Cigar Aficionado Interviews Cover Model Chris Noth

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Chris Noth Appeared on the May/June 2010 Edition of Cigar Aficionado







Most actors don't have one hit TV series, let alone three or four, but actor Chris Noth was on his fourth playing the bad husband to "The Good Wife" when he appeared on Cigar Aficionado.

Before that, he solved crimes on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", then romanced Carrie Bradshaw as Mr. Big on "Sex and the City", a role he reprised in two SATC movies.







What did being on the cover of Cigar Aficionado mean to you?

I was pretty honored. The cover has a long history of prestigious cigar smokers. I consider myself a novice cigar smoker; there are guys who know a lot more about it than I do.

I remember being very happy with the pictures. I said, "Damn, I wish they could all look like that."





What's your go-to cigar these days?

Am I allowed to mention Cubans because there's one that I'm very fond of: the San Cristobal de la Habana.

Otherwise, I'm like everybody else. I love a Cuban Cohiba if I can get it, or a Romeo y Julieta, but this one was a perfect balance. It doesn't overwhelm you.

Some cigars are so damn strong that you can't stand up after smoking them. Occasionally that's how I like it, if I have a little bit of Irish Whiskey too.





What's your best cigar memory?

I was doing a job in Texas, "Rough Riders", a mini-series about Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, with Tom Berenger and Sam Elliott and a bunch of guys.

We were camping out in the heat after a long day of marching out in the hot sun. We all sat down one night around the campfire and smoked what seemed like homemade stogies. The movie was set in the 1890s and I wouldn't be surprised if those stogies were from the 1890s too.

They weren't very good cigars, but they sure relieved the pain of slogging in the heat.



* Taken from the Oct. 2012 Edition of Cigar Aficionado