MSN’s Wonderwall has a new interview with John Corbett, Aiden on Sex and The City 2: Hell in an overpriced handbasket. Corbett, 49, has been dating screen siren Bo Derek, 53, for about eight years. They live together on a 10 acre ranch in Santa Ynez, CA, about three hours outside of LA, where Derek breeds horses. In an interview with Hello! in November, 2008, Derek called Corbett “so much fun,” and said she was “very happy” with him. She wouldn’t say much about their relationship, but said that when she first met him she felt a “powerful” and “instantaneous” connection. They have no children, and Derek said that’s fine with her and that she doesn’t regret not having kids with Corbett or with her late husband, John Derek, who died of heart failure in 1998.

All this is lead up to the fact that Corbett has some pithy advice for men who can’t keep it in their pants. I kind of love this interview and can picture him saying it with that cute half smile of his:

On Big vs. Aidan:
“[Those fans] are yelling for Big when they should be in the Aidan camp! I’m going to shoot them with a water gun mixed with a little cayenne pepper!”

On which female character he most relates to:
“I guess I’m a little prudish in my real life so … Samantha. She’s a prude. I don’t know … I guess I’m more analytical, so I’d probably be more like Carrie. Yeah, I think so. I’d have fancy clothes, and I’d be as skinny as I can be.”

On admiring his own character:
“Aidan’s just a good guy. There’s not a whole lot of good guys left. I don’t think he’s a liar. He’s definitely a one woman guy.”

On how men in Hollywood should learn to stay faithful:
“They ought to stick with me. Let’s get together, drink a few whiskeys, and I’ll teach them how to mind the Johnson.”

On his secret about how to ‘mind the Johnson’:
“Don’t let the lizard out of the cage. If you just don’t let the lizard out of the cage, you’re going to be all right.”

[From MSN's Wonderwall via The Frisky]

I was always team Aiden when it came to the original TV series. I honestly don’t give a sh*t about this movie, though, and given the terrible reviews I won’t see it until it hits DVD or maybe ever. On the show, I didn’t think Carrie was good enough for Aiden or even particularly his type. She was just so fussy and wasn’t ready for the kind of commitment he wanted. That’s why she ended up with hot and cold Big, who was so commitment-phobic he abandoned her on her wedding day over a lame excuse. All that talk seems kind of moot, though, because from what I understand this second movie is going to all but ruin all our memories of a decent series and make us forget why we even cared about these characters in the first place.

These are photos from last night’s New York premiere of Did You Hear About the Morgans?, the film starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant. Much like the London premiere, Hugh and SJP were all over each other. They might be in love. Which wouldn’t be so bad, would it? SJP would leave Matthew Broderick, and she and Hugh would raise James and the cat twins together. It could be sweet. Or not.

Probably because Sarah Jessica Parker has questionable taste, yes? SJP was interviewed for her new film, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, and MTV got her to dish on the second Sex and the City film. SJP spoke about Miley Cyrus’s cameo in the film, which, judging from the photos (below), is a scene in which Miley and Kim “Samantha” Cattrall are wearing the same outfit. SJP compliments Miley as a “beautiful young lady and very self-possessed” and says that Miley is very tall, “like a Viking.” Which cracks me up more? That SJP thinks Miley is a beautiful, self-possessed young woman (who pole dances) and that height equals being a Viking. Yikes!

Sarah Jessica Parker and Miley Cyrus don’t appear onscreen together in “Sex and the City 2,” in theaters next year, but Parker did spend enough time on set with the 17-year-old singer/actress to learn one big thing about her: She’s a rather tall girl.

“I had very little [time] with Miley, but I was astounded by her height,” Parker told MTV News while promoting her flick, “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” “Did you know that she’s tall? She’s like a Viking. I had no idea!”

And while Cyrus filmed her brief cameo as herself for “SATC 2,” Parker noticed that the teen’s stature (which much be higher than her last reported 5-foot-4) was matched by her professional attitude.

“She’s a beautiful young lady and very self-possessed,” she said. “I literally was not in the scene with her. I was in the scene, but we were not [onscreen] together. But she was lovely and on time and prompt and professional, very sweet. She worked two hours and she was in and out.”

Someone who may or may not be in and out of the flick is John Corbett, who was spotted in Morocco around the same time “SATC 2″ was on location there. Parker said she “can’t confirm nor deny” that her former co-star, who played Aiden on the show, is in the movie. “It might have just been coincidental that he was traveling,” she said cryptically.

“I can confirm that there is no Jennifer Hudson,” she added of the singer who played Carrie’s assistant in the first movie.

Parker said the sequel is intended to be a lighthearted “caper,” unlike the first movie, which took a dark turn when Big got cold feet at his wedding to Carrie. “It had a lot of sadness in it,” she said. “It was bleak — intentionally so — and I thought rather bold.

“And this is really like the antidote, [like those] black-and-white road movies, or that’s what we hope,” she added. “We’re hoping that it’s fun and light. It feels like a soufflé. We’ve traveled a great distance to film it, and I think we have beautiful cinematic images and pictures, and I think everybody else is really good in it. I’m probably not, but I’ve enjoyed doing it.”

[From MTV]

NO! John Corbett got sucked into this mess too? For goodness sake. They wrote the Aiden character out perfectly – they gave him a girlfriend/wife and a baby, and it was clear he had completely moved on from Carrie’s incessant narcissism. Why did he have to come back?!? And why not have a Jennifer Hudson cameo? She wasn’t amazing in the first film or anything, but at least she was some kind of break from the depressing story line. They could have written one scene for her or something, like Carrie talking on the phone to her. Damn. This film is going to suck, y’all.

SJP and Hugh Grant at the ‘Morgans’ premiere on December 14, 2009 in New York. Credit: WENN.

I was totally a hardcore fan of Sex and the City when it was on HBO. I absolutely hated the movie, though, and I hated the post HBO-SATC message that somehow the show was totally empowering for women, or that these women were modern heroines, all of that stuff. I watched the show because I thought the characters were interesting, the stories and the dialogue were funny and often touching, and because of the fantasy-escapism of the clothes, the apartments, and the men. I have most of the seasons on DVD, and I watch them when I need a pick-me-up, but I don’t think it helps to glorify the characters or their actions. Because when it comes down to it, Carrie Bradshaw was a mess. She’s was a vapid, judgmental, self-defeating, immature, self-abusing narcissist whose only redeeming quality was her devotion and love for her friends. That was actually the brilliance of the show – everyone knows women like that, every woman has some of those qualities and everyone has a friend like that. In that way, the show was relatable.

I went off on that tangent all to say this: Carrie had a good thing with Aidan (John Corbett), and she totally screwed it up. When Carrie cheated on Aidan with Mr. Big, I hated her. When they got back together, and he proposed, I knew she would screw it up. He was too good for her. She was too high-maintenance and self-absorbed for him. Ever since John Corbett’s appearance on the show, I’ve thought of him with great affection, but I know he’s not really Aidan. This story just confirms it:

“Sex and the City” hunk John Corbett, swilling Mexican food and tequila shots with guy pals at Casa Vega in Sherman Oaks, CA came on like your average jerk barfly when a sexy Brazilian femme fan begged him to pose for a pic – then screamed and twisted away as he grabbed her South of the Border, squeezed hard and hooted: “Hey, Brazil, where you going? Come here and give me some!”

Escaping from Corbett’s creepy clutches, La Tourista dashed out the door. Said an unamused galpal: “We were shocked. Corbett really manhandled her!”

[From the National Enquirer, print edition, September 7 2009]

Totally ridiculous. I would have slapped the sh-t out of him. There’s absolutely no explanation for this kind of gross behavior – not even if he was totally loaded on tequila. Is it worse if I mention that I think he’s still with Bo Derek? I think they’re still together. Ugh… I hate when an actor who plays a beloved character acts so douchey. Maybe it’s not true. I hope so.

Jon Corbett is shown on 1/25/09. He’s also shown with Bo Derek on 10/25/08. Credit: WENN.com