So we all know Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha are fictional characters invented for Sex And The City – the late nineties/early noughties HBO romantic comedy show, so brilliant that over ten years later we're still talking about it – but in their world, of course, they're real.
That is what we thought until today.
In a recent interview with Chris Hardwick on the Nerdist podcast, Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed a shocking theory she used to have about Carrie's three friends...
'I used to wonder if Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda were real,' she said. 'That it wasn't just [Carrie's] column... because they're such perfectly archetypal characters, the other three. So you're writing a column about sexual politics and observations of female/male primarily, heterosexual relationships, so you're picking one type.
'You're saying 'this type is this and this', and then you just complicate it more, like any good writer does. So I'm not entirely sure they're actually real.'
What, SJP, WHAT? Carrie might have invented Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha for her column? What are you saying?!
'I think they're invented types,' she continued. 'And that [Carrie] is among them because that's her way of infiltrating the story and affecting the story too. So she also wants to have her own actions affect those friendships, affect and document their response.'
Chris went on to ask if the three friends were all just in Carrie's head and whether the sex columnist was, in fact, psychotic? SJP was quick to shut this down, however, simply responding that it was a 'literary conceit'.
Well, that's a relief. At least.
But the other theory, wow, it's really thrown us. It's like we're having to rethink every SATC episode in a totally different context and it's kind of making our heads spin.
Let's just pretend we haven't heard it. Moving on...
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