Reenacting her response to the trite question, she continues: “I’m like, yeah, it was fun…but it’s also really hard! Like, that was an acting job.

“She was a deeply emotional person. She made tons of mistakes. She was raw and exposed. She was flawed. She was ridiculous. She was silly. She was funny, she was smart. She sobbed and you know, pulled herself across a threshold countless times to try to find home. But people thought, you know, they didn’t think it was work for me. I’m like, no, actually, look at all of it. Take your time and look at all of it! And then ask me if it was fun—or do you want to have a serious conversation about the fact that I’m an actor?”

Because yes, Bradshaw liked shoes. She liked drinking Cosmopolitans and she liked reading fashion magazines. But no, that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing more to her.

Thanks to the ingrained sexism of our society, so many of the activities or interests that are seen as stereotypically female are also therefore considered less important or less meaningful. But as Parker points out, while Bradshaw might have been famous for her fashion (which is a skill and art form in itself, thank you very much), she was also a successful author and acclaimed columnist, went through her fair share of emotionally damaging relationships which she dealt with in the healthiest way she could, and maintained some incredible friendships.

And guess what, playing all that ain’t easy.

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Sarah Jessica Parker didn’t have as much “fun” playing Carrie as you’d think