No, Sarah Jessica Parker Would Not Be Okay With Kim Cattrall Showing Up On “And Just Like That…”
In the finale (or season finale) of the Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That…, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw connects again with Samantha Jones through texts and (!!!!!!!SPOILER ALERTS AHEAD!!!!!!), it seems like they’re on the way to patching things up. But that doesn’t mean that Kim Cattrall’s Samantha is going to show up in season two (if there is a season two) of AJTL. Because creator Michael Patrick King already said that the door is closed on Kim returning to the show. And now SJP has co-signed that. But SJP wants to make it clear that Kim Cattrall and Samantha Jones are completely separate and while Kim may be gone from the SATCverse, Samantha is not. You hear that, Christina Aguilera?! Call your agent because your Samantha Jones impersonation may be needed.
While talking about the finale with Variety, MPK and SJP briefly got into Chris Noth’s Mr. Big getting cut from the final episode. MPK says that Chris Noth getting the chop was not solely due to the sexual assault allegations against him, saying it wasn’t necessarily a “political” action and he wasn’t sure Mr. Big would’ve made it into the episode anyway.
“There’s an artistic element to this that’s not just political,” he said, and in the edit, King may have decided that it didn’t work, even without the baggage of what Noth has been accused of. “Dreams are always dicey,” he said.
As for Samantha Jones, Kim Cattrall has said before that she’s done with SATC and has moved on. But when rumors of a second season of the revival first started, it was suggested the door was always open for Kim to come back. But NO! That’s not the case anymore. At the very end of the finale, Carrie texts Samantha asking if she’d like to get together for a cocktail. Samantha texts back right away asking if tomorrow works. That is just nuts because Samantha Jones would not text back that fast like she’s desperate! Stop spitting in my face with these lies. But according to SJP, we’ll never see them have that cocktail because she says that Kim is never coming back, mostly because of all the “public history“ they have.
If some miracle were to happen, and Cattrall wanted to play Samantha again, would Parker be OK with that? “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,” Parker said. “I haven’t participated in or read articles, although people are inclined to let me know…”
“We didn’t go to Kim for this, you know,” Parker said. “After we didn’t do the movie and the studio couldn’t meet what she wanted to do, we have to hear her and listen to her and what was important to her. It didn’t fit into what was important or needed for us.”
“There’s a very distinct line between Samantha and Kim,” Parker continued. “Samantha’s not gone. Samantha’s present, and I think was handled with such respect and elegance. She wasn’t villainized. She was a human being who had feelings about a relationship, so I think we found a way to address it which was necessary and important for people that loved her.”
Samantha Jones is most certainly not present. Samantha would’ve slapped some sense into Miranda for dropping her entire life for someone who is obviously going to drop Miranda fast. And Samantha would’ve let Carrie know that if she wants to get into podcasting, true crime podcasts are really where it’s at. And Carrie could start with the true crime that is And Just Like That…
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