"Sex and the City" Director Michael Patrick King Debunks 'Just Gay Boys Talking' Myth

Jim Slotek writes:
(New York City, NY) It's always been said of Sex and the City. "You know the secret of that show," actress Parker Posey once remarked to me during Sex and the City's heyday in the early '00s. "It's just gay boys talking, not women." And they're still saying it. On the very day a few weeks ago when I spoke with the director and entire cast of the Sex and the City movie, the New York Times ran a summer film roundup feature in which critic Manohla Dargis wrote that the show's "four bosomy buddies are really gay men in drag."

Sex and the City director Michael Patrick King (pictured), who shepherded the show for six years as exec producer and who, like its creator Darren Star, is openly gay -- demurs good-naturedly. No, he doesn't do drag. "I've never had Manolo (Blahniks) on, I've never been in high heels. I really have seen enough shoes (working on the show). It's like a gynecologist that goes home and says, 'Honey please, I've seen enough of those today.' And here's another thing, I rarely say the word 'Fabulous!' because I've typed it a million times."

There's no doubt there is an urban-gay element to the story of columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her friends Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon). But the show, based on the quasi-autobiographical book by Candace Bushnell was a complex soup of sexual input. The 10 story consultants were seven straight women, two gay men and one straight man. "Why do people always talk about how gay men are writing the women and they never talk about how straight women are writing the men?" King goes on. "It's interesting, Mr. Big (Carrie's boyfriend -- played by Chris Noth -- who is at the centre of the movie's will-they-or-won't-they-get-married plot) is written by women and they wrote him well and understand him. I'm not a doctor, but if I had to write ER I'd know to use the words 'rib-splitter' or 'STAT!' Here it's words like Manolo or Prada." READ MORE

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