Post by maherjunkie on Dec 2, 2010 14:01:45 GMT -5
Sex and the City 'ruined' New York: Chris Noth
LOS ANGELES — Though still a New Yorker at heart, Chris Noth admits it’s become easier to spend his time on the west coast. “New York’s changed a lot, but I still keep my place there. I’d never give that up,” he says. “I mean, let’s face it, it’s become a bank and a drug store. Sex and the City ruined it.”
Noth is in L.A. now to promote his latest TV gig, The Good Wife, now in its second season. But that’s not what he really feels like discussing. “I’m sort of the recurring guest artist on it,” he says. “It’s not really my show.”
So what does he want to talk about? Well, how about the Tea Party?
“It’s a terrible time in America. It’s all partisanship,” he says. “A really smart politician doesn’t really have a chance, so we get all these yokels like the Tea Party, who say some of the most ignorant things imaginable and are able to survive.”
Playing a politician brought down by a sex and corruption scandal has given him some new insight.
“A really good politician doesn’t have much of a chance, unless he’s a f---ing saint. And nobody’s a saint,” Noth says. “John F. Kennedy would never be president today.” And he’s got a few theories as to how things got to be the way they are. Here’s a hint: "Tabloids aren’t helping. “
“It’s all so mundane now. You know, what shoes they’re wearing. ‘Look, stars pick up dog poop!’ Whatever these magazines are,” he says. “They’ve so dumbed our country down that look where we are politically. But that’s a world and a global phenomenon. And I think what people are doing is missing out on their lives by tuning into this fake celebrity s---. I’m always astounded, why people want things like pictures.”
So what about that other series he did, the one that ruined New York? Noth admits it’s still the thing he’s recognized for the most, though it’s another phenomenon he can’t quite wrap his head around.
“I’ve never understood that phenomenon,” he says. “I did a show that obviously had some kind of intense impact about this character that I played, that relationship with Carrie. But it’s a fantasy. Come on, look at the apartment she had.”
www.metronews.ca/edmonton/scene/article/707283--sex-and-the-city-ruined-new-york-chris-noth
LOS ANGELES — Though still a New Yorker at heart, Chris Noth admits it’s become easier to spend his time on the west coast. “New York’s changed a lot, but I still keep my place there. I’d never give that up,” he says. “I mean, let’s face it, it’s become a bank and a drug store. Sex and the City ruined it.”
Noth is in L.A. now to promote his latest TV gig, The Good Wife, now in its second season. But that’s not what he really feels like discussing. “I’m sort of the recurring guest artist on it,” he says. “It’s not really my show.”
So what does he want to talk about? Well, how about the Tea Party?
“It’s a terrible time in America. It’s all partisanship,” he says. “A really smart politician doesn’t really have a chance, so we get all these yokels like the Tea Party, who say some of the most ignorant things imaginable and are able to survive.”
Playing a politician brought down by a sex and corruption scandal has given him some new insight.
“A really good politician doesn’t have much of a chance, unless he’s a f---ing saint. And nobody’s a saint,” Noth says. “John F. Kennedy would never be president today.” And he’s got a few theories as to how things got to be the way they are. Here’s a hint: "Tabloids aren’t helping. “
“It’s all so mundane now. You know, what shoes they’re wearing. ‘Look, stars pick up dog poop!’ Whatever these magazines are,” he says. “They’ve so dumbed our country down that look where we are politically. But that’s a world and a global phenomenon. And I think what people are doing is missing out on their lives by tuning into this fake celebrity s---. I’m always astounded, why people want things like pictures.”
So what about that other series he did, the one that ruined New York? Noth admits it’s still the thing he’s recognized for the most, though it’s another phenomenon he can’t quite wrap his head around.
“I’ve never understood that phenomenon,” he says. “I did a show that obviously had some kind of intense impact about this character that I played, that relationship with Carrie. But it’s a fantasy. Come on, look at the apartment she had.”
www.metronews.ca/edmonton/scene/article/707283--sex-and-the-city-ruined-new-york-chris-noth