When she was preparing for her role as Louise, Carrie Bradshaw’s assistant in the Sex and the City movie, Jennifer Hudson traded places with her own PA, Walter, for a day. While Jennifer has always spoke lovingly about Walter, I didn’t realize how far back their relationship actually went. From this week’s Time Out Chicago interview with Jennifer:
Thanks in part to her friend Walter Williams III, Hudson learned about music outside the church, too. They met in the sixth grade at Yale Elementary. By the eighth grade, “He was like, ‘I’m gonna be your manager.’ I was like, ‘Boy, please.’” He booked her at South Side gay clubs, competing against drag queens. Now as her assistant, Williams “handles everything.”
Nice work, Walter! Also, time to add Jennifer to the list of celebrities who have or had their childhood friends as their personal assistants. That list includes Dolly Parton and Judy Ogle and Justin Timberlake and Trace Ayala.
As promised, here’s a reader submission regarding the portrayal of Louise (Jennifer Hudson), Carrie’s assistant in Sex and the City. The writer is Lisa-Marie from Glasgow, who writes a blog called Last Year’s Girl. NOTE: This post contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, read at your discretion.
I never saw any more than a couple of episodes of Sex and the City during its oh-so-fabulous, early noughties heyday; but perhaps the one defining image it seared into the pop cultural receptor at the front of my brain is of Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, perched in front of a MacBook as she files that week’s column late into the evening. And so I feel a little bit cheated after watching the big budget continuation of Ms Bradshaw’s tramps and travails through Manhattan – it turns out that, while she has the money to pay for a top of the range laptop and sparkly pink mobile phone, she doesn’t even know how to send a text message. What’s a girl to do but hire an assistant?
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So, you may have heard that there’s a movie coming out this weekend called Sex and the City. You may have also heard that there’s an assistant in it. STA is looking for an intrepid moviegoer who wants to watch the movie this weekend and do a review of the movie, focusing on Jennifer Hudson’s character (the assistant).
If you want to get an idea of what an STA guest post is like, take a look at this review of Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts in Iron Man.
If you’re already planning to see the movie this weekend, send us your review before noon EST on Monday, June 2. We’ll pick our favorite review and run it on the site. Thanks in advance, and happy Sexing.
In order to prepare for her role as Carrie Bradshaw’s assistant in the Sex and the City movie, what did Jennifer Hudson do? Why, trade places with her own assistant, Walter, of course. Here’s what Jennifer said in an interview with Newsblaze.com:
Oh, lord! I think it’s fun being somebody’s personal assistant. In a movie! But I’m not that organized. And I can’t work no computer! At all. Although I did switch roles with my assistant, so I could get the feel of it. Which I don’t think I did too good of a job! Like, I would answer my phone and say, ‘this is Walter’s assistant’.
Maybe more celebrities should try role reversing for a day and see how they like it. Ready when you are, Naomi.
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a Sex and the City movie coming out. And in case you didn’t know, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is going to have an assistant, played by Jennifer Hudson. And just for the record, yes, we don’t think she needs an assistant either. In the movie, the normally fiancially-idiotic Carrie actually realizes she doesn’t pay her assistant enough to afford those nice shoes and bags she’s toting around. Women’s Wear Daily has more:
Everyone knows of an assistant who tries too hard in the wardrobe department — think, too-high heels, flashy jewelry and slightly off-trend shoes by way of the mall. But what if the assistant was that of Miss Carrie Bradshaw? One could hardly blame such a minion for trying too hard. In the “Sex & the City: The Movie,” Jennifer Hudson’s character plays the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker. Hudson wears a potpourri of designer bags throughout the film until Bradshaw finally asks what gives. It turns out her assistant found a loophole in the fashion hierarchy: BagBorroworSteal.com. Hudson’s character rents designer bags from the site. In tandem with the launch, New Line Cinema has teamed up with the Web site to bow a Sex & the City collection.
Now we have a way to hook assistants up with cute bags without having to work a shrill, narcissistic prima donna like Carrie Bradshaw.
According to rumors on Gawker, a Columbia U. class of 2007 graduate has landed the role of a lifetime–as Sarah Jessica Parker’s personal assistant. For the honor of fetching Ms. Parker’s lattes and getting her shoes resoled, this lucky assistant is apparently making $200K a year. At first, our response was “dude, fuck that shit.” But after some time to reconsider, we thought…”Only 200,000? Seriously?”
Assistants to celebrities tend to have to sacrifice their lives for their bosses. It’s not a nine-to-five corporate gig by any means, it’s a form of indentured servitude. During one episode commentary for Sex and the City, SJP admits that she sent her assistant out to get her a pregnancy test the day she found out she was with child. All we’re saying is… if you have to go on a pregnancy test run for your boss, 200K is a pittance. We bet J.Hud is making way more than that.
Last week, we wrote about the news that Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson would be playing Carrie’s assistant in the upcoming Sex and the City movie. However, there may have been more drama behind the scenes. The website MediaTakeOut is reporting that the film’s producers originally cast Beyonce, but she was a drama queen, so they replaced her with J.Hud. Cele|bitchy doesn’t totally buy the story, which claims that Beyonce made outrageous demands, such as her character only wearing clothes from House of Dereon (her mom’s clothing line).
As for whether the rumor is true, you can decide for yourself. What isn’t up for debate, though, is the sheer ugliness level of these boots that poor J.Hud had to wear:
That is totally assistant abuse, y’all.
OK, so they’re not exactly made of paper, but we’re hooked on these cute celebrity dolls from Cartoon Doll Emporium. After all, who hasn’t wanted to get Mariah Carey to wear some damn clothes already?
You can start with future assistant J.Hud or our personal favorite, Oprah. (Her accessories include a magazine with a picture of herself on the cover, a ribbon to cut, and a small African child.)
Ever thought to yourself, “I have a master’s degree, and I still had to start as someone’s assistant?” Well, Variety reports that even though Jennifer Hudson has an Oscar, she still has to be someone’s assistant. In this case, she’s playing the assistant to Carrie Bradshaw (AKA Sarah Jessica Parker) in the upcoming Sex and the City movie.
This makes us wonder…what exactly would Scary Sadshaw (tm Gawker)’s assistant have to do? We’ve created this handy list:
- Organize shoes by color, year, and heel height
- Schedule lunch with ‘the girls’
- Apologize to friends Carrie advertently or inadvertently said something rude to
- Get nail polish off of computer’s “Enter” key
- Make audio tapes of ramblings she makes while drunk off of pink cocktails
- Transcribe audio into ‘columns’
- Call Aidan and hang up when he answers
- Tell details about your own sex life so Carrie can add thinly veiled references to you in her column
- Keep all Post-It notes safely out of viewing range
- Check mailbox and toss out bills, bank statements, or threatening letters from Natasha
- Make follow-up appointments for Carrie’s mole removal
- Tell Carrie she is awesome at least 15 times per day
- Refill Kleenex supply on nights when Big doesn’t call/come home
- Regularly update “People Carrie Has Slept With” database
