Tuesday December 19, 2000

Sarah Jessica Parker

There's a change of scenery in store for Sarah Jessica Parker. She's going from big city on the small screen to small town on the big screen. But as jerry penacoli reports, one thing about Parker will never change.

Call it "sexless and the small town" -- Sarah Jessica Parker's new movie "State and Main" takes sex out of the city with some very funny results.

Sarah Jessica's always kept it clean, she's known for baring only the soul and spirit of the characters she plays. She says, "I've never done nudity. I don't do nudity. I would like to think that I'm known hopefully for the work I've done, and not the body parts I've shown."

So there's a silly irony that Sarah's starring in David Mamet's new comedy "State and Main." It's a movie about a movie, in which Parker portrays an actress, known for baring it all. When asked if people know what her character's breasts look like, she says, "Know? They can draw them from memory."

On her hit HBO series '"Sex and The City," Sarah's character Carrie Bradshaw has managed to be sexy without ever showing any skin, while some of her fellow cast members have bared it all. Sarah says, "I think it's wonderful that they feel comfortable doing it, as long as people don't feel exploited and feel it's gratuitous, I think that's grand."

But it's not an issue of showing skin that makes Parker nervous, instead it's the caliber of talent that surrounds her. In "State of Main" she stars with Alec Baldwin, Patti Lupone, and William H. Macy.

Sarah Jessica Parker is lovely and talented and has proven you can be smart and sexy in the city or out of it… always with a healthy dose of humility.

She says, "You should approach the job, for me, as if it's the last chance I have. And who says it won't be."

Besides her movie and TV work, Parker is also a big UNICEF advocate. She's been raising money for the organization since she was six.