And Just Like That, sequel to Sex and the City | Fan Confidence

Four fans of Sex and the City reveal to us their expectations for And Just Like That and take a look at their life

Olivia levy
Press

Rafaële Germain

With his chronicles “Je t’aime, moi non plus” at the beginning of the 2000s in Press, then with the success of his book Pink bra and black jacket, which has sold more than 80,000 copies, the author Rafaële Germain embodied the Quebec version of Carrie Bradshaw.

According to her, the three friends will always be as glamorous, older certainly, but with the same boundless energy and their drive legendary. “We will find them with lots of projects, furiously alive and in tune with the times! ”

“The whole series is built on these characters who have a quest, the desire to find the ideal man, to aspire to a happier life, both in their love life and in their professional life. They are not peaceful characters. They’re still laughing together, and what’s brought to the fore is the spontaneous character of the characters, and Mister Big seems to be still here… is there going to be an introspective look at the relationship with Big? ”

In her personal life, Rafaële Germain, who will celebrate his 45th birthday in a few days, believes to be appeased. “I no longer have this desire to look on the outside for what I miss on the inside. I no longer want to go out to trendy restaurants, I no longer have this drive-the ! Says the one who is married and has a 9-year-old daughter.

A bit like Miranda who moved to Brooklyn, Rafaële Germain moved a few years ago to Laval. “It’s not yet the trendy destination, but who knows? This may be the new Brooklyn! ”

Carrie has always been the one who inspired her the most. “He was the character with whom I found myself the most in common. Now I have fun by the fireside with my boyfriend and a few friends playing a good game of Scrabble! She laughs. What about Samantha? “She had all the fun in the world and maybe she lives in Laval and, like me, watches the sun go down over my river! ”

Marie Plourde

Series Sex and the City inspired Marie Plourde for her column “Les suppers de sacoches”, published in The Journal of Montreal, where she talked about her love life, her friends and her then Mr. Big. “This series set us free,” she says. We were able to express our desires, our fantasies. There was a wind of freedom blowing on the lives of these women, even in terms of clothing, we could wear sequins in the morning! ”

Marie Plourde watches the series today with detachment, with a tender and more critical gaze. “We were looking for the man of our life, we idealized him. It was a bit of a fairy tale from the 1990s. ”

The former TV host has always loved fashion. At the time, she was always on the lookout for novelties and trends, which is no longer the case today. “I was in a world of appearances. I broke away from it by leaving the communications field to go into municipal politics. I also devoted myself to my family life and my life as a mother [elle a une fille de 12 ans]. I focused on the content rather than the container, ”says the one who has been a borough councilor in the Mile End district since 2013 for Projet Montréal.

What are his expectations for the new series? “I hope the girls have matured too. We want to know how their love life is going, their love life over 50 years old. We ask ourselves questions in our fifties, about our relationship to seduction, sex, charm. I am still carnal and single! ”

Marie Plourde says that she identifies with Carrie, with the candor of Charlotte, and even claims her Miranda side. “His cynicism was healthy, his expectations of men were much more realistic, as was his investment in his career. She was the most rational of the four, ”thinks Marie Plourde, who has just been appointed deputy mayor of Montreal.

Martine St-Victor

For Martine St-Victor, Executive Director of the Edelman Montreal communications agency, the series Sex and the City has created a community and its popularity reached its peak even before the existence of social networks.

She cites as an example an episode where Samantha did not want to cry at the office. The four friends then wonder whether or not it is allowed to cry at his workplace. “The day after the broadcast, on American morning shows, it was THE subject everyone was talking about,” she recalls. It found its way into the editorial pages of newspaper business notebooks. That’s the power of this show and the beauty of popular culture. To take an event and analyze it through different prisms. Beyond fashion, luxury and milestones, this cultural value is a direct manifestation of the power of this show. ”

She also brings up more difficult moments in the series: “When Samantha announces that she has breast cancer, I’m sure there has been an increase in screening tests in the United States, because showing her vulnerability has a direct effect on the population. ”

She thinks she will find the friends in their fifties in a normal progression of life. “I don’t expect to see them dance in a nightclub in New York! The audience has aged too, it is no longer their reality and it is not mine either. We will see the evolution in their careers too, their ambitions will be different. ”

Martine St-Victor is part of a quartet of friends and she admits, like millions of people, having done the exercise of comparisons to find out which character she looks like the most. “It’s going to remain a mystery! She says.

Genevieve St-Germain

“It was a television shock”, launches the author Geneviève St-Germain about Sex and the City. “It was unusual to talk about women in this way and that kind of woman that you never saw on television at all. Different women, free, as much from a sexual point of view as of dress, and who evolve in a privileged environment, and especially to see them, now in their fifties, just for that, it is worth it! How do they live? What are their concerns? ”

Sex and the City corresponds to a period of her life when she identified with these four friends. “Everything revolved around their sentimental and sexual life, and the search for the ideal man. She believes that wanting to find the love of her life is a legitimate quest. “It has nothing to do with being a feminist. We can want to love and be loved. I found love, it’s been over 20 years that it lasts, children, I didn’t want it, it was clear, but I’m happy to have made a success of my love life ”, confides the author of My age is to be invented.

Geneviève St-Germain emphasizes the importance of the theme of friendship in the series. “It made me dream! I have friends, but I would have liked so much to have a group like that which is seen all the time, it was more of a fantasy than the adventures with Mister Big! As we get older, we lose sight of friends we have worked with or dated at some point in our lives, but the ones that remain are deep friendships. Friends who support each other and who do not judge each other, ”says the one who co-hosted the show. Girlfriends first.

She feels she hasn’t changed over the years. “Perhaps spiritually with experience! We accept more things, but my faculty of revolt did not fly away with the sixties! ”