Lucy
Liu Dismisses Cashmere Mafia vs Lipstick Jungle Rivalry
1/4/08
Lucy Liu is fed up with reporters asking her if her new TV drama
Cashmere Mafia is in direct competition with upcoming show Lipstick Jungle
- just because both programs star women and share links to Sex & The
City.
Liu's Cashmere is the new series from Sex & The City creator Darren
Star, and follows four female executives struggling to balance careers
with family in New York City.
Lipstick Jungle, which stars Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay
Price and is also set in New York, is an adaptation of Sex & The City
writer Candace Bushnell's book of the same name.
But Liu insists there is plenty of room on U.S. television for shows
starring women - and that journalists would never ask male actors if their
shows share a rivalry with other programs starring men.
She says, "It's such a strange question. People ask, 'What do you
think of these shows coming up, and is it your competition?' No. Why does
it have to be your competition? Why can't there always be shows about
women?
"No one asks a man if it's difficult to have another show about
men."