Even when she was being shot from the waist up, Kim Cattrall insisted on wearing heels. She said it made her feel more like Samantha.
Kim Cattrall turned down the role of Samantha Jones twice before being convinced by Darren Star's boyfriend to give it a try and shoot the pilot Sex and the City (1998).
The early episodes had characters looking directly at the camera lens and commenting on the events in the story. This element was dropped in the last episodes of Season 2.