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Please, no more Sex for Chris Noth
Mr. Big wants to move on to something new like, say, Law & Order
By BILL HARRIS - Toronto Sun (SUN MEDIA)
Mr. Big is buried, but Detective Mike Logan is very much alive. Welcome to the spiritual world of actor Chris Noth.
Tomorrow Noth will reprise his old Law & Order role of Mike Logan when he joins the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The show will air at 7 p.m. on CTV -- strangely early for such a grisly drama, don't you think? -- and at 9 p.m. on NBC.
In recent years, however, Noth got in touch with his sensitive side as Sarah Jessica Parker's main love interest, Mr. Big, on Sex And The City.
"Big is dead!" Noth shouted good-naturedly in response to a Sex And The City question during a conference call on Thursday.
"In the movie, he died. They didn't make the movie, but he had a heart attack and died."
Condolences, Carrie!
Now, in the absence of a Sex And The City movie that was planned but never got off the ground, the world has managed to soldier on. But apparently that's more than we can say for poor Mr. Big.
The resilience of Det. Logan is a different matter.
Noth will be partnered with Annabella Sciorra in half of the Law & Order: CI episodes this season. Alternating episodes will feature incumbents Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe. Occasionally there will be a special two-hour episode in which all four stars appear together (the first of those is set to air in November), but otherwise it will be a half-and-half proposition.
You'll remember Sciorra, by the way, as the crazy car saleswoman who had a stormy romantic relationship with Tony (does he have any other kind?) on The Sopranos.
Anyway, since Noth acrimoniously parted ways with Law & Order in 1995 after five seasons, he has not been shy about expressing his frustration with the format.
So why would Noth agree to return to something he had come to loathe?
"Dick Wolf made me an offer I couldn't refuse," said Noth with a laugh, referring to the creative force behind the three Law & Order franchises.
"It's a different format, the procedure format. The stories on Law & Order are like Sherman's march to Atlanta. Actors have been B***hing about that since Law & Order began. The danger comes when you try to force character into it, to get attention, where maybe it's not warranted. It's hard for me to even look at the first six episodes of Law & Order I did back in 1990. You see a young actor desperately trying to say, 'I'm a character.'
"But look, it's a great gig. I've been doing lots of stuff outside it, but it's not like there's just amazing material everywhere around you."
Clearly Noth missed the series debut of The Ghost Whisperer.
But seriously, he's right. And even when you're part of a well-regarded and popular show, it can get on your nerves.
"Although Sex And The City was a great show and I loved that for what it was, the response to it became so much more than the show," Noth said. "That became, in a sense, annoying. So it was great to go back to something I knew, but I could explore more, recreate, bring more nuance."
Noth could have benefitted from some nuance when he was asked a tongue-in-cheek question about Det. Logan possibly interviewing Mr. Big as a suspect for some crime.
"Probably as a serial rapist," Noth said.
That prompted some nervous laughter from Sciorra, who also was on the conference call.
But Noth, who has the reputation of being something of a loose cannon, didn't stop there. "No, there's absolutely no chance," he said. "There's about as much chance as we're going to win the Iraq war."
You practically could hear the eyes of NBC publicists going wide.
His verbal volatility notwithstanding, Noth has become one of the most recognizable faces on television, be it as Det. Logan, Mr. Big, or Det. Logan again.
Noth ventured into the world of fashion to describe the order in which he has portrayed his two most famous characters:
"It's like going from Moe Ginsburg, to Gucci, back to Moe Ginsburg."
And he takes a bite out of the Big Apple
Chris Noth is no fan of the spiffy, new New York.
"The city reflects the world of Sex And The City more than the old Law & Order," said Noth, the Law & Order and Sex And The City alumnus who has joined the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
"At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city."
Not that New York has become crime-free or anything. But the outspoken Noth is alarmed by the homogenization.
"I don't think they should have thrown out the baby with the bath water," Noth said. "Some of this is great. I ride the subways and it's great that they're safe. But what have we become? I like the fact we're safer, but that doesn't mean we have to become a mall, does it?
"It's terrible. We're starting to look like Hong Kong, or Singapore at worst. Pretty soon you won't be able to throw a piece of gum on the street."
So is there any chance of the old New York coming back?
"Maybe in 20 years, when Disney rots and looks like sort of a pornographic version," Noth said.
"It's not that I'm asking for that, and I don't know how to explain it. I just think there's room for the disenfranchised. I don't think we have to sweep it under the rug."
Please, no more Sex for Chris Noth
Mr. Big wants to move on to something new like, say, Law & Order
By BILL HARRIS - Toronto Sun (SUN MEDIA)
Mr. Big is buried, but Detective Mike Logan is very much alive. Welcome to the spiritual world of actor Chris Noth.
Tomorrow Noth will reprise his old Law & Order role of Mike Logan when he joins the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The show will air at 7 p.m. on CTV -- strangely early for such a grisly drama, don't you think? -- and at 9 p.m. on NBC.
In recent years, however, Noth got in touch with his sensitive side as Sarah Jessica Parker's main love interest, Mr. Big, on Sex And The City.
"Big is dead!" Noth shouted good-naturedly in response to a Sex And The City question during a conference call on Thursday.
"In the movie, he died. They didn't make the movie, but he had a heart attack and died."
Condolences, Carrie!
Now, in the absence of a Sex And The City movie that was planned but never got off the ground, the world has managed to soldier on. But apparently that's more than we can say for poor Mr. Big.
The resilience of Det. Logan is a different matter.
Noth will be partnered with Annabella Sciorra in half of the Law & Order: CI episodes this season. Alternating episodes will feature incumbents Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe. Occasionally there will be a special two-hour episode in which all four stars appear together (the first of those is set to air in November), but otherwise it will be a half-and-half proposition.
You'll remember Sciorra, by the way, as the crazy car saleswoman who had a stormy romantic relationship with Tony (does he have any other kind?) on The Sopranos.
Anyway, since Noth acrimoniously parted ways with Law & Order in 1995 after five seasons, he has not been shy about expressing his frustration with the format.
So why would Noth agree to return to something he had come to loathe?
"Dick Wolf made me an offer I couldn't refuse," said Noth with a laugh, referring to the creative force behind the three Law & Order franchises.
"It's a different format, the procedure format. The stories on Law & Order are like Sherman's march to Atlanta. Actors have been B***hing about that since Law & Order began. The danger comes when you try to force character into it, to get attention, where maybe it's not warranted. It's hard for me to even look at the first six episodes of Law & Order I did back in 1990. You see a young actor desperately trying to say, 'I'm a character.'
"But look, it's a great gig. I've been doing lots of stuff outside it, but it's not like there's just amazing material everywhere around you."
Clearly Noth missed the series debut of The Ghost Whisperer.
But seriously, he's right. And even when you're part of a well-regarded and popular show, it can get on your nerves.
"Although Sex And The City was a great show and I loved that for what it was, the response to it became so much more than the show," Noth said. "That became, in a sense, annoying. So it was great to go back to something I knew, but I could explore more, recreate, bring more nuance."
Noth could have benefitted from some nuance when he was asked a tongue-in-cheek question about Det. Logan possibly interviewing Mr. Big as a suspect for some crime.
"Probably as a serial rapist," Noth said.
That prompted some nervous laughter from Sciorra, who also was on the conference call.
But Noth, who has the reputation of being something of a loose cannon, didn't stop there. "No, there's absolutely no chance," he said. "There's about as much chance as we're going to win the Iraq war."
You practically could hear the eyes of NBC publicists going wide.
His verbal volatility notwithstanding, Noth has become one of the most recognizable faces on television, be it as Det. Logan, Mr. Big, or Det. Logan again.
Noth ventured into the world of fashion to describe the order in which he has portrayed his two most famous characters:
"It's like going from Moe Ginsburg, to Gucci, back to Moe Ginsburg."
And he takes a bite out of the Big Apple
Chris Noth is no fan of the spiffy, new New York.
"The city reflects the world of Sex And The City more than the old Law & Order," said Noth, the Law & Order and Sex And The City alumnus who has joined the cast of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
"At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city."
Not that New York has become crime-free or anything. But the outspoken Noth is alarmed by the homogenization.
"I don't think they should have thrown out the baby with the bath water," Noth said. "Some of this is great. I ride the subways and it's great that they're safe. But what have we become? I like the fact we're safer, but that doesn't mean we have to become a mall, does it?
"It's terrible. We're starting to look like Hong Kong, or Singapore at worst. Pretty soon you won't be able to throw a piece of gum on the street."
So is there any chance of the old New York coming back?
"Maybe in 20 years, when Disney rots and looks like sort of a pornographic version," Noth said.
"It's not that I'm asking for that, and I don't know how to explain it. I just think there's room for the disenfranchised. I don't think we have to sweep it under the rug."