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After shooting the pilot for\\xa0Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker told HBO she\\xa0didn\'t want to\\xa0go through with the project. But after\\xa0the first day\\u2019s taping, she says, she "didn\'t want to be anywhere else." Parker is now indelibly\\xa0associated with Carrie Bradshaw\\u2014one of the most prominent women in the history of television. She tells\\xa0Here\\u2019s The Thing\\u2019s\\xa0Alec Baldwin\\xa0that\\xa0she was surprised to be\\xa0considered for the part. Sarah Jessica\\xa0has a fully-formed casting philosophy: she confesses to\\xa0Alec that she tends to overcompensate when a co-star brings less than ideal energy to a part.

"You know what they won\'t bring," she says. "And\\xa0you end up projecting onto the other person what you wish they were bringing into the scene, and you become a bad actor."

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