Doctor Who Companion Meets Carrie Bradshaw in “The Carrie Diaries”
Sunday, January 20th, 2013 at 8:25 am Category: News
Did The Doctor’s former companion Martha Jones borrow his TARDIS to travel back in time to the 1980’s to help Carrie Bradshaw become the shoe-obsessed sex columnist we know (and love/hate) from Sex and the City?
Of course not. But actress Freema Agyeman is making her debut on U.S. television in The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to Sex and the City based on Candace Bushnell’s book. Agyeman plays Larissa Loughlin, a style editor for “Interview” magazine. She meets a young and innocent Carrie (played by AnnaSophia Robb) in a department store, where the young girl’s colorful personalized purse draws her eye.
A friendship quickly forms, and the magazine editor invites the young girl to join them at restaurant Indochine, where Carrie discovers a world of artists, writers, and fashionistas. Champagne and creativity flow freely as a young Carrie begins to discover the New York nightlife so ubiquitous in the raunchy but cleverly written HBO show.
Agyeman is listed as being in all 13 episodes of the new series, and her character has been set up to serve as Obi-Wan Kenobi to Carrie’s Luke Skywalker. Editor Larissa Loughlin is a party gal with a flair for fashion, and she works in publishing, and anyone who watched the original series knows that Carrie grows up to be these things as well. But will Agyeman’s character turn Carrie to the Dark Side instead? She’s already responsible for keeping the teenager out past her curfew and allowing her to drink champagne.
Since her days as the Doctor’s companion in Season 4 of Doctor Who, Agyeman has appeared in Law and Order: U.K. She recently said that she won’t be returning for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who: “I’m doing two things for the 50th but nothing to do with being in the drama,” she said, further explaining, “It’s in terms of conventions and interviews and things like that, which we’re all doing stuff to promote the 50th. We have to. It’s the Doctor Who family and we want to.”
The Carrie Diaries airs every Monday 8/7pm on The CW channel. The Doctor Who 50th anniversary is scheduled to be celebrated later this year.
Response to “Doctor Who Companion Meets Carrie Bradshaw in “The Carrie Diaries””
Thanks for this article about Freema. She is one of my actors to move from the world of Doctor Who. Fans of Sex and the City and the Emo ambiance of the Third Season of Doctor Who should be warned that The Carrie Dairies is about as raunchy as “I Carly” on Disney. Although the first episode takes a fairly honest look at American upper middle class teens, so far this is a positive, agnst free series. Carrie,is fighter not a sulker. The show–so far– is fun and as innocent and positive as Carrie’s narration. And I don’t believe the series takes itself as seriously as as we fans tend to do. Although Larissa represents the free spirited artistic, fashion conscious eighties crowd– and they did overlook the fact that newcomers in their group were underage,– will probably protect Carrie from, rather than seduce Carrie into a dark Studio 54 type world of sex and drugs,– although I don’t think she will hide the dark side from Carrie either. Looking at the pilot, it appears as if the show will take a compassionalte look at the sensuality and drug use of the 80′s, (from the opener, I would imagine Carrie’s is a reality where troubled friends go to rehab,). As characters we have met on the show are openly and secretly gay the series will probably address AIDS. However, nothing yet–even taking Carrie to a night club–suggests that Larissa herself has been seduced into that darker side of the Eighties high life. Maybe she’s a Studio 54 survivor and knows all the pitfalls. She is a thrill seeker. However The Indochine segment–down to Larissa providing Carrie with a party dress and Carrie running off at midnight –suggests Cinderella’s night at the ball with Larissa as Csrrie’s glamourous, worldly, somewhat naughty Fairy Godmother.