“I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t hate me” is a phrase Ron Livingston will always remember.
The actor, 57, famously performed Jack Berger on “Sex and the City” and can perpetually be ingrained in followers’ reminiscence as the person who cowardly ended his relationship with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) on a Put up-It be aware throughout Season 6.
His spouse of 15 years, actress Rosemarie DeWitt, 53, appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show” to advertise her latest function in “Out of My Mind” on Wednesday and defined how their life flipped the other way up from the backlash of Berger’s breakup be aware.
“Sex and the City” followers have been so unforgiving that DeWitt revealed they’d typically get confronted by indignant viewers whereas strolling by means of the town streets after the episode aired in 2003.
“Back in the day, when we first started dating, we’d be walking in the West Village and there’d be those Sex and the City tours and Ron would be like, ‘Go left! Go left!’” DeWitt recalled. “And we’d have to duck into Magnolia Bakery or something because women would come up and scream at him. They’d be like, ‘You broke up with her on a Post-it!’ You know what I mean? So he really got a lot of heat for a long time.”
Barrymore is a die-hard “SATC” fan who even made a visitor look on the “And Just Like That” reboot. Whereas speaking to Livingston and DeWitt, the actress-turned-talk present host revealed that she just lately rewatched the unique collection and believed followers have been too laborious on Berger.
“When Berger broke up with Carrie on the Post-it note, which is, by the way, so much more than us girls get now. That seems like a novel in this day and age of ghosting,” Barrymore said, earlier than quoting the Put up-It be aware. “‘I’m sorry.’ Okay. ‘I can’t.’ Now I know where you’re at. ‘Don’t hate me.’ Well, that’s… we’ll figure that out later. I may or may not, but it’s so informative and everyone poo-pooed it back in the day.”
She additionally revealed that her opinion of Carrie modified when she started rewatching the present.
“Carrie…. She’s hard,” Barrymore admitted. “I was like, ‘I want to be Carrie! I’m Carrie!’ Watching it this time, I was like, ‘Uh, Carrie’s a lot. Carrie can push you away. Carrie has got some issues.’”
She admitted that Berger wasn’t the one one guilty for his or her breakup.
“She [Carrie} really pushed him and… they were not doing well or thriving. He wasn’t the worst guy for having to say, ‘I think we’re in a bad pattern here,’” Barrymore said.
The “Charlie’s Angels” actress additionally declared that “we need to let Berger off the hook.”
When DeWitt interjected by noting that Barrymore appeared to have loads of empathy for Berger within the scenario, the beloved TV host replied, “I do! Now, I’m not like, ‘You jerk!’ I’m like, ‘Uh, maybe you needed to go. Maybe you needed to get out of that.’”
“SATC” aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004.
The woman gang Carrie, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) reunited for the reboot (And Simply Like That), which premiered on HBO Max in Dec. 2021, sans Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), who publicly declared she didn’t wish to reprise the function however made a small cameo on the finish of Season 2.
Filming for a 3rd season has already wrapped, with new episodes anticipated to air in 2025; nevertheless, an actual date has not been introduced.
