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Interview With Dayna Devon
Aired June 20, 2003 - 10:40 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: They're always eating food. How do they look so great? We don't know, but the girls of the hit HBO show "Sex and the City" are back. They kick off their sixth and, yes, final season this Sunday night.
Let's talk about the buzz with Dayna Devon now. She's an anchor on an entertainment show "Extra." Thanks so much for being here, Dana. So give us the skinny. We hear there might be wedding bells ringing.
DAYNA DEVON, ANCHOR, "EXTRA": Darren Star, the creator of "Sex and the City," actually said there's going to be one wedding and maybe two, he even hinted about. So we're going to see about that. I'm betting on Charlotte actually and her divorced lawyer boyfriend Harry. He is Jewish, she's Episcopalian. And he said on the last episode that he wouldn't marry anyone unless she's Jewish. So that would open a whole lot of plot line for them to get married.
Also, though, the other possibility could be Miranda and her on and off boyfriend Steve. So we'll have to see. He's the father of her child. So that would be interesting as well.
COLLINS: That would be interesting. All right, now, what about the inside scoop on Carrie, of course Sarah Jessica Parker's character? What's going on there?
DEVON: Now, that's going to be really interesting. Ron Livingston, actually, he plays a character Jack Burger, a writer, also like Carrie, on the show, and they kind of set up on the last season, season five, the last episode, that they would go on a date. So they are going to go on their first date and I think they are going on a few dates. However, here's a little inside scoop, actually -- there's a European artist that Carrie Bradshaw's going to go out with later in the season. So it doesn't look like, at least for the time being, that her and Jack Burger's character are going to be -- that's going to be Mr. Right for her.
COLLINS: Sounds a little bit more like her character.
DEVON: Exactly.
COLLINS: I do watch this show, I must admit. Now, listen, let me ask you, while we're talking about Sarah Jessica Parker, just had a baby as well as Cynthia Nixon, and these guys look great. What's the deal? Personal trainers? DEVON: You know what? They are -- they look so good. Sarah Jessica looks like she has the body of an 18-year-old. But you know, she just did an interview recently and she said that the pressures on females in society are ridiculous, to look skinny and beautiful and thin. And she said the pressures on actresses are almost obscene. But if you look back at Sarah Jessica Parker over time, she's always had a great body. And everyone that works with her says that she eats like a horse. So I think she's just one of those gifted few that has a great metabolism. Whatever!
COLLINS: Everybody loves to hate the people like that. They do just look fabulous. I think these are some pictures from the premiere just the other night.
Now, give us your prediction, Dayna, about how this whole season is going to end, if you would.
DEVON: You know what? The reason, I think, this show has, you know, just really stood the test of time and really just hit a nerve with people is it doesn't give us those, you know, pat answers. It's messy like life. It's not clean and neat like TV. They are not going to give us a pat, saccharin-sweet ending where there's four weddings, you know, in Central Park. I think there are going to remain true to form.
COLLINS: Yes, Dayna, but I do have to say, there have definitely been some articles written about people saying, come on, women don't really talk this way, they don't really act this way. Do they? I mean, it's taken some hits for that.
DEVON: Well, I definitely don't think they're walking around New York in (UNINTELLIGIBLE) hiking uphill, but I do think that this is just a slice of life. I mean, they're showing these girls at just, you know, certain opportunities. I don't think they're talking about sex 24/7, but it was groundbreaking. I mean, for the first time really in the history of television, men were completely peripheral characters.
So I mean, it's slightly satire, but yet I don't think that they're walking around all the time talking about sex, but you know, that's what they're showing.
COLLINS: It is what they're showing, for sure. Dayna Devon, thanks so much, from "Extra" TV. We appreciate it and look forward to Sunday, indeed.
DEVON: Thank you.
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Aired June 20, 2003 - 10:40 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: They're always eating food. How do they look so great? We don't know, but the girls of the hit HBO show "Sex and the City" are back. They kick off their sixth and, yes, final season this Sunday night.
Let's talk about the buzz with Dayna Devon now. She's an anchor on an entertainment show "Extra." Thanks so much for being here, Dana. So give us the skinny. We hear there might be wedding bells ringing.
DAYNA DEVON, ANCHOR, "EXTRA": Darren Star, the creator of "Sex and the City," actually said there's going to be one wedding and maybe two, he even hinted about. So we're going to see about that. I'm betting on Charlotte actually and her divorced lawyer boyfriend Harry. He is Jewish, she's Episcopalian. And he said on the last episode that he wouldn't marry anyone unless she's Jewish. So that would open a whole lot of plot line for them to get married.
Also, though, the other possibility could be Miranda and her on and off boyfriend Steve. So we'll have to see. He's the father of her child. So that would be interesting as well.
COLLINS: That would be interesting. All right, now, what about the inside scoop on Carrie, of course Sarah Jessica Parker's character? What's going on there?
DEVON: Now, that's going to be really interesting. Ron Livingston, actually, he plays a character Jack Burger, a writer, also like Carrie, on the show, and they kind of set up on the last season, season five, the last episode, that they would go on a date. So they are going to go on their first date and I think they are going on a few dates. However, here's a little inside scoop, actually -- there's a European artist that Carrie Bradshaw's going to go out with later in the season. So it doesn't look like, at least for the time being, that her and Jack Burger's character are going to be -- that's going to be Mr. Right for her.
COLLINS: Sounds a little bit more like her character.
DEVON: Exactly.
COLLINS: I do watch this show, I must admit. Now, listen, let me ask you, while we're talking about Sarah Jessica Parker, just had a baby as well as Cynthia Nixon, and these guys look great. What's the deal? Personal trainers? DEVON: You know what? They are -- they look so good. Sarah Jessica looks like she has the body of an 18-year-old. But you know, she just did an interview recently and she said that the pressures on females in society are ridiculous, to look skinny and beautiful and thin. And she said the pressures on actresses are almost obscene. But if you look back at Sarah Jessica Parker over time, she's always had a great body. And everyone that works with her says that she eats like a horse. So I think she's just one of those gifted few that has a great metabolism. Whatever!
COLLINS: Everybody loves to hate the people like that. They do just look fabulous. I think these are some pictures from the premiere just the other night.
Now, give us your prediction, Dayna, about how this whole season is going to end, if you would.
DEVON: You know what? The reason, I think, this show has, you know, just really stood the test of time and really just hit a nerve with people is it doesn't give us those, you know, pat answers. It's messy like life. It's not clean and neat like TV. They are not going to give us a pat, saccharin-sweet ending where there's four weddings, you know, in Central Park. I think there are going to remain true to form.
COLLINS: Yes, Dayna, but I do have to say, there have definitely been some articles written about people saying, come on, women don't really talk this way, they don't really act this way. Do they? I mean, it's taken some hits for that.
DEVON: Well, I definitely don't think they're walking around New York in (UNINTELLIGIBLE) hiking uphill, but I do think that this is just a slice of life. I mean, they're showing these girls at just, you know, certain opportunities. I don't think they're talking about sex 24/7, but it was groundbreaking. I mean, for the first time really in the history of television, men were completely peripheral characters.
So I mean, it's slightly satire, but yet I don't think that they're walking around all the time talking about sex, but you know, that's what they're showing.
COLLINS: It is what they're showing, for sure. Dayna Devon, thanks so much, from "Extra" TV. We appreciate it and look forward to Sunday, indeed.
DEVON: Thank you.
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