Sarah Jessica Parker Says It Was Hard For Her to "Not Judge" Carrie Bradshaw

Sarah Jessica Parker is currently filming her new HBO series, Divorce, and a recent glimpse at the set gave us major Carrie Bradshaw vibes. Though her new character and show are much different from Sex and the City, the actress has still managed to draw comparisons to the iconic role she played from 1998 to 2004. In a new interview about "transformation" with WSJ Magazine, Parker opened up about the extreme differences between her and Carrie Bradshaw and how it was often hard "to not judge her" for a lot of the things she said and did during the course of the show. She said:

"I love the process of becoming somebody else, but the work to become so, and to be convincing, is still very challenging. Every project is brand new and scary. People probably don't realize that Carrie Bradshaw was radically different from who I was, who I continue to be. I think that sometimes because we look alike and live in the same city and haunt the same neighborhoods, that it was sort of like I was playing in the sandbox, when in truth it took real work every day to be her, to understand her, to not judge her. I'm working on a new series for HBO now. The character I'm playing is incredibly different from me in many ways — she handles complexity differently than I do, her marriage is different from my own, and she's struggling financially in a way that I don't at this point in my life. But that's what I love. I still love the idea of being somebody else."

If you're still as in love with Sex and the City as the rest of us, be sure to check out 43 style lessons we learned from Carrie and all the reasons the show is still so important, even over a decade later.