Sarah Jessica Parker shares two cents on 'SATC' game-changer deleted scene

Sarah Jessica Parker believes one deleted scene from Sex and the City would have changed the life of her onscreen character Carrie Bradshaw.

The actress, 60, was speaking with HuffPost UK about her longrunning role as Carrie and some undisclosed fragments of the character's life.

On that note, Sarah revealed that there was a "very conscious effort" to not disclose much about the personal history of the characters introduced in Sex And The City, particularly 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”.

The actress added that the showrunner Michael Patrick King then decided against it as he felt it would have “complicated” the story and could have “eclipsed” and “dominated” the bigger picture.

“I could not agree more,” Sarah told the publication. “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.”

Season four did touch upon Carrie's personal life briefly but made sure to be free of suspicions of poor parenting.

“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 replied, “My father came home every night at seven on the dot, and I have no clue about men either.”

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