Aftonbladet Interview Transcript

3.28.02

*Nothworthy note: To best understand the interview, please view original article in Sweden's Aftonbladet website by clicking here.

Interview opens with Sex and the City Clip

Aftonbladet: Mr. Big is called one of the most famous stars in the show ever.

CN: Really? Who said that?

Aftonbladet: Swedish media.

CN: I love Sweden. (laughs) I had no idea that that's ever been said, but if it's so - hey, I'll take it.

Aftonbladet: Do you think it's because of you, or because of the character.

CN: Because of me (laughs). Hell, I don't know how these things work. I'm doing the character so it must be somewhere in between. I mean, probably because like I said, it is well written. Someone else could have done this and it would have worked out well for them, too.

Although I've done a lot of collaboration over the years with the writers because when I first started out in the role I thought it was too stiff a role, too one dimensional and too much of a cliche of an idea being the successful male in New York.

And it's not just about Mr. Big, the successful male, it was all about the armor of success with him and therefore he was, to my mind, much too distant to ever be fun to see. Over the years they gave him some stuff that was really a lot of fun. So I'm really happy with what the writers did.

Sex and the City clip

Aftonbladet: Are you anything like your character?

CN: No, no. No, I have a 1981 beat-up Mercedes. No, but I can imagine myself like him, I guess. No, I'm probably more goofy than he is, and not of that world.

Aftonbladet: Do you have a family of your own?

CN: Yes. No, I don't have any children, if that's what you mean.

Aftonbladet: A wife?

CN: No.

Aftonbladet: Girlfriend?

CN: Yeah...yeah...but, well, kind a one of those episodes of Sex and the City, it's amazing. Very funny, because something happened with a girl I was going out with, and she did something and I said, 'this is like an episode right out of the series. This has got to stop.' It was funny.

Sex and The City clip

Aftonbladet: Is it ever going to be you and Carrie?

CN: They won't tell me. But right now, something happens at the end of this fourth that will show you where it's going.

It may be that it will never happen.

Clip of Sex and the City

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