Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie in Sex and the City: The Movie Courtesy of New Line Cinema

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Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker has apologized three times and the interview has not even begun. She had to cancel the interview the day before and was a little late arriving at New York's Ritz-Carlton hotel due to a stomach virus. "It's been like a crime scene at our home. I'm not kidding you. In a million years I wouldn't have missed yesterday," she apologizes. Although a little wan, she looks every inch the fashionista-cum-columnist who graced television screens and magazines since the inception of SATC. "This is Halston," she says of her dress when asked. "It's borrowed. My purse is borrowed. It's Fendi... And these are my own tiny diamond earrings," she says touching her earlobes. "And the fragrance is mine."

When the HBO series ended in 2004 after a fabulous, Cosmopolitan-drenched six-season run, the rumor mill immediately began churning with whispers of a big-screen adaptation. It took several years and a bit of finesse to convince all four to return, but in 2007 New Line revealed plans to back a flick about the fab four's continuing adventures.

Ever since, the Internet has been abuzz with rumors and possible plot spoilers (does someone die?), set location fakeouts and possible dream sequences, paparazzi shots, behind-the-scenes squabbles, and, of course, tantalizing photos of SJP's outfits. Parker sets the record straight about the controlling aspects of being a producer, why she is so different from her character and how many pairs of Manolo Blahniks she really owns.

Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City: The Movie Courtesy of New Line Cinema

Does finally making the movie feel like a final destination in a long journey?
It's very hard to imagine a final destination point for these characters. In some ways the idea of not working with these people again is kind of just too awful to ponder. But this was a remarkable process to get this movie back up and running: it took about a year and a half for me and Michael Patrick [King, the exec producer/director/writer on the TV series and producer/director/writer on the movie]. Just to have had that experience was grand. So honestly, if this is the final destination, what a privilege! And to think beyond this now is a little bit like putting the cart before the horse. It's extraordinary that we got to do this movie.

In the five years since the series ended, it has become even more popular. It's shown all over the world and in syndication in the US. Do you feel that while the show ended the character continued and is still connected to you and your world?
I definitely feel it. I feel it more now than I did then. And I think [it's] in large part due to being just broadcast on regular commercial television. More people are seeing the show and therefore you're a much more recognizable person. Being on HBO, it's like working in a boutique versus working in Macy's; [in] a boutique there's one door and in Macy's there's 800. And all of a sudden you're exposed to that many more people. It was shocking because the age [demographic] lowered. On HBO our audience tended to be a more sophisticated grown-up person — women, gay men. And then straight men came along. And then since it's been broadcast in other countries on just regular commercial television, the age has [included] teenagers. And there's things about that that I'm very uncomfortable with as the show [was] tailored for [an older audience]... Times have changed obviously and girls are much more sophisticated than when I was growing up. But, yeah, I see it's grown enormously.