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Sarah Jessica Parker Asked Her Agent To “Get Me Out” Of ‘Sex & the City’ After Pilot

Although she'll always be a Carrie, Sarah Jessica Parker almost turned down her iconic starring role in 'Sex and the City'.

Sarah Jessica Parker in 'Sex & the City'HBO/Courtesy Everett Collection The 6x Golden Globe winner recently explained why she originally asked her agent to “get me out” of the HBO series after it was picked up following the filming of the pilot episode in June 1997. '” recalled Parker, noting she offered to do multiple movies for the network instead, but her agent told her, “Do it for a year, and if you don’t want to do it anymore, we won’t do it.” Based on Candace Bushnell’s New York Observer column, Sex and the City ran for six seasons on HBO from 1998 to 2004, followed by two theatrically-released feature films in 2008 and 2010, as well as the CW prequel series The Carrie Diaries(2013-’14).

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