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Sarah Jessica Parker Opens Up About Deleted Sex And The City Scene That Could Have Been A Game-Changer For Carrie

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Sarah Jessica Parker is lifting the lid on a deleted Sex And The City scene that would have given viewers more of an insight into her character’s background.

The Emmy winner played Carrie Bradshaw in all six seasons of Sex And The City, as well as its two spin-off films and the revival series And Just Like That.

Ahead of And Just Like That’s return, HuffPost UK spoke to Sarah Jessica about the fact that, despite Carrie having been on our screens for the better part of 30 years, there are still a lot of question marks around the character’s back story.

SJP explained that there has always been a “very conscious effort” to not shed too much light on any of the characters’ introduced in Sex And The City personal histories, but especially Carrie.

“There was a moment that we had a father for Carrie,” she recalled. “There was a scene shot where Carrie opens a desk drawer, and looks down and sees a photograph of her father, and shuts the drawer. And we cut it from the show.”

Sarah Jessica Parker at the premiere of And Just Like That season three
Sarah Jessica Parker at the premiere of And Just Like That season three

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According to Sarah Jessica, showrunner Michael Patrick King opted to ditch the small scene as he felt it would have “complicated” the story, and might have “eclipsed” and “dominated” the bigger picture.

“I could not agree more,” she said. “There is a sort of alternate universe in which she lives, in which back story doesn’t exist.

“So, we’re not endowing her with qualities because… or saying she behaves this way because… or a parent or mother parented her this way and that’s why [she had] this response.

“[This approach is] so clean, and it kind of gives you more liberty to tell a story. Because in some ways, once you start introducing families, and the ways in which they’ve informed somebody, you lock yourself into, like, pathologies and choices and eccentricities.”

Carrie did briefly touch on her family life in season four of Sex And The City, when she disclosed that her father left the family home when she was a child.

“Do you think it really can be as simple as, ‘My father walked out, therefore I’ll always be messed up about men?‘’,” she asked Miranda in the episode A Vogue Idea, who responded: “My father came home every night at seven on the dot, and I have no clue about men either.”

The first episode of And Just Like That season three is now streaming on Sky and Now in the UK, with new instalments coming every Friday.

More interviews with the And Just Like That cast will be published on HuffPost UK in the coming days.

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It’s Not Just Austen – Posh Accents Are Ruining Period Dramas, Historian Says

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At this year’s Hay Festival, Jane Tranter – former executive vice-president of programming and production at the BBC and current producer of Austen adaptation The Other Bennet Sister – said actors “start speaking posh” when they get a Pride And Prejudice-era script in their hands.

“Not everybody spoke posh in those days, so you have to work with that as well,” she shared (via The Times).

Pinched voices, fussy hairdos, and “weird hats” can risk leading to “such a fetishised approach that it becomes a barrier between the audience and what is going on,” she adds.

So, we spoke to author and historian Katie Kennedy (of viral account @TheHistoryGossip and new SKY History series History Crush) about what we lose when costume drama accents all start to sound the same.

Katie Kennedy
Katie Kennedy

Katie Kennedy

It’s not an isolated trend

Kennedy tells us the tendency isn’t limited to period costume dramas.

“It is widely known that the acting industry is dominated by the middle and upper classes,” she says.

In 2024, the Sutton Trust found that people from working-class backgrounds were four times less likely than their middle-class peers to work in any creative industry.

BAFTA-nominated actors are five times more likely to have gone to private school than the general public.

“While this is an issue in itself,” Kennedy continued, “it also heavily influences how history gets portrayed on screen.

“We’ve been sold this idea that everyone in the past was super polished and polite, and we’ve equated that with the classic RP [received pronunciation] accent.”

That’s not to say you can’t change up voices, actors, stories, or perspectives, especially in looser adaptations like Bridget Jones (expertly nicked from Pride And Prejudice) – but would-be “faithful” adaptations tend to sound distractingly, and sometimes inaccurately, similar.

The Brontës have fallen victim to the issue, too, Kennedy says

Take, the historian says, the 2022 film Emily.

“The Brontës are portrayed with soft-spoken middle-class voices, even though they most likely would’ve had an Irish or at least an Irish/Yorkshire mixed accent as their father was Irish,” she shares.

Indeed, Charlotte Brontë’s friend Mary Taylor said the author “spoke with a strong Irish accent,” while the British Film Institute admits star Emma Mackey’s “Yorkshire accent sporadically wanders down the M1″ in the movie.

“A lot of the time” in period dramas, “the working-class accent has been attributed to comic relief, or a character who has had a troubled life,” she tells HuffPost UK.

“When everyone in a period drama speaks the same, you’re not just losing historical accuracy, you’re also reinforcing the idea that the only ‘serious’ or ‘worthy’ people in history were the ones who ‘spoke properly.’”

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Hannah Waddingham Reveals How She’s Really Feeling About Ted Lasso’s Surprise Return

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Hannah Waddingham has opened up about the return of Ted Lasso.

The British actor won an Emmy for her performance as Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ sports comedy, and later made no secret of her disappointment when it looked as though it would not be returning for a fourth season.

Eventually, earlier this year, it was confirmed that new episodes of Ted Lasso were in the works after all, two years after it last aired.

Speaking on Tuesday’s edition of Capital Breakfast, the former Game Of Thrones star admitted she had complicated feelings about the prospect of Ted Lasso coming back, as she and her co-stars initially thought they’d “mourned the loss”.

“We were all a bit like, ‘Oh’,” Hannah admitted. “We thought we’d mourned the loss, and now it’s rising from the dead.”

Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton in the most recent season of Ted Lasso
Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton in the most recent season of Ted Lasso

However, she added that the news was “amazing”, while letting slip that shooting is due to begin in July.

Putting the show’s continued popularity down to the writing, she enthused: “Our writers are literally Jedi Knights. They’re just incredible. And we’ve got, like, a full room of real feminist men. So, we’ve got all the fabulous women in there – but the men that are in there, I think you really see [that they are feminists[ in the scripts.

“You could easily have a show that was so male-dominated, because, you know, myself and Juno Temple are like the two main women in it. So, it could really be out of control – but you’d never feel that. It’s just so beautifully drawn.”

Ted Lasso star and creator Jason Sudeikis revealed in March that season four would centre around the titular character taking over a women’s football team.

Jason explained: “It’s daunting, because we told the story we wanted to tell. But there’s more there. And it is a neat group of people to work with, it’s a wonderful group of people, and characters to write around and for. It’s such a great group.”

Seasons one to three of Ted Lasso are now streaming on Apple TV+.

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Celebrity Traitors Confirms Full Line-Up And All We Can Say Is Wow

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The Traitors bosses have finally confirmed the line-up for the show’s first ever celebrity outing.

The 19 contestants on the line-up are:

Now, one question we’ve always had about the proposed Celebrity Traitors is exactly how seriously the famous contestants would be taking the game, if there wasn’t a cash prize on the line.

However, it’s now been revealed that the famous Traitors and Faithfuls will be playing the game in the hopes of winning a share of a potential £100K cash prize for a charity of their choice – all under the watchful (and heavily made up) eye of Claudia Winkleman.

Claudia said: “We’re incredibly lucky these brilliant people have said yes. I’d love to say we’ll take it easy on them and they’ll just wander round the castle and eat toast for a couple of weeks but that would be a lie.”

A specific airdate is yet to be confirmed, although Celebrity Traitors will air on the BBC in the autumn, ahead of the regular series’ return in its usual January timeslot.

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The Four Seasons Series 2: We’ve Got Good News And Bad News For Anyone Hoping For More Episodes

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Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons.

If you’ve already binged all eight episodes of The Four Seasons on Netflix, you’ve no doubt been left wondering if there’s going to be any kind of resolution to that cliffhanger ending.

Tina Fey’s new comedy has been a hit with both critics and viewers, with those who’ve already watched it now hoping there’ll be a second run of the comedy – particularly given how things end in episode eight.

So… how likely is it that there’ll be new episodes of The Four Seasons in the not-too-distant future.

Will The Four Seasons get a season 2 at Netflix?

Well, we’re sorry to disappoint you, but given it’s only been a few days since it began streaming, there’s not been any kind of update yet on whether The Four Seasons will be getting recommissioned.

However, recent history has indicated that it tends to be the platform’s most popular shows that get follow-up seasons, and The Four Seasons has spent a good few days hovering around the top of Netflix’s most-watched chart, which is definitely a good sign for now.

It’s also billed as an original Netflix “series” rather than a “miniseries” – which does suggest that there could be a future for the show.

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This will be particularly good news for anyone who let out an involuntary gasp at that ending revelation, but one thing we should point out is that the 1981 film The Four Seasons, on which the TV show is based, ends on a similar unresolved cliffhanger, so we definitely wouldn’t take that a sign of more to come.

What has Tina Fey said about the possibility of The Four Seasons season 2?

Reassuringly, she’s definitely on board.

“I feel like we sort of don’t dare to dream yet, but we did. Who knows,” she told TV Line. “If we were lucky enough to do more of these, we’d certainly all like to hang out again.”

Co-creator Tracey Wigfield was similarly enthusiastic about the whole cast returning in a second run.

She also already has an idea for how the story would play out, noting: “If we did another season, we would want the same group of friends, and we’d want Ginny to really be tied in there because she and Anne are going to have children who are siblings. And it just gives us a lot to play with in their relationship.”

The Four Seasons is available to stream on Netflix now.

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