Candace Bushnell, whose novel about four Manhattan women and their love lives inspired a television phenomenon, has revealed that she will not receive any royalties from Netflix’s recent deal to stream all six seasons of the series. Sex and the City On its platform.
Bushnell originally received $100,000 from HBO for the rights to her novel, which spawned the television series that ran from 1998 to 2004 and is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars. She was frank in sharing her opinion on moving forward with the new deal Times of London Newspaper:
“All these guys in charge, they keep moving these cards to make money, because every time they move the cards, someone is skimming,” she says. “The way men do business is a Ponzi scheme.”
“The percentage of women in the 1 percent category who earn their own money is about 3.5 percent, which is shocking,” she added.
Along with the Netflix deal, the series is moving forward with a third season of its sequel… And like that, follows the lives of Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon). Kim Cattrall, who played sex bomb Samantha in the original series, has reportedly pulled out of the reunion, amid a long-running feud between her and Parker.
Meanwhile, Bushnell takes her experiences on the road, in a stage show filled with anecdotes and memoirs, called True tales of success, sex and the city, most recently in Palm Beach — leading her to assert that in the 2000s, she and the area’s most famous resident, Donald Trump, were friendly, though they no longer spoke. She informed him that he had complimented her that day on “the best hair in New York,” and added, “He could be very charming if he wanted to. That’s clearly how he got to where he is now.”