We recently chatted with Law & Order: Criminal Intent stars Chris Noth and Alicia Witt. To our delight, we got a little surprise scoop about Sex & the City: The Movie!
Q: What was it like balancing filming Law & Order and Sex & the City: The Movie?
CN: Oh, crazy! Crazy! Yeah, it’s pretty schizo. Totally antithetical subject matter, feeling. It’s completely two different sets although for a movie I think they cover an enormous amount of ground as, you know, they may not be doing eight or nine pages like we do. But they cover what they do – I mean, they cover a lot, you know. They’re going at a rapid pace. So both sets were positively exhausting in completely different ways. You got to get eight hours of sleep, especially for Law & Order. But it was, you know, it’s a romantic comedy so that it’s different in terms of timing and the use - you’re using a whole different set of instruments for it.
Q: Do you feel closer to one character (Logan or Mr. Big)?
CN: Oh, I can’t – it’s like choosing between your children or something!
Q: What do Logan and Mr. Big have in common if anything?
CN: They’re both New Yorkers, you know just different neighborhoods maybe… And, you know, I always joke – with Big I’m going from Gucci clothes to Logan’s, you know, Moe Ginsburg suits. But they’re both really great fun, great complete individuals with different points of view in different worlds. And our sets articulate that also. I mean, the set – our set on Law & Order, it’s a lot of hard work. We try to have fun, you know, together and have a lot of laughs. And you know, it’s – really it’s – I think there’s a little more testosterone. That’s why it’s a relief to have, you know, Alicia and Julianne, when she was here.
But the Sex & the City set, you know, I would say is a lot more obviously female oriented – a lot of emphasis on hair and makeup, which is always fun…
It’s great fun, and [they’re] both great characters. I’m lucky to have played two that have lasted as long as they have.
Q: Are you happy with the way the SATC script turned out?
CN: Yeah, I am very happy. I can honestly say from the writing and the way we – what we’ve shot that I’m pretty happy. I mean, it was – with the schedule and the sort of doing double duty, I was a little unsure of – if I could, you know, keep up with it.
Q: Are you pleased with the resolution for your character?
CN: It’s a continuation. I mean, I’m not sure anything needs to be resolved. They’re a part of each other’s lives, you know, through all the twists and turns, but it’s life I guess. But he’s, you know, a big part of her life.
Q: Can you tell whether your fans are from SATC fans or Law & Order from the way they approach you?
CN: Well, all I know is in the neighborhoods of Criminal Intent, you know, some of the fans wanted me to sign their gin bottles.
Q: So what do the SATC fans want you to sign?
CN: We were mobbed in Sex & the City on the first week. I mean, every set we were on there were 500 people with their camera phones, you know. I’ve never seen anything like it and they stayed there all day long… So it was pretty interesting. We’re pretty much – I mean, Law & Order is, I think, an accepted – you know, we’re like an old friend in New York. We’ve been around a while – it’s almost like a part of New York.
AW: You could definitely tell, especially with the female fans – the ones that were into Chris because of Mr. Big. And so that was so of expected, you know. There were always girls like with googly-eyed and just completely mad about him which is adorable.
But then this one day we were shooting a scene in a car and we were following another car which had the equipment in it and stuff. So there we were in the car with, you know, we’re sort of blocking traffic a little bit… We had to do a U-turn to go back to where we started from and shoot the scene again. And there was this huge truck that was being blocked by our little caravan.
And he started honking the horns furiously and he’s this big, burly guy, you know, mid-40s truck driver. And we figured, okay he’s just pissed off that the road ahead of him is blocked and he can’t get where he needs to go.
And he kept on honking and finally we were turning in front of him and he caught Chris’s eye. And he yelled out of the window of his car, “Marry Carrie! Marry Carrie!”
CN: We thought he as going to jump out and go you f*@#!^$s have been holiding me up all day. And it was like, when are you going to marry Carrie? That’s all he wanted.
Q: So in the words of a truck driver, when are you going to marry Carrie?
CN: Oh wow. You’ll have tune into the movie to find out…
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