Kim Cattrall Talks ‘And Just Like That’ Return: Interview – Hollywood Life

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After years of denying that she’s going to ever return to the Sex and the City franchise, Kim Cattrall shocked followers when it was reported that she introduced her sex-hungry publicist character of Samantha Jones again to life throughout a cameo for Season 2 of And Just Like That that was secretly shot in March. Now, she has opened up about what it took to get her concerned within the franchise as soon as once more. “It’s very interesting to get a call from the head of HBO saying, what can we do? and I went, Hmm. Let me get creative,” Kim, 66, recalled on a June 28 look on The View.

.@KimCattrall speaks on her scene within the new season of ‘And Just Like That…’ the place she reprises her iconic position as Samantha and tells @TheView: “It’s very interesting to get a call from the head of HBO saying, ‘What can we do?'” https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/Sam3mX9b81

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“And one of those things was to get Pat Field back, because I just thought that if I’m going to come back I gotta come back with that Samantha style, I gotta push it,” she revealed. “And we did.” Patricia Field was the unique costume designer on Sex and the City, however was dedicated to Netflix’s Emily in Paris when And Just Like That received the inexperienced mild. She can also be engaged on the costumes for Kim’s new Netflix present, Glamorous.

Sex and the City director and author and And Just Like That govt producer Michael Patrick King beforehand hypothesized that one thing “magical” will need to have occurred to get Kim on board for the cameo position. “I did not start this season thinking Samantha would ever appear in the show,” he admitted to The Hollywood Reporter in a June 22 interview. However, he added that in his thoughts, Samantha “has always been in” the reboot. “And in actuality, the audience saw Carrie texting with her and she sent flowers [in season one]. And in my writer’s sense, when I’m away from the screen, they’re calling and seeing each other,” he defined.

“I know Kim said that she’d hung up the Samantha wardrobe, and then some magic happened behind the scenes because all of a sudden, there was a possibility of it happening,” he famous. “And I think, I don’t know, something about the 25th anniversary, the fans have always asked for Samantha and something happened where all of a sudden I was like, ‘Well, maybe if it’s a possibility, I can come up with a small beautiful little treat.’” Michael stated Kim signed on after HBO chairman and CEO Casey Bloys referred to as each him and Kim in regards to the chance.

Kim notably didn’t work together with any of her former co-stars — Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon — for her cameo. Sarah, 58, revealed how she felt about Kim’s tremendous hush-hush cameo whereas chatting with Entertainment Tonight on June 21. “I thought it was a really good idea and I was thrilled that, you know, we could make it happen and that it worked for her and it’s just really nice to see,” she stated. “It’s really nice. I was really pleased.” Sarah and Kim aren’t mates, which Kim has made clear through the years, regardless of Sarah’s makes an attempt to make good.