Sarah Jessica Parker: door still open for third Sex and the City film

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Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker has praised cable channel HBO for its role in making the TV series a cultural game changer for the portrayal of women – and admitted the door is still open on a third film.

In a wide ranging conversation at the Cannes Lions advertising festival on Monday, Parker also admitted that she has a “complicated” attitude toward Twitter, despite the power the social media platform has had in transforming the relationship celebrities can have with their fans.

Speaking to Joanna Coles, the US editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, the actor said that the freedom from the conventions of US network TV on cable-subscription channel HBO was a major factor in making SATC a global hit.

“A lot of [its success] has to do with the time and place of Sex and the City,” she said. “The home where we found ourselves was HBO. There were no ads, there was a real 30-32 minutes of viewing [to tell a story]. We could use salty language, [some] could say vulgar, and deal with [topics] you couldn’t do on [free-to-air] broadcast TV.”

The freedom of being able to broach subjects of sex and relationships from a blunt female perspective, not particularly common when the show began its run in 1998, opened the door to no-holds-barred productions driven by a new generation including Lena Dunham, the writer and star of Girls.

Parker also admitted that she was a relative latecomer to Twitter – she now has more than 600,000 followers – and struggles with how she should publicly portray herself on the platform.

“It has been complicated for me,” she said. “I am often conflicted about it. I still remain conflicted about how I have conversations.”

Coles, who has 79,000 followers, said that she adopts a particular persona online – and offered a tongue-in-cheek rule of thumb.

“I have a persona on Twitter,” said Coles. “It is not necessarily me and I never do it when I’m drunk.”

Parker, who has a range of creative irons in the fire including an HBO series called Into the Fire, said she found it much easier using Instagram, the Facebook-owned picture-based platform.

The actor also admitted that she hasn’t ruled out a third big screen outing for the SATC stars.

She said that she hasn’t had a proper conversation with Michael Patrick King – who wrote most of the premieres and finales of the TV series and both its big screen outings – but did not explicity rule out a third film

“Michael Patrick and I have never had a real conversation about it,” she said. “I know there is a story ... whether we tell it remains to be seen. The answer remains unclear at this time.”