“Intercourse and the Metropolis” creator Candace Bushnell’s one-woman present covers her most well-known creation in very private element: In an interview with Individuals printed Saturday, Bushnell revealed which storylines from the favored HBO sequence have been primarily based on her life — and famous “individuals are normally stunned” by the reply.
“Initially, Carrie Bradshaw was mainly me, and that’s one of many issues that’s an enormous a part of the present, it’s about ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’, how I created ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’, how onerous I labored to get there and why I invented Carrie Bradshaw,” Bushnell mentioned.
Within the a part of the stage present referred to as “Actual or Not Actual,” Bushnell tells the viewers simply what got here from her personal life.
“The present is fairly ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’–oriented. I discuss my Charlotte, my Samantha and my Miranda,” she defined. “Carrie Bradshaw is the character that was primarily based on me, in all probability nearer at the start of the sequence, after which it takes on a lifetime of its personal, which is implausible since you need that to occur.”
“Persons are normally stunned by, in some methods, how the present mirrored my very own life. Definitely at the start,” she additionally mentioned. “Audiences aren’t so conscious of that. I didn’t find yourself with my Mr. Huge. I do inform that story about our breakup.”
Bushnell developed her one-woman present in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Nevertheless it simply appeared completely unattainable. It appeared unattainable to write down a play for any person who had no connections; it simply wasn’t gonna occur,” she instructed the outlet.
However she caught with it, and has since carried out the present all over the world.
“I simply saved doing it. I’ve performed it thrice at Café Carlyle. I’ve truly performed it all around the world. I’ve performed it twice at The London Palladium to a sold-out crowd,” she mentioned. “There have been issues that have been actually stunning that initially, I didn’t even know what it was going to be.”
Learn the interview with Candace Bushnell at Individuals.
