Friday, May 21, 2010

A Mosque Is Coming to the City But Sex-In-The-City is in Arabia

Ground Zero may be getting a mosque, but over in Arabia:-

...there are just seven days to go before the UK release of Sex And The City 2...The girls are back: Carrie Bradshaw and the gang hit Abu Dhabi in Sex and the City 2. Now their second cinematic outing sees them swap the streets of New York for the souks of Abu Dhabi.

...Courtesy of Samantha's wealthy potential client, the foursome are sent on an all expenses-paid jaunt to Abu Dhabi...


But bringing Les Girls over there presented a problem:-

Neither Dubai nor Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates would agree to SATC2 being filmed there ('Abu Dhabi was like: "You know, the UAE is not really ready to have four sexually liberated American girls filmed here,"' says King), so filming was done in Morocco as a stand-in.

Says Cattrall: 'To transport these emancipated new-millennium women to a world that has not changed, in a lot of ways, since Biblical times was a fascinating idea.

'You'd think a Muslim country would not embrace a show like this, but they loved Samantha, they loved the show, they understood what we were doing.'



The decadent West has more than one meaning, I guess.

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