The Sex and the City actress has a set of non-negotiables in her contract.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/imago820813837-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”Premiere du film ‘And just like that that…’ devant la tour Eiffel” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] It\u2019s no secret in Hollywood that Sarah Jessica Parker does not do nude scenes, at least if she can avoid them. Like a lot of actors, especially female ones, Parker is all too aware that gratuitous nude scenes are often snuck into the script at the director\u2019s discretion, despite adding little to no value to the plot. More often than not, they come at the expense of the actor\u2019s comfort on set.<\/p>\n Parker has always been a trailblazer when it comes to setting clear boundaries. In her HBO drama, Divorce<\/em>, for example, she had a non-nudity clause written into her contract. The same is true of Sex and the City<\/em> and And Just Like That<\/em>. In the latter two shows, Parker plays a sex columnist but rarely ever appeared in sex scenes and never nude. Sex and the City<\/em> ran from 1998 to 2004, during which time Parker turned her character Carrie Bradshaw into a perpetual cultural icon, essentially proving her point.<\/p>\n In fact, in a recent conversation on The Howard Stern Show<\/em>, she explained that her no-nudity rules have rarely been an issue in her career. \u2018Any time we\u2019ve had those conversations, we\u2019ve reached a decision where both parties felt they were getting what they needed,\u2019 she explained. \u2018When it\u2019s been written in and I\u2019ve had conversations with directors and\/ or writers, I never felt as though they were being cheated in some way.\u2019<\/p>\n However, there was one instance where things became \u2018pretty acrimonious\u2019 when a production team on a film Parker was working on tried to push her into a nudity scene against her will. \u2018I\u2019ve had a situation on set, post a discussion about no nudity being required to do the scene, and it became pretty acrimonious and really uncomfortable for me,\u2019 she explained. <\/p>\n \u2018So much so that I called my agent and said I thought we had been clear and had this conversation and now they\u2019re telling me I have to be nude tomorrow and they\u2019re making a lot of jokes about it on set. You know like, \u201cSarah Jessica is going to be nude in the bed tomorrow!\u201d. And it was all men on the set, so there was all of a sudden this kind of culture, and I didn\u2019t care for it.\u2019<\/p>\n Fortunately for Parker, she went on to reveal that her agent immediately FedExed her a plane ticket home for the following morning as a bargaining tool and then called the producers and said, \u2018this conversation will stop, if not, she\u2019s flying home in the morning\u2019. And it worked \u2013 they dropped the idea and didn\u2019t ask again.<\/p>\n Did her resolve hurt the film? Of course not. \u2018It was a massive success,\u2019 Parker points out. \u2018It was not necessary at all. It didn\u2019t take away from the story and it didn\u2019t take away for me not to be nude or uncomfortable.\u2019 The And Just Like That<\/em> star did not elaborate on which film she was referring to.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Naturally, Parker\u2019s privacy around intimacy and nudity extends to other parts of her life too. During the Howard Stern interview, she explained that it\u2019s one of the ways she\u2019s most different to her iconic Sex and the City<\/em> character. Even with her friends, she does not like to disclose details about her sex life. \u2018I have never been someone who has discussed intimacy with my closest friends,\u2019 she said. \u2018I\u2019m not against it and I think it\u2019s wonderful that people who need to and want to can have those conversations and I\u2019m very present for friends who want to discuss that, but I typically don\u2019t contribute.\u2019 She then paused and added, \u2018I\u2019m not religious and I come from a really progressive home, so I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m disinclined.\u2019<\/p>\n Of course, Sex and the City<\/em> wouldn\u2019t be the seminal cultural behemoth it is without sex and nudity. Parker\u2019s co-stars Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis, as well as hundreds of other actors who starred in the show over the years, all featured in several nude sex scenes throughout its run. But, as Parker points out, it should always be down to personal preference and what the individual actor is comfortable with.<\/p>\n \u2018I have no judgement about it at all,\u2019 she continued. \u2018I never wanted to do [nude scenes] and as long as the director didn\u2019t feel they were being cheated, I was happy to maintain that position. I always felt like it was a democratic part of the decision-making process \u2013\u00a0who feels comfortable doing what. Those who don\u2019t are free to tell the story in a different way.\u2019<\/p>\n It’s not a result of embarrassment either \u2013 Parker doesn\u2019t watch her own work back anyway. For anyone who has seen the opening episode of season three of And Just Like That<\/em>, yes, it means she was saved the embarrassment of rewatching her phone sex scene with John Corbett who plays Aidan Shaw. The scene sees the long-distance couple attempt phone sex while Carrie is half asleep in bed and Aidan is drunk in a parked truck outside his house. They are on very different pages when the call begins and Aidan, rather excruciatingly, spits into his own hand to hurry the process along while Carrie fakes it on the other end of the phone. Understandably, it became one of the most talked about (and cringed at) moments of the first episode.<\/p>\n All Parker had to say on the matter, particularly the spitting, was, \u2018You should probably reach out to Corbett. He\u2019s pretty open about these kinds of choices.\u2019 And as per usual, she remained poised, private and tight-lipped. \u2018I haven\u2019t seen most of Sex and the City<\/em>. And I haven\u2019t seen And Just Like That<\/em>.\u2019 No further questions.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sarah Jessica Parker now has a set of non-negotiables in her contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"kschwarz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10777"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10801,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions\/10801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘There was a kind of culture… and I didn’t care for it.’ \u2013 SJP<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]