Sarah Jessica Parker covers the January issue of InStyle and yes, we’re already getting the January 2017 covers. I won’t say that this year has flown by, but it does feel like the past few months have gone by in the blink of an eye. I’m still sitting around here, thinking it’s September. Anyway, SJP is promoting her HBO show Divorce, which I already believe will prove itself to be even more white-privilege-y and one-percenty than HBO’s Girls. But we’ll see! SJP talks to InStyle about why she decided to go back to HBO, and she chats about her style and more. Some highlights:
On her style influences as a young woman: “…street imagery and girls on the subway more than anything. I was like, ‘How can I do that? How can I afford to do that? What’s my version of that?’ Honestly, thrift stores played such a huge part in my life before Sex and the City. And, of course, my mom was the biggest influence. She had pretty firm ideas about how we would dress.”
On the evolution of her style: “I dress based on what I have. I’m not a huge shopper, but I love beautiful things. To be able to borrow them is ridiculously fortunate, and I enjoy every second of that. I have a pretty standard wardrobe, though I’ve got wonderful shoes. That’s more so the case now. I genuinely don’t know what people think of me or want from me.”
On playing a less-than-enviable character in HBO’s Divorce: “It’s taken me a long time to find anybody who I thought had as much potential as [Sex and the City’s] Carrie Bradshaw, who was as complicated, human, layered, and objectionable yet understandable, relatable yet foreign. People think she was a second skin for me, but she wasn’t. I didn’t know her at first. She was different from me as anybody I’d ever played or known. So I feel like Frances is equally as interesting and unknown to me.”
On deleting her Twitter: “I don’t have the constitution for Twitter. It’s a boneyard, a feast of vitriol. I just don’t want to participate in it. But on Instagram people tend to be more civilized. And they can disagree and have objections, but I don’t find it as mean-spirited a community.”
On handling celebrity as a parent: “We talk about it with the kids to the degree that they want to, but we don’t do it unsolicited…Like any parent, I just try to be present, pay attention, ask questions, and then allow them the freedom to monitor themselves. Hopefully, they’ll live by our example. It’s hard, because you want to give them freedom, but as a parent you have to be willing to not be liked by your child sometimes.”
Twitter is “a boneyard, a feast of vitriol.” Eh. While it’s difficult to be a woman on the internet full-stop, I don’t really believe that somehow Instagram followers are nicer than Twitter followers or vice versa. And the stories behind SJP leaving Twitter are kind of interesting too – she left Twitter after the Met Gala, when no one understood her silly Hamilton-cosplay outfit and SJP went a little bit crazy trying to defend it online. But there were other incidents too, like tweeters talking sh-t about her kids. Basically, if SJP doesn’t want to be on Twitter, God bless. But the trolls will still find her on Instagram, I’m just saying.
As for what she says about her complex character on Divorce… I think she’s already preparing herself for the thinkpieces about why her character is an awful, privileged whiner. Let the games commence!
Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of InStyle.
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