Sarah Jessica Parker has responded to what Sex and the City creator, Darren Star said about the ending of the series.
Star thought that the ending – where Carrie and Big end up married – was not supposed to happen, at least not if he had any say in the matter.
“I think the show ultimately betrayed what it was about, which was that women don’t ultimately find happiness from marriage,” the 54-year-old said during an interview on Kindle Singles.
But SJP (aka Carrie) has a very different view on the matter.
"As I recall, the way Carrie and Big married was something she wanted rather than a feeling that life was slipping away and she best settle quickly," the 50-year-old told Yahoo Style.
"I don’t think of it as someone diminishing herself by letting a man marry her — it always felt that she had arrived at that on her own," she told the publication.
Star said that the ending was decided on by other writers and producers. He said he didn't feel like he wrote the last episodes, admitting that at a certain point he had to let them follow their own vision.
"At the end, it became a conventional romantic comedy...But unless you're there to write every episode, you're not going to get the ending you want," he said.
Sarah Jessica Parker told Yahoo Style, "The beauty is we can all have lots and lots of opinions about lots of choices Carrie made that we object to or that we stand by. If that’s Darren’s feeling, I think it’s interesting!"
Over the six seasons of Sex and The City, which ran from 1998 to 2004, Sarah Jessica Parker's character (Carrie Bradshaw) had a bumpy ride with her on-again-off-again boyfriend 'Mr Big'.
Considering he left her stranded at the alter before they eventually got married at New York City's town hall, we could see how it would make sense for the pair to never get their happily ever after.
What do you think? Should it have ended with Bradshaw happily married?