She couldn’t help but wonder… what was Carrie Bradshaw thinking?
Sarah Jessica Parker recently admitted that even she wouldn’t step out in some of her “Sex and the City” character’s wildest outfits.
The “And Just Like That” star, 60, weighed in on Carrie’s divisive fashion choices during an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” on Sunday, July 13.
In a segment called “The Shady Hat,” inspired by the viral gingham hat Carrie wore in the Season 3 premiere of “And Just Like That,” Parker was asked if there was “one thing that Carrie has worn that [she], SJP, would never be caught dead in.”
“I mean, there are piles and piles of laundry… of things that I would never wear,” she answered, only to be asked if she herself would ever sport that hat. “I’d have to have a really good reason. I probably wouldn’t have just strolled around Washington Square Park.”
“I do want to say, that milliner is a woman named Maryam Keyhani, and she’s amazing,” the “Hocus Pocus” actress added. “That hat is one of many pieces of works of art — whatever you want to do, make it a funny thing — but she’s incredible.”
Fan backlash over the hat saw viewers comparing Carrie to Strawberry Shortcake, a reaction “And Just Like That” costume designer Molly Rogers didn’t think was warranted.
“Do you want Carrie to walk through the park with Seema with a straw hat on from L.L.Bean? I don’t know, I can do it. I mean, I don’t want to,” Rogers told Page Six.
She added, “That kind of annoyed me, because I think at this point, we’re all a big family, we all watched the show, we know what it is. That fazes you?”
Still, Rogers and co-costume designer Danny Santiago were prepared that “people were going to come for [them].”
Parker, however, was the reason Carrie wore the controversial hat in the first place, she revealed to USA Today last month.
“I saw the hat and wanted it on my head,” she told the outlet. “At this point, there’s no pretend dilly-dallying around. We pretty much just put stuff on my head and photograph it and hope that Michael Patrick [King] (“And Just Like That” creator) is hospitable to the idea.”
Parker added that the accompanying dress — one she said reminded her of Neapolitan ice cream — felt “incomplete” without the cloud-like headpiece.
“Once you’ve put a lot of hats on your head, you feel like it’s missing its punctuation point,” she said. “There was that hat. It was going to be a lovely summer day, and it just felt like the period at the end of the sentence. I loved it, and [King] agreed. I feel we’ve really worn him down. His eyes have adapted to large-scale things on heads now, so he’s pretty generous about how often they can appear.”
King, for his part, told USA Today, “It’s like, ‘Hey, everybody, we’re back! Here’s a hat that Carrie would wear eating sherbet in Washington Square Park. Why not?’ I’ve learned over the years that sometimes logic is not as good as a hat. It makes people say, ‘I love it. I hate it. Oh, my God, what was she thinking?’”
King also told the outlet he predicts “it’ll be a thing” for months to come.
“It’ll be a meme,” he stated. “People will wear it at Halloween. It’s always fun, but with that [hat] particularly, I had to call up some of the writers and say, ‘Get ready. Once it’s on the head, it’s not coming off.’”
During her appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” Parker also shared her thoughts on which “Sex and the City” character had the worst style. Parker starred alongside Kim Cattrall (Samantha Jones), Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte York) in the original series.
“I think there were images at one point of us arriving in New York, and the way we dressed — I think there was a montage of our arrival, like newborn babies exposed to nothing,” she said. “I would say all of us at the beginning.”
Season 3 of “And Just Like That” premiered on May 29 on HBO Max. Episodes release weekly on Thursdays, with the season finale scheduled for August 14.
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