Carrie Bradshaw turns heads with her immaculate wardrobe and iconic Manolo Blahnik pumps, but you’ll rarely see the fictional fashionable writer pairing her favorite looks with painted nails.
Speaking with Glamour on Wednesday, Sarah Jessica Parker dished on the multiple reasons why her on-screen persona on “And Just Like That,” never pops open a bottle of nail polish.
“Carrie’s a writer, so she would have been typing originally on a proper typewriter,” Parker said.
”She would have learned typing in high school, and she was a practical writer and a necessary writer and a romantic writer.”
The “Sex and the City” actress added that manicures were unnecessary for her character because they “seemed (a) futile because it would always be messed up and (b) an obstacle on the speedy road toward thoughts being written.”
“It just never seemed that it was where Carrie would spend her time expressing herself.”
Aside from claiming nail polish doesn’t fit Bradshaw’s columnist lifestyle, the actress said fresh manicures weren’t ideal for the production process.
“We also don’t shoot in order,” Parker, 58, explained.
“You’re moving from scene to scene, so practically speaking, it’s problematic to have a nail color that’s got to match every single scene. It gets in the way of speed and economy.”
But as the HBO original aired season two on Tuesday, Parker teased viewers will see her character flaunting dark nail polish for a few scenes in the eight episode season.
“I thought it would be interesting to do, given the outfits and given the environment in which those scenes take place,” the actress said.
Executive producer Michael Patrick King chimed in that he was shocked to see Parker on set with bold nails while filming in Brooklyn.
“I thought, Wow, she’s wearing nail polish! And it’s a dark nail polish, which is interesting and surprising,” King said.
Speaking about the personality of the “And Just Like That” character, King added, Carrie Bradshaw is spontaneous.
“She decides, ‘I’m going to wear this or that. I’m going to wear this long slip tutu to go get coffee. And, oh, maybe I’ll put on nail polish tonight.’ What’s great about the character is she is not guarded by rules. Even rules she makes up.”
Bradshaw’s bold nails will be highly visible as King hints it is hard to miss them with the notably tiny purse she holds in the scene.
While Parker attributed her bare nail look to years on screen playing Bradshaw, it appears the “Hocus Pocus” actress adopted the look off-screen.
Speaking to People in 2016, she said, “My nails are just buffed and clean. I use my hands a lot. I cook. I clean. I do laundry.
“[Nail polish] is not practical in my life given what my hands need to do every day! But for a red carpet, I will wear a dark green or something specific.”
