It’s nearly impossible to imagine anyone but Sarah Jessica Parker playing Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City. But when Darren Star, the show’s creator, first approached Parker about the now-iconic role, she wasn’t sure she wanted to do it. In an excerpt from the forthcoming book Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love obtained by Entertainment Weekly, author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong explains that two major changes had to be made to Carrie’s character before Parker would commit. “She didn’t want Carrie to throw around the word ‘f—’ just because the show was on cable,” the book reads.