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New Year's Eve

Coverage by Nobuhiro Hosoki

Story : New Year's Eve celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.

Opens December 9, 2011

Runtime:1 hr. 57 min.

 

Interview with Actress Sara Jessica Parker

 

(Q) : You're character in this film is a mother, very conscious of her child. How are you in real life about your kids?

(Sara Jessica Parker) : Well, I don't really relate to her. I think she's at a very different phase of parenting than I am and she's a single mother which is very, very different. I certainly can relate to the kind of care, the kind of concern that she feels about her daughter. It's just that right now my children, my daughters are two and my son is nine. They very much want me around. It's kind of the opposite.

They're very interested in my presence, and the character that I play, her daughter is really illustrating quite clearly that she wants to be an independent person which is totally appropriate for her age. So, I don't relate to the story so much. As a mother I can certainly relate to being concerned about the safety and whereabouts of a child. That's, like, no matter what age I think you just do.

(Q) : Do you actually spend time with your children on New Year's Eve or what do you plan on doing?

(Sara Jessica Parker) : We pretty much always spent it with the same people every year if we can, if everyone is around. It's not that radical. It's just being with people that you know and love. It's not a big, big celebration. It's just friends and sometimes some family, not always. It just depends.

(Q) : 'Sex and the City' was phenomenon all over the world. I'm sure that with that kind of success it becomes difficult to have a normal life. Have you encountered that?

(Sara Jessica Parker) : Not really. I suppose you could allow it to restrict you, but living in New York you're out on the street everyday. There's just no way around it and that's kind of the way that I want to live my life. I go to the grocery store on my own and I take my son to school. I take my daughters to school. I find a cab, jump on the subway.

So, even if it pretended to put limitations on me in some way, I probably wouldn't allow that to be the case. I mean, it's changed my life in ways, but it's a city and it's filled with people and I like it like that.

(Q) : Do you ever get to wear casual clothes like a product of UNIQLO and you let kids wear them?

(Sara Jessica Parker) : Everyday of my life. Every single day. I take my kids to school and dress like that. Being a mother, there's a sort of practical…it dictates the way that you dress.

I'm on my hands and knees the floor of the kitchen three times a day, taking my kids to school through snowdrifts and rainstorms and anything else that the weather brings. I can't wear high heels and fancy clothes to serve chilly in a lunchroom. I guess you could, actually. Who says that you can't? I don't, lets just put it that way.

(Q) : Garry Marshall is kind of known for directing films with big ensemble casts. Can you talk about working with him?

(Sara Jessica Parker) : He's great. He's wonderful. I think it's the reason that everyone wanted to do this, just to be around him. He has years and years of experience. He's incredibly funny. He's so smart about what is funny and how to be helpful and his notes in a scene are very specific. He's incredibly charming, and I'm not surprised, I think that he could get whatever he wanted, whatever actor he wanted.

(Sara Jessica Parker) : It's comfortable on his sets?

(Sara Jessica Parker) : It is and it's happy. I personally could listen to him tell stories all day long. He's  a great raconteur and can really hold court. People want to be around him and I can understand why now.

(Q) : Abigail Breslin has really grown up quickly. What was it like working with her? I almost didn't know that was her.

(Sara Jessica Parker) : I know. I guess those years, like you really do grow up in those years. You would notice that kind of change. It makes sense. She was a little girl when she made that movie, and then I think ten to fifteen or eleven to fifteen, or even twelve to fifteen, whatever that spread was of time, those are significant changes in a young person's life. She's beautiful.

(Q) : What was it like shooting in Time Square like that?

(Sara Jessica Parker) : Well, we were shooting in April though –

(Q) : But it was still in Time Square –

(Sara Jessica Parker) : I was actually never in Time Square. I was way north. I was up on 54th and 55th and 7th Avenue, but the beauty of the depth of field of a lens, those gorgeous long lenses, you can create that kind of mass. You're feeling 7th Avenue and Time Square. It's kind of tricks. It goes all the way up for two blocks. It starts at 42nd and then it moves on north, north, north, right, and so I was never in the depth of the other part of that. I was way up north which was nice.

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