--- description: Sarah Jessica Parker said she almost didn't take her famous Sex and the City role. title: SJP Almost Didn't "Commit" to Sex and the City image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sarah Jessica Parker Almost Didn't Do _Sex and the City_  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 29, 2016 12:16 PM CUT  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 29, 2016 12:16 PM CUT It turns out Carrie wasn’t always ready for commitment behind the scenes either: Sarah Jessica Parker said she almost didn’t take her famous _Sex and the City_ role. She told Jimmy Kimmel about her indecision on _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ Wednesday night, after he brought up how she was one of the first movie stars of her time to cross over to television. Parker said she “loved the script” for the show’s pilot when she read it, but she “completely forgot” about it after they filmed the first episode. [**_Read More_** **: Sarah Jessica Parker on Returning to Television, Hillary Clinton and Taking Selfies**](http://time.com/4509526/sarah-jessica-parker-on-divorce-and-sex-and-the-city/ "undefined") By the time the pilot did well and HBO decided to move forward with the series, Parker told Kimmel she said, “I don’t know, I don’t know. I feel like the moment passed. Maybe I’m not so keen to commit…” “But I was foolish,” Parker added to Kimmel, “The people wisely talked me out of it. And I went to the set the first day and never looked back.” Watch the full segment above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4512848/sjp-almost-didnt-do-sex-and-the-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4512848/sjp-almost-didnt-do-sex-and-the-city/"},"headline":"Sarah Jessica Parker Almost Didn't Do Sex and the City","datePublished":"2016-09-29T12:16:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:09.697Z","description":"The actress told Jimmy Kimmel she wasn't sure about taking the role of Carrie after doing the pilot","url":"https://time.com/4512848/sjp-almost-didnt-do-sex-and-the-city/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4512848/sjp-almost-didnt-do-sex-and-the-city/","name":"Sarah Jessica Parker Almost Didn't Do Sex and the City"}}]}] ```