Washington DC [US], May 18 : Actress Sarah Jessica Parker revealed that she almost turned down her iconic role in 'Sex and the City', reported Deadline.
Parker, a six-time Golden Globe winner, shared that after filming the pilot episode in 1997, she initially asked her agent to release her from the project once it was picked up as a series.
In a podcast with her co-star Kristin Davis, the actress shared that she had a "lovely" time filming the first episode, but she got "panicked" when the show got picked up.
"When the show was picked up, I panicked. I was like, I can't be on a TV show. I don't think I'm suited for that life. It's very hard to explain. It also kind of depressed me," said Parker as quoted by Deadline.
More than the series, the actress was depressed about the idea of doing the same thing "over and over again" while working in a television series.
"I think that it was the idea of doing the same thing over and over and over again. And I think I'd always been lucky that I got to be in a television series, and then it was over. I met great people, had a great experience, worked with great actors, great directors, thought the stories were interesting, wanted to do the shows, and they had shorter lives, maybe one or two seasons. And then I moved on," said Parker as quoted by Deadline.
The actress said that she felt "weird" working in the television series.
"The idea of a television series meant that I couldn't do all those things. And it just kind of felt like somebody was, you know, putting their hand over my mouth or something. It was very weird," said Parker as quoted by Deadline.
"I talked to my agents and I said, 'Hey, can you get me out of this?'" 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