Actress Kim Cattrall used the first day of Pride Month to seemingly confirm she’ll reprise her role as Samantha Jones in the upcoming season of “And Just Like That,” a sequel series to HBO’s “Sex and the City.”
This news came as a huge surprise for fans. The 66-year-old star previously said she was opposed to participating in any future “Sex and the City” projects, including films and TV series reboots. She was notably absent in the first season of “And Just Like That,” which follows the same characters in their next stage of life after the end of “Sex and the City.”
“Happy Pride,” Cattrall shared on her Instagram along with a link to the Variety article reporting the news of her return.
— Kim Cattrall (@KimCattrall) June 1, 2023
The publication noted that Cattrall filmed her series cameo on March 22 in New York City “without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series,” including Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis. Cattrall also didn’t interact with series creator Michael Patrick King, according to Variety.
She was dressed by famed “Sex and the City” designer Patricia Field for the appearance.
“It’s all so new right now,” King said of Cattrall agreeing to come back. “One of my big rules is, don’t tell things until they’re real.”
He hinted at bringing the women together, though. “My goal is to bring all the characters into the mix together, so that they’re not so much on separate runways.”
“And Just Like That” included Samantha’s character via text messages in season one to explain her absence. In real life, Cattrall and Parker had a strained relationship, which both women had hinted at in various interviews over the years. Cattrall made it clear she was not interested in participating in the new show.
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“The series is basically the third movie. That’s how creative it was,” she told Variety last year. “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.”
The actress was part of the first and second “Sex and the City” films, but a third movie got scrapped.
Parker said last year that Cattrall wasn’t asked to be part of the spinoff TV series because of her previous statements about being done with the franchise.
“She made it clear that that wasn’t something she wanted to pursue, and it no longer felt comfortable for us, and so it didn’t occur to us,” Parker said in 2022.
“That’s not ‘slamming’ her, it’s just learning. You’ve got to listen to somebody, and if they’re publicly talking about something and it doesn’t suggest it’s some place they want to be, or a person they want to play, or an environment in which they want to be, you get to an age where you’re like, ‘Well, we hear that.'”