Sarah Jessica Parker is speaking about the candid conversations she had with her on-screen, and off-screen best friend Willie Garson.
As fans of the franchise know, the beloved actor passed away in September after a private battle with cancer. Now, as the S*x and the City reboot is airing, SJP is revealing how she felt the need to keep Willie safe while filming the show amidst the pandemic.
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Warning: This article contains spoilers about And Just Like That .
Unfortunately, we lost Willie Garson earlier this year to cancer.
When he had passed, Sarah Jessica Parker released a powerful statement.
“It’s been unbearable. Sometimes silence is a statement. Of the gravity. The anguish. The magnitude of the loss of a 30 + year friendship.” she wrote on Instagram.
She continued:
“A real friendship that allowed for secrets, adventure, a shared professional family, truth, concerts, road trips, meals, late night phone calls, a mutual devotion to parenthood and all the heartaches and joy that accompany, triumphs, disappointments, fear, rage and years spent on sets (most especially Carrie’s apartment) and laughing late into the night as both Stanford and Carrie and Willie and SJ.”
“Willie. I will miss everything about you.”
“And replay our last moments together. I will re-read every text from your final days and put to pen our last calls. Your absence a crater that I will fill with blessing of these memories and all the ones that are still in recesses yet to surface.”
“My love and deepest sympathies and condolences to you dear Nathen.”
“You were and are the light of Willie’s life and his greatest achievement was being your Papa. These were his last words to me. “Great bangles all around.” Yes. Godspeed Willie Garson. RIP. X, SJ”
In a new interview with “Vulture” the 56-year-old actress got candid about the responsibility she felt for her sick friend, Willie Garson.
“I knew before we started shooting that Willie was sick,” Sarah Jessica Parker revealed to the publication. “He asked me to keep that confidential, and I honored that.”
Of course, SJP was concerned for Willie as he was battling cancer amidst a pandemic, making him extra vulnerable.
“We were a vaccine-mandated show, but nonetheless, a lot of our scenes were with a lot of background players, and I had great concerns about Willie staying as healthy as he could while shooting.”
“I couldn’t share that with anybody,” she continued.
“I’d only keep track of him, and I felt responsible in some ways for his health, his well-being on the set.”
She went on to say that Willie wanted to finish the season before he passed.
“[Willie] intended and wanted to complete the entire season,” she explained.
“He had a very significant storyline, more so than ever, so it was my fervent hope that he would be able to do it all.”
God, all of this is just making me cry even more.
Knowing that he was so desperate to achieve his goals with the show sounds exactly like him.
SJP then went on to reveal when she told her other castmates about Willie’s diagnosis.
The news was revealed to Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis during the days it took to film Mr. Big’s funeral.
“At that point, he shared with his fellow cast that he was sick. That day was excruciating, to be in a fictional world of the loss of a life.”
“But in the real world, of somebody that you knew was sick — that was his last day working with us,” she shared.
Heartbreaking. We miss you so much, Willie!
h/t: Vulture
Last Updated on December 21, 2021 by Anastasia Ross
