The Irish American writer behind summer blockbuster 'Sex and the City 2'

The Irish nanny comes with a jaunty Irish score.

“We worked so hard on the Irish music. It took us ages to get it right but I knew exactly what I wanted,” says King.

“I’m Irish American and it’s in my DNA. I would tell them it’s not light enough, it’s not complicated enough, it doesn’t have enough humor in it, where’s the penny whistle, where’s the horn, go back and do it again.

“We worked harder on that Irish music for the nanny to appear because I wanted it to be too big and yet authentic. The first time we see her it’s against a beautiful green lawn, so its like somebody’s coming in from Ireland.”

The nanny is a classic 'Sex and the City' ploy. People look at her and judge her as a threat, but in reality she’s got a heart of gold. Look again, the film reminds us, look again.

“I knew this film was going to be about evolution, who Carrie was in the past, who’s she’s maybe worried about becoming now, and I knew that once I opened the door to the past that the big significant person who would be standing in that door was Aidan Shaw,” says King, referring to Carrie’s great other love, former fiancé Aidan.

Because the girls are in a faraway magical place, King came up with the idea of reintroducing Aidan because Carrie at that point in the movie is really trying to reclaim who she was -- and there he is. It’s a dramatic twist that fan favorite John Corbett as Aidan plays flawlessly.

“I would have only brought him in knowing full well that Chris Noth as Mr. Big was already on very firm, strong ground in the movie,” says King.

“I made a choice to get the four girls away from the men and the babies. So suddenly even though they’re married, it’s the four girls from the series that we all loved so much. They’re out, they’re loose and they’re together.

“It was an effort to see them together, and people have said it’s like vintage and current, like back to what it was, and also great if you’ve never seen it before. I think we’ve captured the best of both worlds.”

'Sex and the City 2' opens nationwide on Thursday, May 27.

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