Willie Garson's Sex and the City colleagues were attached to him as much as viewers

GQ

“I loved the guy,” says Sean Palmer, who played Stanford’s boyfriend Marcus for two seasons, in an interview with GQ about the late actor, who died last week at age 57. “My very first day on set I had to simulate a blowjob on him and that was extremely awkward, but he really tried to make it as comfortable for me as possible. He even came to my costume fittings to make sure I got good stuff. I always got a sense from him that he was happy I was chosen for him because he was happy for Stanford and the possibilities that the story line offered the character. Some people are just a joy to be around. Willie brought that to the table in spades.” Margaret Cho, who appeared with Garson in a 2002 episode, adds that Garson "wasn’t the limp-wristed comic relief we’d been forced to know as ourselves in the media. He was all the things." Meanwhile, legendary Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field says Garson’s joviality inspired her to create Stanford’s signature wardrobe. “His personality gave me inspiration and I went with it and he responded," she says. "He’s happy and colorful, I was just inspired to dress him in the same way that he presented himself. All I can say is that everytime I showed him something that I loved, he loved it too. I believe that his character was, how could I put it, infectious.”