes in relation to the allegations but some of them statute limitations and others we all know how difficult these things are to even get charges or never mind go to
• 69:30 - 70:00 court and actually have something happen there were reports that he was exploring legal Avenues as I said to clear his name but nothing has come of that at all when I'm just like that premiered and throughout the first season the show garnered a lot of criticism on my original Channel I actually did a video about and just like that and the lward generation queue and how they were both both not great and we're doing this very like box checking
• 70:00 - 70:30 representation when the show came out I really think I I know I watched like the first two episodes I think I made it to three but I couldn't face any more than that Sex in the City primarily worked because women related to the show and that's why shows like friends and the LW and even like Dawson's Creek work because people can relate to the characters and yes the characters are richer and they only seem to work an hour a day and they're all beautiful and
• 70:30 - 71:00 live in these amazing New York apartments but there is something relatable about them we can suspend that disbelief as we know it's a show but it's still rooted and grounded in something real lots of us have friendships like the ones on the show lots of us are in messy relationships lots of us make ridiculous purchases and make the wrong decision but and just like that is just checking boxes and having these very fluffy
• 71:00 - 71:30 conversations around certain Hot Topics everything on the show is just so far off the scale that no one can relate to the characters in any way and to make things even worse it seemed like they totally reconned a lot of the characters making Carrie the sex columnist unable to discuss sex and there just was nothing that you could grab on to with the show Cynthia Nixon also started
• 71:30 - 72:00 speaking out about how much she thought was wrong with the original show and don't get me wrong there is a lot wrong with the original show and especially when you're watching it now and the differences but and just like that was not received well especially the character of Chay Diaz who has to be one of the most disliked characters on TV in the past 10 years the first season the show did decent ratings wise but was
• 72:00 - 72:30 shredded critically by critics and fans the show was renewed for a second season but continued to decline the ratings dropped like 40% after the second season premiere and reviews and fans opinions fell even more in the second season however as I said before it is always darkest before Dawn and despite it seemingly being crystal clear that Kim catral was done with sex in the city
• 72:30 - 73:00 just like that she returned but returned for a one-off cameo in which her character was only shot on a phone call where she didn't have to interact with anyone from the cast The Crew didn't even actually know that they were shooting that scene the day that they filmed it they didn't even know Kim Katrell was going to be there for the filming and also Kim catrell stipulated
• 73:00 - 73:30 that the original costume of from Sex in the City Patricia field was to dress her not the costumer from and just like that so for the season 2 finale of and just like that Samantha Jones returned to the Sex in the City universe and Kim catrell was reportedly paid $1 million for her Cameo she shot the scene over 4 hours her call time was at noon and wrapped at 400 p.m. and she was on screen for a whopping 71 seconds so for one episode
• 73:30 - 74:00 in the Sex in the City Universe all four actresses were paid the same $1 million for one episode people are always going to have different thoughts and opinions about this whole s Jessica Parker Kim catrell thing and people seem to come down pretty firm on one side as I've said actors should be paid their worth when they're on these enormous shows and unfortunately Hollywood women
• 74:00 - 74:30 especially have to fight to be paid their worth but it isn't as simple as saying everybody be paid the same as the Friends cast because EOS get in the way and there's very few people in Hollywood who will do that because look at Sex in the City movies that didn't happen there's as big a difference between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Katrell as with Kim catral and Cynthia Nixon and
• 74:30 - 75:00 Kristen Davis but Sarah Jessica Parker was doing more she was doing that executive producer role and that also is an enormous factor that wasn't even involved in the friends deal it's Why shows like the morning show Jennifer Anderson and Reese Witherspoon they're both leads they're both executive producers and they're both making crazy money you can even look at this season 2 finale of and just like that I mean Kim
• 75:00 - 75:30 catral spent 4 hours shooting a 71 second scene and the other three shot a lot longer than that and they're all executive producers they're involved in a lot more than just acting and there's all that time that they've put in before its shoot week of the episode they'll have been involved and and I this isn't the case for all executive producers but I know the case with them like they're involved in what's happening with the characters they're involved with the
• 75:30 - 76:00 writing like all leading up to the shooting and they're involved with seeing the edit and stuff like that too and I do think that it's interesting that when all three actresses came on to and just like that Sarah Jessica Parker Kristen Davis and Cynthia Nixon all received equal pay across the board and equal credits as an executive producer that was was the first project that Kim catrell wasn't involved in Sarah Jessica has never publicly said anything
• 76:00 - 76:30 negative about Kim catral and even when she's speaking about why the third movie didn't happen she never mentioned Kim catral when it comes to what the rest of the cast and crew have said over the years there has been unanimous support on Sarah Jessica's side and even people like Jason Lewis who mainly only worked with Kim catral he has always always praised Sarah Jessica and when pressed about Kim catrell he's pled the fifth
• 76:30 - 77:00 stuff going back and forth in the Press about Kim and Sarah Jessica Parker you were there did you have a thought about it mhm okay what's your thought about it well if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all all right but that would that be in any particular dire this Sarah was always just so lovely and such a a consant professional and I think that people should remember uh their graciousness and and the things that have been given to them and I'm going to stop there got nothing good to say there's a team Sarah or a Kim my sense is you're on team Sarah I might just have to say yeah she's what a gracious lady she was always so good were other people not as good to you
• 77:00 - 77:30 Sarah was amazing some people will say oh they probably have stayed on her good side because they want to be involved with projects or because she has the power to give them more money but Jason Lewis's character is not going to be back on the show without Kim krell's character and there are countless other examples of other cast members who are long gone and not going to be involved with the project or people speaking up when everyone thought there would never
• 77:30 - 78:00 be any more Sex in the City Universe Saga so I do think that that says a lot as I usually talk about in these behind the-scenes videos a lot of actors not all but a lot are nightmares especially on these crazy successful shows I'm sure it wasn't easy to deal with all these personalities and especially when it's a super big show and there's all this are you a Carrie Miranda Charlotte Samantha element that kind of puts them against
• 78:00 - 78:30 each other I'm sure that didn't make things easy I'm sure no one had an easy time and there's also other factors like Kim catral was doing all these crazy sex scenes and this was at a time when there was no mandatory intimacy coordinators and Sarah Jessica had a no nudity clause in her contract but I will say most of what I've heard about how Sarah Jessica Parker works and conducts herself and how she leads the show it was all really
• 78:30 - 79:00 positive stuff and again I think that speaks volumes also the fact that all those people have stuck their necks out to praise her because it seems to be a much more popular opinion to be on Kim catrell side when it comes to what I've heard about other cast members I can't say it's the same about the positive stuff to be honest I haven't really heard anything about Kristen Davis outside of like a few little usual actor stuff but really not that much when it
• 79:00 - 79:30 comes to Cynthia Nixon she doesn't have the greatest reputation and there were a lot of people that worked on the Sex in the City set that had issues with her but when it comes to Kim catrell a lot of the things about her are not very positive and that's not just to do with sex in the city it's plenty of other projects she doesn't have the greatest reputation one other super bizarre thing
• 79:30 - 80:00 that I came across about Kim catrell was this court order that her family had to get against her in Liverpool which is where she's from but she left there when she was like a baby and there's this family plot where family members are already buried and the kids of these buried family members had to get a court order against Kim to get her to remove her name that she had got engraved in the tombstone but
• 80:00 - 80:30 didn't tell the family and she also she had her name engraved and Liverpool's Cleopatra I ended up looking up three different sources for this because at first I was like is this real is this satire and I just wanted to mention it because it's so bizarre and it didn't organically fit anywhere else in the video but I'm really interested to hear people's opinion I do think like nearly every topic I talk about this one
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