'Sex and the City' director says Bradley Cooper told 'white lie' to guest star with Sarah Jessica Parker
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Bradley Cooper told a small white lie to land his first acting role in a 1999 'Sex and the City episode. Director and writer of 'Sex and the City', Michael Patrick King, discussed the show's past guest actors on the official Max podcast 'And Just Like That...The Writers Room' just before the Season 2 premiere on June 22, 2023.
The first trailer for 'And Just Like That' season 2 was released on April 26 and features Charlotte, Miranda, and Carrie returning to New York City. Significant indications about the topics covered in this season have been revealed in the teaser trailer.
'Bradley, this is where you drive, you take off'
On the podcast, Michael Patrick revealed that Bradley Cooper, 48, got the job by claiming to have a 'skill' that he didn't actually have. "Bradley Cooper — first job — said he could drive a stick to get the job because the character drove a Karmann Ghia," He added, "4:00 in the morning, another Friday outside 14th Street and I said, "Bradley, this is where you drive, you take off.' And he goes, 'I can't drive a stick," as reported by People.
King had to rewrite the scene on the fly to change the narrative. "And so we fixed, changed, pivoted," he continued. "Sarah Jessica's character Carrie crawls out of the Karmann Ghia and walks herself home."
In the season 2 episode 'They Shoot Single People, Don't They?', Cooper's character Jake meets Carrie Bradshaw after her unpleasant magazine shoot. He was one of the many guest stars on the show that frequently saw fresh faces come and go, depending on the 'crisis of the week' that the four female leads were confronting. Sarah Jessica Parker discussed what she perceived as "the hardest" aspect of welcoming guest stars to 'SATC' during the podcast too.
'Nothing harder than stepping onto a moving train'
The two-time Emmy Award winner said, "There's so many people that have come onto our show — some for five hours, some for five days, some for two days." She added, "There is to me nothing harder than stepping onto a moving train where everybody knows literally all the ball bearings of the machinery ... and they're joking and talking and reading before and talking and laughing, someone calls action we're like … it's the level of comfort," as reported by People.
This month marks the 25th anniversary of 'Sex and the City', the six-season HBO comedy that followed four gorgeous friends as they tried to find love in a famous metropolis.