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Sarah Jessica Parker says she panicked when Sex and the City was picked up by HBO: 'I didn't want to do a TV show!'

Sarah Jessica Parker reveals why she was reluctant to play Carrie Bradshaw beyond the pilot of 'Sex and the City,' despite having previously worked on other TV shows.

"I panicked," she told Davis about learning that the cable network wanted to move forward with the series. While Parker acknowledged with fondness the fact that she had done TV before — including the shows Equal Justice, A Year in the Life, and the underrated early '80s high school comedy Square Pegs — the experience "also kind of depressed me," so she was reluctant to return to the small screen. Sarah Jessica Parker was no stranger to TV, having starred in the early '80s show 'Square Pegs' with Amy Linker.

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