Sarah Jessica Parker & Dwayne Kennedy

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Jesse talks with Sarah Jessica Parker about her long, dynamic career, including her star roles in Sex and the City and the new HBO series Divorce. Plus, comedy from the legendary Dwayne Kennedy and music from the one singer we should all turn to when we're feeling down.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.9	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.3	Before she was the star of HBO Sex in the City, Sarah Jessica Parker found a lot of work
0:22.2	doing pretty typical supporting roles.
0:24.4	Like a lot of actors, you know, not the woman in the romcom who gets married to her soulmate
0:30.0	the woman with whom that woman dishes.
0:33.6	If you ask Sarah about it though, she'll tell it to you straight.
0:37.4	She wouldn't have had it any other way.
0:38.9	Maybe it's just the way I'm choosing to remember them, but those were always, for me, the
0:43.1	more interesting role anyway.
0:44.9	They weren't on screen as long and they never got to kiss anybody, but they always had
0:51.9	insight and they were a source of comfort and they were counsel and ears and eyes and witness
0:58.9	to, and you always knew that if they could just survive until college, the world was going
1:06.6	to be their oyster.
1:08.2	And maybe that's because that's how I felt.
1:11.6	It's Bullseye.
1:20.3	Coming up, I'll talk to Sarah Jessica Parker.
1:22.4	She's the star of HBO's new show Divorce in the middle of its first season.
1:27.1	She's a producer on the show.
1:28.8	She always knew what you wanted the tone to be like.
1:32.3	70's cinema played was the central inspiration for me.
1:37.5	I mean, that's what I kept circling around and I encouraged everybody else to circle around
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