Ca$h & Carrie
She wants movie millions, freebies and more of your money!
Last Updated: 12:58 PM, May 18, 2010
Posted: 12:41 AM, May 18, 2010
By any measure, Sarah Jessica Parker is a multimillionaire. But you wouldn’t know it judging by how much she likes scooping up swag and freebies.
On the set of her most recent movie, Parker kept 12 pairs of the same Swarovski Crystalline cocktail glasses used in a wedding scene, an on-set source told The Post. At $390 a set, that’s 24 cocktail glasses worth a total of $4,680.
Like a broke freelance model stuffing shoes into her purse backstage at a fashion show, Parker held onto some of the $10 million wardrobe she wore in the movie, too. The $9,000 jeweled Pucci gown she’s sporting in one of the two movie posters was gifted to her by the star-struck fashion label, on-set sources said. The actress also wanted a pair of knee-high metallic Rene Caovilla boots she dons in the film, so movie staff had to beseech the Italian company to give them to her, sources said. (Parker’s publicist Ina Treciokas told The Post the actress never asked for anything from the set, but was given the Pucci dress.)
Parker, who earned a cool $15 million for her appearance in the flick (not including the residuals she will make as executive producer), could have easily written a check instead of putting everyone through the pain of filling her closet for free. So why doesn’t she?
The answer starts with her upbringing. Growing up in Cincinnati as a small child, Parker lived on welfare and was one of eight kids. She got free lunch at school. When her family moved to New York to further the young actress’ career, she performed on Broadway, most notably in the title role of “Annie,” a show she churned out six days a week for a year. In real life, she was singing for her supper as the breadwinner for her brothers and sisters, an experience she never forgot.
“That is why I have such a weird relationship with money,” Parker said in a 2000 interview with the New York Times. “And it is why I can be profligate and super-frugal.”
This from the woman who made Manolo Blahnik a household name and plays the most famous shopaholic in history.
Still, in her personal life she has said she continued her fiscal conservatism even after she became a success in hit films from the ’80s and ’90s such as “Footloose,” “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” and “Honeymoon in Vegas,” and after she married fellow multimillionaire actor Matthew Broderick in 1997.
The couple kept their money separate, Parker said in the Times article, adding that there was “no reason for me to know how much money he has.” And perhaps Parker, having shared her money with her family for years, wanted to keep her earnings all to herself.
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