If the creators of Sex and the City had it their way, Dana Delaney would have played the lead role of sex writer Carrie Bradshaw rather than Sarah Jessica Parker. "It's something I've never mentioned, but the show's creator Darren Star asked me to play Carrie," Delany told The Daily Mail back in October 2008, but she ultimately decided she wasn't comfortable with the show's sexual content and joined the cast of Desperate Housewives instead.
Riverdale's Mädchen Amick — who previously starred on Central Park West as Carrie Fairchild — also had the chance to play the Manolo Blahniks-loving icon. Her character was being spun off into her own series, which ultimately became Sex and the City, and Amick received the offer to continue playing her character. However, as she revealed on Live With Kelly and Ryan in January 2019, she turned it down to be with her young kids. Though SJP was already known from her roles in Square Pegs, Footloose, and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, among others, her Sex and the City role turned her into a bonafide star.