Word has it that Sex and the City is getting rebooted on TV–bringing back Carrie Bradshaw for a generation unfamiliar with her exploits! Carrie’s going to be a young writer struggling to make it in New York in a pilot ordered by the CW, as opposed to a youngish writer magically making it in New York. Which actress can portray the young Ms. Bradshaw with just the right mix of panache, narcissism, and ability to wear a Manolo? We have a few suggestions!
This actress/singer/mainly actress, we guess, has a history with the CW, having been a star of the 'Melrose Place' update, and also has a Bradshavian way with the narcissist revisionist narrative. Who can forget the manner in which she rewrote her 'Saturday Night Live' lip-synching embarrassment as a triumphant plotline on her own reality show? Everyone can forget it, you say? Either way, it's good on-the job training for playing a woman able to revise a week-old embarrassment into a triumph of love.
If the producers want a Carrie haunted by an enigmatic past and looking into an uncertain future, they could do worse than this star, who's previously portrayed aberrant behavior and sisterhood with cultishly devoted pals in a recent 'cult' movie. 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'? More like 'Carrie Carrie Carrie Carrie'!
Carrie's devotion to fashion can perhaps only be mirrored by a young lady who's spent her entire adult life trying to look yet worse each day in the pursuit of magazine covers. What better way to differentiate Mary-Kate from Ashley than by casting one of the two as a famous character for which M-K wouldn't even have to de-scraggle her hair? (And it's time to capitalize on the buzz Mary-Kate earned by being nominated for a Daytime Emmy over Ashley--that's true.)
Carrie Bradshaw probably went through a vaguely Euro cyberpunk phase, right? Set 'The Carrie Diaries' in the early 1990s, make Carrie an ahead-of-her-time hacker who simply 'has to wonder' about how easy it is to seduce and steal secrets from banking executives while Trent Reznor's cover of the 'Sex and the City' theme plays, and you've got yourself a show!
We know Carrie gets pretty sad, sucking the entire series into a vortex of dull depression, when she breaks up with Big once every two seasons. But what if that 'Shame' spiral was constant? What if Carrie was constantly plumbing new depths of sadness, surfacing just to glumly smirk at Samantha and tell her she's really fine, really? Sounds like a hit!
Let's be honest, part 1 of 2: Blake Lively will never do better in her career than 'Gossip Girl.' Let's be honest, part 2 of 2: 'Serena van der Woodsen' is aged-down Carrie Bradshaw with double the fur coats and half the years spent chemically treating her hair. We'll run through a few more options, but Blake should be looking forward to some calls from the same CW executives who keep renewing her show.
We think the one thing that could have been improved about Carrie is if she jutted her jaw out madly every time Aidan toyed with her emotions. With a framing device about Carrie's shrink helping her get over heartbreak, Keira Knightley could continue her performance as this pathological, emotionally manipulative, addicted-to-pain and yet hyper-ashamed character from "A Dangerous Method"--she'd just need to subtract the jut of the jaw to convince us she was really Carrie.
This individual boasts Sarah Jessica Parkerian super-curly hair--and an ability to write lacerating phrases about every gent who wrongs her, an ability made the more useful for her laserlike ability to find exactly the wrong guy each time. Scratch Blake Lively. If Taylor Swift ever wants to get even more into fashion than simply posing for a 'Vogue' cover and also act a bit, she could play this part. We simply have to wonder if she'll take it!
SHE’S PERFECT!!! YEP mary kate is da one!
You should get an unknown actress, like a rookie
Blake Lively or Ashlee Simpson were GREAT choices!
I am a writer (on the side) and I feel one and the same with Carrie. I feel I could really play her. Would you interview a very “competitive rookie?”