Ahead of theSex and the Cityrevival,Willie Garsonis reminiscing about his time on the original series.
The 57-year-old actor is reprising his role as Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker)’s best friend Stanford Blatch in the upcoming HBO Max showAnd Just Like That…On Tuesday, he dished on working with a few of his former costars during an interview withUs Weekly.
While no one was unpleasant, Garson did note that Mikhail Baryshnikov (who played Carrie’s love interest Aleksandr Petrovsky in the final season) was the most difficult to interact with due to a cultural barrier.
“I’m not Russian, so it wasvery hard to make conversation with Mikhail,” Garson toldUs. “Not because he’s bad or mean, he’s just very Russian.”
TheWhite Collaralum then broke down what a conversation with Baryshnikov was like, in his experience.
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“You’d say, like, ‘Misha, what’d you do last night?’ and he would literally say, ‘Dinner,’ but just kind of, like, ending the conversation,” Garson explained. “But it’s just a different way of living. And I would [jokingly] tell him, ‘Well, I went to studio 54 and did cocaine off of Grace Jones last night. So I had a better night.’ No, I never [did that].”
“I love Liza so much and she was such a player and came to play hard. She worked so hard on this song and dance number,” he toldUs.
Garson is joining many of his fellowSex and the Cityalums in the HBO Max revival. In July, he was spotted filmingAnd Just Like That…outside the Manhattan School for Music in New York City. He seemed to be involved in a friendly chat with Parker, 56.
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StarsCynthia NixonandKristin Daviswere also photographed alongside their on-screen husbands, Evan Handler andDavid Eigenberg, respectively.
Last week, Parker was seen filming withChris Noth, who played her love interest John James “Mr. Big” Preston in the originalSex and the Cityfrom 1998 to 2004. He reprised the role for the show’s subsequent films in 2008 and 2010. (Carrie and Big got married in the firstSex and the Citymovie.)
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Parker, Davis, 56, and Nixon, 55,announcedAnd Just Like That…in January. The show will follow Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Davis) and Miranda Hobbes (Nixon) navigating the ups and downs of life and friendship in their 50s. Their former cast mate,Kim Cattrall, willnot be reprising her roleas Samantha Jones.
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The cast includes Sara Ramírez, Sarita Choudhury, Nicole Ari Parker and Karen Pittman.Bridget Moynahan, who played Big’s ex-wife Natasha, was also recentlyspotted on set.
And Just Like That…is slated to premiere later this year on HBO Max.
source: people.com
