Plot twist! Kim Cattrall is reprising her position of Samantha Jones in the Sex and the City spinoff, And Just Like That…, it was reported Wednesday by Variety.
While particulars stay scarce about the casting bombshell, we do know that it will not be a hug-it-out reunion between the famed foursome. According to the outlet, Cattrall, who shot her dialogue March 22 in New York City, did so “without seeing or speaking with” the collection stars, together with Sarah Jessica Parker, or even showrunner Michael Patrick King. That’s not stunning in mild of her long-running feud with Parker and others concerned with the franchise.
Cattrall confirmed the information on Thursday on social media.
The cameo will probably be a part of the HBO present’s Season 2 finale. Samantha, who moved to London, will probably be seen having a telephone dialog with SJP’s Carrie. In Season 1, it was defined that the friends had a falling out when Carrie fired Samantha as her publicist, a plot created in the wake of Cattrall declaring herself “done” with the franchise and saying she had a “toxic relationship” with Parker. As the season progressed, Carrie texted with an off-screen Samantha, teeing up a doable reconciliation — although that feels like a really far off end result due to the stars’ real-life historical past.
The cameo additionally brings again one other key member of the unique franchise. Sex and the City costume designer Patricia Field, who has not been engaged on And Just Like That…, styled Samantha for the scene. She’s been #StaffKim amid the long-running beef, and consulted on Cattrall’s new present, Glamorous.
#StaffKim, #TeamSJP — it has been a messy decade for the famed fictional good friend group from NYC, who wooed viewers with their candid conversations about love, intercourse and friendship, over cosmos and in Manolos, starting 25 years in the past. We have a look again at how issues went from pleasant to feuding — up via this shock growth…
June 6, 1998: Sex and the City debuts. The ground-breaking collection, an adaptation of Candace Bushnell’s newspaper column and e-book, about the friendship between the sturdy ladies — Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda — turns into an enormous hit for HBO, and a part of the cultural lexicon. Parker has the starring position and govt produces the collection, however the three different actresses achieve main star energy.
There are Emmys — and SATC excursions and gawkers exterior Carrie’s brownstone to today. However, with a present centered round 4 ladies, together with it comes a tabloid narrative of feuding between the stars.
February 22, 2004: The present ends its six-season run with many bedmates and bonding moments for the girls alongside the method.
Early chatter a few characteristic movie will get killed by Cattrall’s publicist, who says, “She would have loved to have done the movie and she made a deal to do the movie. But she waited as long as possible with no script or start date and felt she had to take other offers that were presented to her after the hold period had passed.”
Cattrall sits aside from the others at the Emmy Awards.
Cattrall addresses rumors that pay parity was behind the collection ending and the film being killed. “I felt after six years, it was time for all of us to participate in the financial windfall of Sex and the City,” she says on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross. “When they didn’t seem keen on that, I thought it was time to move on.” However, she left the door open: “If the deal was right and the script was fabulous, absolutely I would.”
2007: After years of on and off talks a few characteristic movie, it’s greenlit and begins taking pictures.
Parker says, “We’ve had ridiculous obstacles. It’s been very upsetting at times — we’ve gotten so close and then fallen apart. But there’s something about the experience that makes it much sweeter to … arrive on the set and just be doing it. We wanted it so much.”
Cattrall is blamed for holding up the manufacturing over monetary negotiations. She later tells the Advocate she wasn’t jealous of Parker’s larger wage: “I never expected to be paid what Sarah was being paid. Sarah’s a producer. But I felt that the offer was not worthy of what the three of us had contributed, and I spoke up about it.”
2008: Sex and the City the movie comes out and is a big hit.
While promoting the film, the women talk about the feud rumors. Cattrall, with her trademark candor, says, “It’s no use saying the four of us are best friends — because we’re not… But it felt like no time had passed when we met up again.” She adds that a “hard negotiation” played out but it was lucrative, saying, “it had to be enough to get us all together again.” Parker tells the same outlet, “Why would you think that things were tense between Kim and me? People keep asking why we didn’t make this movie four years ago and the answer is quite simple — it just didn’t feel right for Kim to do it then. It was disappointing but we all had to respect the choice she made. We certainly didn’t want to make it with another actress, because we’re like family now… I wanted Kim to be there, and to be happy to be there… Would I, as a producer of the movie, have made it without her? No.'”
A second film is confirmed. Parker later says she and King envision three films total: “Michael Patrick and I long ago talked about the movie and how we’d break it up into three acts. So the first movie being the first act, the second being the second act, and that … there is a third story.”
2009: Sex and the City 2 is in production. Things look cordial on the set with Parker and Cattrall photographed sharing a hug.
Months later, Cattrall supports Parker at her premiere for Did You Hear About The Morgans?
Parker tells Elle, “I don’t think anybody wants to believe that I love Kim. I adore her. I wouldn’t have done the movie without her.”
2010: Cattrall agrees with Parker’s take, saying, “I think Sarah was right: People don’t want to believe that we get on. They have too much invested in the idea of two strong, successful women fighting with each other. It makes for juicy gossip and copy. The truth of us being friends and getting along and happily doing our jobs together is nowhere near as newsworthy. I think Sarah is fantastic. She is a born leader and she guides the crew and the cast in such a strong but gentle way. She and I are sick of this. It’s exhausting talking about it, and a real bore. Next?”
Parker tells Marie Claire, “When you’re on set, you’re working 90-hour weeks, you’re never home, you’re exhausted. There are times when all of us have been sensitive, and sometimes feelings get hurt. But I don’t have any regrets about how I’ve treated people.” Cattrall adds, “The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.”
Sex and the City 2 is released and it doesn’t get as good of a reception.
Chris Noth, who played Big (pre-misconduct allegations), says, “The franchise is dead. The press killed it,” due to the bad reviews. He later adds, “I thought a lot of the reviews were actually personal, derogatory and in bad taste. It was only a movie for godsakes! … They made like we had killed somebody’s mother making that movie. I don’t think there will be another one.” Parker remains optimistic, “You never know… It’s less about the reviewers than it is about the audience, and they’ve been pretty true.”
2011: Nonetheless, a Sex and the City 3 doesn’t materialize.
Cattrall say it’s “doubtful” there will be a third film. She also expresses disappointment over pay, saying, “Originally I was asked to do the [first] movie with no script, no start date, and a very paltry sum. I thought the three of us should fight for a piece of what we created and that was my reluctance. The four of us were not set for life. We were on cable TV and we were not making nearly what our counterparts in television were making. I thought we were working damn hard and it was the time to negotiate that.”
Parker says, “I don’t know of a movie in the imminent, or near, or even distant future. Honestly, I’m not being cagey. There is no discussion currently of a Sex and the City 3. Do I hold it out in my future in some way as a possibility? Of course.”
2016: For a number of extra years, it is simply dizzying headlines about the potential for a 3rd movie, with all members of the forged weighing in. Cattrall typically speaks to why it could and could not occur.
Parker posts an internet birthday tribute to Cattrall and defends their relationship to Time, saying, “It was always so heartbreaking to me that there was this narrative about Kim and myself because it just didn’t reflect anything that happened on that set. They just didn’t do it to the Sopranos guys. It was so strange to me and upsetting. I posted something on Kim’s birthday and people were like, ‘Oh my god, I didn’t know you liked her!’ What? We were all at liberty to walk away at any time! But nobody asked those questions of shows with men. Isn’t that interesting?”
She talks about the narrative of “this ongoing catfight” in an interview with Howard Stern, saying, “It really used to upset me. It was usually about bad behavior on the set and I take very seriously my reputation… To suggest that I’m behaving poorly or not treating somebody well… It would drive me bananas.”
2017: Parker drops the bomb that the third film officially isn’t happening, telling Extra, “It’s over. We’re not doing it. I’m disappointed. We had this beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, joyful, very relatable script and story. It’s not just disappointing that we don’t get to tell the story and have that experience, but more so for that audience that has been so vocal in wanting another movie.”
Right after, a Daily Mail story claims Cattrall’s “diva calls for” derailed the project. Cattrall tweeted that “the “only ‘demand’ I ever made was that I didn’t want to do a 3rd film….&that was back in 2016.” Many different castmates categorical their disappointment in the movie falling aside, seemingly siding with Parker.
Another article, by way of the New York Post, is about the “Mean Girls” tradition cultivated by Parker on the set.
Cattrall tells Piers Morgan, “It’s quite extraordinary to get any kind of negative press about something that I’ve been saying for almost a year of ‘no’ — that I’m demanding or a diva. And this is really where I take to task the people from Sex and the City — and specifically Sarah Jessica Parker — in that I think she could have been nicer… I don’t know what her issue is; I never have.” She goes on to say they’d a “toxic relationship,” including, “We’ve never been friends. We’ve been colleagues and in some ways it’s a very healthy place to be because then you have a clear line between your professional life and relationship and your personal.” She calls her choice not to seem in the third movie a “clear” and “empowered” one. I performed it previous the end line and then some, and I beloved it.”
2018: Parker says she was “heartbroken” by Cattrall’s comments. “I… discovered it very upsetting, as a result of that is not the method I recall our expertise.”
Cattrall’s brother dies and Parker is among the SATC stars expressing condolences on social media.
Cattrall slams Parker for the public reach out, writing, “Your steady reaching out is a painful reminder of how merciless you actually had been then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are usually not my household. You are usually not my good friend. So I’m writing to inform you one final time to cease exploiting our tragedy so as to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.” She added a link to the “Mean Girls” story.
2021: The SATC reboot And Just Like That... is announced and it is noted that Cattrall will not be joining the three other women.
The show premieres in December. It’s explained that Samantha and Carrie had a falling out and the PR exec moved to London.
2022: King is asked if Cattrall would ever appear on the reboot and tells Variety, “No. Just like there was no thought that Kim would ever take part in And Just Like That… as a result of she’s mentioned what she had mentioned…You have to have a look at the actuality of one thing: You can actually not make an actress play an element.”
Parker says they did not method Cattrall — and she would not be OK along with her being in on this present at this level, telling Variety, “I don’t think I would, because I think there’s just too much public history of feelings on her part that she’s shared. I haven’t participated in or read articles, although people are inclined to let me know.”
Cattrall confirms to Variety she “was never asked to be part of the reboot.” As for a future look it “would never happen. She calls it a definite “no,” adding, “It’s highly effective to say no.” She also makes clear, “I have never abandoned anyone. Can you think about going again to a job you probably did 25 years in the past? And the job did not get simpler; it got extra sophisticated in the sense of how are you going to progress with these characters? Everything has to develop, or it dies.” She said after the second movie, she knew, “I’m done.”
Cattrall gives a speech at Variety’s Power of Women event on the power of saying “no.”
Parker says on the Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast that the catfight narrative is “painful,” explaining, I’ve never uttered fighting words in my life about anybody that I’ve worked with ever. There is not a ‘fight’ going on… There has been no public dispute or spat or conversations or allegations made by me or anybody on my behalf. I wouldn’t do it. That is not the way I would have it. So I just wish that they would stop calling this a ‘catfight’ or an ‘argument’ … There has been one person talking. And I’m not going to tell her not to … so that’s been kind of painful for me also.”
2023: Cattrall secretly shoots her cameo in March.
Ahead of the Season 2 premiere of AJLT, in May, the shock information breaks that Cattrall will seem in the closing episode. It’s additionally clear that it wasn’t a teary reunion. Cattrall did not work or communicate with Parker, Nixon or Davis. The showrunner, King, wasn’t there for her taking pictures.
The subsequent day, on June 1, Cattrall confirms the information, tying her announcement to Pride month.
The identical day, the trailer for the collection drops, promising an action-packed season. However, Cattrall isn’t included in the trailer.
We anticipate many extra chapters to this saga — 25 years in the making — to come as the stars do press for the season and different tasks. Stay tuned.
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