Kim Cattrall has finally broken her silence on And Just Like That after backing out of the third Sex and the City movie and the tea is piping hot.
Appearing on the cover of Variety, Cattrall claimed she found out about And Just Like That the same way the rest of us did: via social media.
She said she wasn’t asked to join the HBO Max revival, but added that she wasn’t “surprised” either.
“I was never asked to be part of the reboot. I made my feelings clear after the possible third movie, so I found out about it like everyone else did — on social media,” she said.
When asked how she felt about it, she responded: “I was like, ‘Ooooh.’ How’s … [pauses]”
The journo finished her sentence for her, adding: “How’s that going to work?” to which she replied, “You said it. Not me.”
SHADYYYYYYY!
She went on to mock the creativity of the show, saying: “The series is basically the third movie. That’s how creative it was.”
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She also revealed a suss as fuck storyline that was also planned for the ill-fated movie.
In the script, Miranda’s 14-year-old son Brady was set to send Samantha nudes, a storyline Cattrall called “heartbreaking.”
“Why can’t Samantha, who owns her PR company—maybe she had to sell it because of financial woes?” Cattrall suggested, adding, “I mean that’s a scenario that was kind of off the top of one of my reps’ heads, and I thought that’s a great idea. That’s a conflict. Instead of an underage boy’s…”
She said she wasn’t a fan of how her character had evolved over the years.
“I felt like I was now cast as a cougar, which became not as positive as other aspects,” she said. “There was never a desperation; it was always on her terms, which I loved.”
When asked about former co-star and rival Sarah Jessica Parker‘s comments that she wouldn’t be OK with Cattrall playing Samantha, Cattrall said she hadn’t heard about it, adding, “It would never happen anyway. So nobody has to worry about that.”
“I don’t ever want to be on a set and not want to be there,” she added.
“Can you imagine going back to a job you did 25 years ago? And the job didn’t get easier; it got more complicated in the sense of how are you going to progress with these characters? Everything has to grow, or it dies.”
SJP (left) and Kim Cattrall (right) in the OG Sex and the City.
Although Cattrall wasn’t in And Just Like That, her character Samantha was referenced multiple times, but Cattrall reckons this Samantha “feels different than the Samantha that I played.”
“I’ve come to the conclusion that really the greatest compliment I could have as an actor is to be missed,” she said.
With all this said, she wishes her former co-stars, who she described as “acquaintances,” the absolute best: “As difficult as it was, and as scary as it is to stand up and not be bullied by the press or the fans or whomever—to just say, I’m good. I’m on this track. It was so great working with you. I so enjoyed it, but I’m over here.”
Prior to now, Kim had been unusually quiet on the matter.
Her only reactions to the revival thus far came in the form of a coupla tweets that she had liked.
The actress liked a tweet that applauded her for declining to appear in the revival.
The tweet read, “I absolutely love Sex and the City and whilst I am saddened that Samantha will not return, I applaud doing what is best for you and think this is great example of putting yourself first. Well done @KimCattrall.”
It comes after the third Sex & The City film was scrapped after Kim Cattrall pulled out at the last minute.
Back in 2016, she told the Daily Record that she doesn’t feel like the iconic noughties series fits into the current climate.
“I think the climate changed,” she said. “To have four women talking about shopping trips and spending $400 on shoes when people are having trouble putting food on the table?”
Not to mention the fact that she doesn’t want to be “in a situation for even an hour where I’m not enjoying myself,” as she famously told The Guardian.
