Candace Bushnell whose novel about 4 Manhattan ladies and their love lives impressed a TV phenomenon, has revealed she’ll be receiving no royalties from the deal secured by Netflix just lately to air the six seasons of Intercourse and the Metropolis on its platform.
Bushnell was initially paid $100,000 by HBO for the display rights to her novel, which spawned the TV sequence that ran from 1998 to 2004, and a franchise now price lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. And he or she was forthright in sharing her opinion on the brand new deal going ahead, telling The Instances of London newspaper:
“All of those males who’re answerable for issues, they simply maintain shifting these playing cards round to earn money as a result of each time they transfer the playing cards round any person’s skimming,” she says. “The way in which males do enterprise is a Ponzi scheme.”
She added: “The share of girls within the 1 per cent who made their very own cash is about 3.5 per cent, and that’s surprising.”
In addition to the Netflix deal, the franchise is ploughing forward with a 3rd season of its sequel … And Simply Like That, following the lives of Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon). Kim Cattrall, who performed intercourse bomb Samantha within the authentic sequence, famously opted out of the reunion, amid a long-simmering feud between her and Parker.
In the meantime, Bushnell is taking her experiences on the highway, in a stage present stuffed with anecdote and memoir, referred to as True Tales of Success and Intercourse and the Metropolis, most just lately in Palm Seaside – prompting her to verify that, again within the 2000s, she and the realm’s most well-known resident Donald Trump had been pleasant, though they now not communicate. She experiences him complimenting her again within the day on “the perfect hair in New York”, and he or she added: “He could be very charming if he desires to be. Clearly, that’s how he’s obtained the place he’s.”
