Sarah Jessica Parker is the cover girl for the June issue of American Marie Claire. However, SJP isn’t the only interview. The story (complete piece here) reads like a love letter to Sex and the City, and all four women are interviewed. Uncomfortably, all of their careers are dissected too, and Marie Claire makes it clear who they think the career victor is: SJP. They also spend too much time harping on and on about whether the ladies get along. Hint: they get along well enough to promote the hell out of the movie and cash their checks, so yeah, who cares? By the way, SJP and her “enormous regrets” about not spending time with her twin girls tells the magazine that she’s seen to “every detail, every atom” of the movie. Of course.

SJP on her rumored animosity with Kim Cattrall: “When you’re on set, you’re working 90-hour weeks, you’re never home, you’re exhausted. There are times when all of us have been sensitive, and sometimes feelings get hurt. But I don’t have any regrets about how I’ve treated people.”

Kim Cattrall on the same: “The chemistry among the four of us is very strong. [Why the rumors?] Because the press has to put women in these boxes, rather than show them as the movie portrays them: working together and being powerful. Things just have to be explosive for no other reason than for people’s imaginations.”

Kristin Davis on how everyone gets along: “There was a very strange piece in one of the tabloids that said Kim and I would eat in the restaurant of our hotel and not sit together, which cracks me up,” she says, actually cracking up. “When I would get back from the set, I would go to the gym and get room service. I’m not a put-on-decent-clothes-and-go-to-the-hotel-restaurant person, but Kim is. The story was that we don’t like each other. Ridiculous!”

Cynthia Nixon, truth-teller: “It hasn’t always been smooth sailing,” she says. “But the idea that we’re somehow adversarial is ludicrous.”

Cattrall on what SATC meant for her career: “Sex and the City came along to me when I was in my 40s and already established as an actress,” she says. “And I thought, Wow! I’ve done all of that, and now this on top of it!”

Cynthia Nixon on her memories: “It was a whirlwind, and I’m sure I don’t remember one-tenth of what happened.”

Ugh. This is an actual line in the article: “But it’s Parker who has ridden the SATC wave to icon status, eclipsing her peers by a landslide.”

Cynthia Nixon on SJP: “We go to the theater together, or just go to one of our houses for dinner,” says Nixon. She and Parker have summer homes in neighboring towns, and their sons, who are the same age, are regular playmates.

Kristin Davis on the friendships: “When we first started, we would all drive out to the Hamptons together at 4 a.m. on a Friday night after shooting ended and see the sunrise as we arrived. I love those memories. We worked so many hours, just work work work work work. We were all so committed to making the show good. There wasn’t room for much else. I had my dog, and that was about it.”

Cattrall on the work schedule: “Nineteen-hour workdays are stressful, whether you’re driving a truck, working in a coal mine, or on a set and trying to be your brightest at 4 o’clock in the morning. But there’s a camaraderie that happened through all of that.”

Davis on aging and criticism: “When the last film opened, one critic began her story by discussing our faces! It was traumatizing. But that also gets at the amazing part. We didn’t start on this show when we were 20. Everyone knows how old we are, and we’re still getting to make movies.”

Will there be third SATC film? Nixon says maybe: “If Sarah Jessica and [writer/director] Michael Patrick [King] want to make another, I’m there. I’d go along with them blindfolded.”

SJP on Carrie’s style: “I’ve never revealed as much or been so daring or made quite as many triumphant mistakes as Carrie. But I’m now bolder than I would have been had I never played this part.”

[From Marie Claire]

Here’s the thing – I would totally be down with this film and any other films they wanted to make if only they would make the films more like the television show! You know, with jokes, and an actual plot that moved quickly, and some semblance of character development and genuine human emotion. Instead, I fear that this film will be just like the first one – a series of fashion shows, interspersed with hour-long Carrie-centric pity parties, with a dash of whining from Charlotte and a dash of hardcore emasculating bitch from Miranda. Oh, and camels. Let’s not forget the camels. I hate what they’ve done to a television show I once loved.

Individual photos courtesy of Marie Claire online. Cover courtesy of The Fashion Spot.