And Just Like That is formally saying goodbye to Stanford Blatch, the beloved character portrayed by the late Willie Garson.
In the Thursday, August 17, episode of the Max sequence, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) shares a Stanford replace along with his estranged husband, Anthony Marentino (Mario Cantone).
“Stanford asked me to speak to you,” Carrie stated, holding up a handwritten notice that she acquired from her longtime pal. “He’s back in Japan, in Kyoto. He went to see the geishas and he’s staying.”
Stanford — who beforehand moved to Japan to be the expertise supervisor for a younger TikTok star following Garson’s dying — despatched Carrie a message and picture to clarify what he was up to. “He’s a Shinto monk. … No bit, he had a big, ugly fight with his TikTok client. She fired him and ran off to Berlin, he wandered around Kyoto for days crying,” Carrie defined. “[He] eventually found his way into a temple where, I guess, he stopped crying and he wrote, ‘Carrie, for the first time in my life, I felt peace, real peace.’”
Anthony, who married Stanford within the Sex and the City 2 characteristic movie, was bowled over by Carrie’s revelation. “Why didn’t he tell me this himself?” he requested, placing down the cosmopolitan drink that Carrie had provided him in Stanford’s honor.
Carrie defined, per the notice, that Stanford was afraid to inform Anthony out of worry that he would mock his newfound bliss.
“He also wrote that, ‘My lawyers have enclosed all the legal work needed. The apartment and all of my belongings are now his,’” Carrie stated to a now-surprised Anthony. “I want no attachments. I have let go of all things that no serve me and I let it all go with love.”
Anthony remarked that he was “stunned” that Stanford may let every part go as he’s been the exact opposite. “Good for him, good for him,” he tearfully stated earlier than Carrie proposed a toast to “Stanny.”
When requested who would get to “keep the photo” of Stanford, Carrie proclaimed that she was “very attached” to the picture of Garson’s character donning a standard Japanese gown.
Anthony and Stanford had separated throughout And Just Like That season 1 when Stanford moved to Asia. Anthony, for his half, has since tried to transfer on. Season 2 even launched a brand new love curiosity in Italian poet Giuseppe (Sebastiano Pigazzi), who proclaimed in Thursday’s episode that he was in love with the Hotfellas breadmaker.
Thursday’s episode comes practically two years after Garson died on the age of 57 in September 2021. Garson, who’s survived by son Nathen, had privately battled pancreatic most cancers prior to his passing.
“It was a real shock,” Cantone, 63, stated throughout a December 2021 look on SiriusXM’s Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Show. “None of us knew, and it was just, it was terrible. It was very sad. … Every time we did a benefit together, or like we did a couple of readings on Zoom, during COVID we were zooming. We were always, like, texting each other talking s–t. But I miss him, he made me laugh so hard and he was a great TV husband. Oh God, he was loved.”
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