Willie Garson's role as Stanford Blatch was the quintessential "gay best friend" to Parker's Carrie Bradshaw. (via Vogue). But as it turns out, their friendship extended beyond the screen. Sarah Jessica Parker and Willie Garson were actually dear friends in real life. According to Deadline, Parker and Garson were friends long before "Sex and the City." In fact, they met on a blind date. While things didn't necessarily work out romantically between the two, the date began a long friendship that would eventually make its way onto the screen.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Garson called it "very luxurious" that he and Parker got the chance to play opposite one another in "Sex and the City." "If [you use] people who've been friends for 20 years, it really reads on the screen," he explained. "Mostly it was just a lot of laughing. I, inwardly and outwardly, certainly am very different from the character. So it was a lot of us laughing. We could barely make it through scenes."
Fans can expect to see Garson reprise his role as Stanford Blatch (via Business Insider) in the upcoming "Sex and the City" reboot, "And Just Like That ...," which is slated to premiere sometime in 2021 (via Parade).
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