As it turns out, Stanford Blatch is actually a pretty terrible wingman. In a 2020 interview with Page Six, Willie Garson, who portrays Carrie's longtime friend, revealed that he struggled to meet people while Sex and the City was in its heyday. "At the beginning, you would approach someone at a bar and realize, 'Oh, they want to be Stanford's best friend.' They don't necessarily want to sleep with you," he said. As fans know, that title is already taken by Mrs. Bradshaw.
As of this writing, Garson's love life looks a lot different than his character's. For one, the actor is straight even though he rarely mentions it because he finds it "offensive" when actors "playing gay characters" end up "screaming that they're not gay, like that would somehow be a bad thing if they were." Beyond that, Garson firmly believes that a life partner doesn't necessarily have to be a romantic partner. Instead, he's sharing his life with Nathan, the 19-year-old son he adopted from foster care at the age of seven.
"I very much always wanted to have a child," Garson told Page Six. "I had a long relationship, off and on, for like 20 years and she never wanted to have a child, which is fine. And it was like my mid-life crisis, I really wanted a child more than anything else and I got one. We're partners, my kid and I."
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