Chris Noth has recently talked about his 'Sex and the City' days where he played Mr. Big opposite Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw.
While the 59-year-old actor was in Australia, he revealed to News.com.au that, "In the beginning, Law & Order was the hit, but then when I did Sex and the City, that was a whole other thing. The reaction to that was just overwhelming and shocking, frankly, I don't think I've ever gotten over it; it completely changed my life. When I was younger I resented that - 'Oh, I've got to destroy that image' - but people want to see you as they want to see you."
Currently, Noth plays Illinois Governor Peter Florrick who is the amicably estranged husband of Julianna Margulies' Alicia Florrick on the CBS hit series The Good Wife. People may compare the character of Florrick who is dubbed as ambitious and adulterous but generally still a likable family man to that of Mr. Big's character. However, Noth does not look at it in the same way.
Noth continued, "Even with The Good Wife people accuse me of always playing powerful men. But they're flawed. Big was powerful because he had a lot of money and he seemed to have the upper hand in the relationship, but emotionally he was a wreck. Actually, no: he was what he was. One of the things I tell people is that he never tried to pretend he was anything other than what he was. It was [Carrie] who tried to pretend he was something he wasn't."
The actor added and teased the character of Carrie, "He was always honest about himself - he never cheated on her. The relationship just didn't work, and he went on to get married while she went on to - how many boyfriends did she have? She was such a whore! There's a misconception that Carrie was a victim of him, and that's not the case - she was a strong, smart woman."
