Sarah Jessica Parker on new SATC movie: "I hope we've done right by our (gay) audience..."

I've loved Sarah Jessica Parker ever since she kept twirling around on the beach in front of Steve Martin in "LA Story" (I missed the whole Broadway ("Annie") and early television stardom ("Square Pegs"). But I really became a mega-fan from the time the first episode of "Sex and the City" aired. I've never interviewed her and the closest I've gotten to her was backstage at the Golden Globe Awards in 2001 when she ran by me holding her award.

This is my set-up for saying that I filled with envy that EOnline.com columnist Marc Malkin got to interview SJP herself before she jetted off to London for the start of an almost two-week European tour in support of Sex and the City movie. This comes on the heels of Marc's terrific interview with Janet Jackson last month. You go boy!

Here are some tidbits with the link to the whole thing at the end:

How many outfits do you bring with you for the press tour?
[Laughs.] Probably more than is necessary. But they've really got us busy over there, and we have a lot of work to do, so we are required to wear clothes. It's the law. That's how I rationalize it.

Did you watch some of the episodes to get back into your role for the movie?
Any excuse to not look at myself is preferable. And in my opinion, the script just really stood on its own. [Director and writer] Michael Patrick King has such skill in telling these women's stories. We didn't have any time to rehearse at all, so he said to all of us, "You all have been rehearsing for six years." It's strange how much muscle memory there is in a role.

The new issue of Vogue just came out with you on the cover. The shots of you and Chris Noth are amazing. The chemistry is still there.
It was incredibly easy with Chris. We stay in touch, we email, and we're really good friends, and I just adore him. I just adore being around him.

I asked a bunch of friends what they would ask if they could ask you one question, and at least five said they wanted to know which your favorite episode was.
I'm very bad at picking favorites, because I'm one of eight kids and I always heard my mother saying, "I will never pick a favorite among the eight." But I have particular fondness for the early episodes, because we were just figuring out how we wanted to tell these stories. One episode in particular is "Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys," because it's kind of dark and there's something very fresh about the storytelling.

Where do you keep all your awards? There are a lot!
I have them affectionately cluttered on a shelf in my office.

Tell me about the new Sex and the City book.
You know, we haven't talked about it with anyone else. We did this book for the movie, and what is amazing that no one realizes is that we had to go to print before the final cut of the movie. So there are scenes in the book that are cut from the movie. I just got my first copy, and it's kind of unbelievable, because it's like a version on paper of a director's cut.

I have to tell you that us gay boys are going crazy for the movie. Two people have asked me today if I have a ticket for opening day. It's like a gay bar mitzvah. And you know what, it's already sold out in Hollywood. We have to go to the Valley!
Oh, that's even better! There's great Mexican food in the Valley. But that's great! I hope it makes you all happy. I hope we've done right by our audience.

To read Mark's interview with SJP in it's entirety, go to EOnline.com.