“You’re supposed to be in love at midnight.
You’re supposed to be in a couple.
“I love that sequence,” Parker tells EW.
Credit: James Devaney/WireImage
It took a lot of work to make the New York scene winter-ready.
“All the snow is fake, it’s all fake.
The weather isn’t the only series first that the scene brings.
And how she looks when she does it!
“But even in a hurry, Carrie chose to be in amoment.
She still recognized what day it was.”
“I remember those boots so well,” Parker tells EW.
That was all real.”
Luckily for him, Parker had just the fix.
“He came home and he said to me,I heard a cover of ‘Auld Lang Syne.
I could not get over that.
“She played it for me and I was like,Oh yeah,” King says.
It’s not quite as sad, it’s more female.
The scene was moved to New Year’s Eve, with all its drama of midnight and romantic significance.
“That was something that [Pupo] chose to do,” King recalls.
Of course, they would go on to get married in 2010’sSex and the City 2(Liza Minnelliofficiates!
“Oh God no!”
“In the series they were always there to save each other.
It’s a very potent thing.”
“I just put it over the end of that scene and that’s them just laughing.
That’s all you better see.”
“It was like nothing else mattered except connecting and finding home,” Parker says.
“I just loved it.”
Additional reporting bySamantha Highfill.
To read more on holiday film favorites,order the December issueofEntertainment Weeklyor find it on newsstands now.
