British actress Alice Eve is creating a stir as Charlotte’s bra-eschewing nanny in Sex And The City 2. In the pantheon of pop culture, a few (in)famous nannies spring to mind: Julie Andrews’s starchy-but-sweet Mary Poppins; Fran Drescher’s nasal-voiced Noo Yawk Nanny; Daisy Wright, the comely British nanny who came between Jude Law and Sienna Miller. And after this summer, no doubt Alice Eve’s Irish Nanny Erin, Charlotte’s child minder in Sex and the City 2, will join the celebrated caregiver club — in no small part thanks to the fact Nanny Erin isn’t a big fan of above-the-belt undergarments. (Samantha jokingly brands her “Erin Go Braless.”)

Eve, 28, gamely cast off the underwire for the role. “Might as well do it now rather than later,” after having children, says Eve, 28. So even if Nanny Erin’s simple J.Crew and Tod’s wardrobe doesn’t have quite the fashion impact of her boss’s clothes, her style does leave a certain, um, impression.

SATC2 is the British Eve’s second American movie, after She’s Out of My League (released in March). Eve says she’s “tripping” she’s involved in the Sex sequel. Two years ago, she and her best friend queued up around the block of a London theater for an hour to watch the original, Cosmo in hand, “the whole ceremony.” (Before Eve worked on Broadway in 2007, Sex and the City the TV series was what she knew of New York.) Now, she’s on the other side of the velvet rope, walking red carpets in L’Wren Scott with the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker.

Eve shot scenes with all four stars over three weeks in New York. That first day of filming, “it was like we were starting a new day of school and I was wondering how the girls were going to be,” Eve recalls. “I was so lucky how nice they were. They kind of went out of their way to be nice.”

Eve, an Oxford graduate with a résumé that includes Oscar Wilde and Tom Stoppard, landed the role of the nanny who, as she puts it, “spices things up a bit” the old-fashioned way, through a 5- to 10-minute audition tape shot in an L.A. loft on her agent’s camera. Director Michael Patrick King “watched it and he liked it.”

“I have a very strong maternal instinct which I don’t think was missed” by King, Eve adds. “I have a brother who was born 12 years after me. I feel like I’m the only person in his life who tells him to study.” She’s in a two-year relationship with Adam O’Riordan, a poet and Oxford classmate — not that she’s thinking of children quite yet.

Working with the four little girls (two sets of twins) cast as her charges was an “intense experience,” Eve says. “It was very difficult to explain to them that their mom is just behind the camera. So it’s tough.”

But not as tough as negotiating with a dog, which was part of the cast of She’s Out of My League, about a siren (Eve) who falls for a schlub. The pooch was “a diva,” Eve recalls. She would sit slumped in the corner with her head on her paws, “that cute Beethovenposition,” and essentially scowl “I’m done with this.” The trainer would have to coax her back on set. “We’d all try but were like idiots crowding around the dog,” Eve says.

With two frothy rom-coms this year alone to her credit, Eve says she “feels like I’m showing my range.” She’s still at the stage in her career when “if people are watching my work, whatever it is, I’m thrilled,” but she’s hopeful that SATC2 will spark more primo parts.

“A lot of times I’ll go out for a great movie, and they’ll say they loved the audition but want someone who’s got more of a profile. So if (SATC2) helps me get those jobs, then I’m happy.”

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