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Sarah Jessica Parker was so “panicked” after “Sex and the City” got picked up by HBO in the late ’90s that she asked her agents at the time to “get [her] out” of the show.

Parker, 60, recently explained to her co-star Kristin Davis on the latter’s “Are You a Charlotte?” podcast that she had a “lovely” experience shooting the pilot in 1997 — but then mentally tabled the idea of what could happen next.

“And when the show was picked up, I panicked,” she admitted. “I was like, ‘I can’t be on a TV show. I don’t think I’m suited for that life.’”

The actress called her agents and said, “Hey, can you get me out of this?” She even offered other “services” to HBO, negotiating that she would work on multiple movies for the network to “fulfill” her contract.

But her agents resisted the request. “Do it for a year,” they urged, “and if you don’t want to do it anymore, we won’t do it.”

Though she had already been on multiple shows at that point, including “Square Pegs,” “A Year in the Life” and “Equal Justice,” Parker noted that they were more temporary gigs.

“It’s very hard to explain. It also kind of depressed me. I think that it was the idea of doing the same thing over and over and over again,” she told Davis, also 60, elaborating that her past experiences had always come and gone.

“They had shorter lives — maybe one or two seasons — and then I moved on.”

Parker — who got her start on Broadway — shared that her “goal” as a young starlet was to be a “journeyman” actor who was able to balance theatre with small roles in TV and film.

“You want to be moving,” she recalled, adding, “That, to me, was having it all.”

At the time, Parker thought that “committing” to a series meant she “couldn’t do all those things,” likening the “weird” feeling to somebody “putting their hand over [her] mouth.”

Now, however, the actress believes she was “absolutely wrong” to think that, but Davis cautioned that she’s “not that wrong.”

It was during pre-production of “SATC” that Parker met legendary costume designer Patricia Field, at which point the experience “went from being this oppressive idea to endless possibilities.”

On day one of filming, she walked from her New York City apartment to the first location: a Banana Republic store on Sixth Avenue.

“And I never looked back,” she marveled. “And I was never not happy to be there. There was no place I would rather have been than on our set every single solitary day.”

“SATC,” for which Parker won the Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series, ended in 2004, but two movies — one in 2008 and one in 2010 — followed. She starred in both.

She also stars in the sequel series, “And Just Like That…,” which debuted in 2021. “AJLT” Season 3 premieres later this month.