'And Just Like That's Michael Patrick King Reveals What Willie Garson's Storyline Would Have Been

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executive producer, writer and director Michael Patrick King is talking about beloved late actor Willie Garson, and his original plans for Garson's character in the revival before the actor's devastating death.Garson, who played Carrie Bradshaw's best friend Stanford Blatch, had been battling pancreatic cancer and died in September at 57 years old.

As viewers found out in the fourth episode of the new HBO Max series, Stanford abruptly decided to get a divorce from his husband, Anthony, and moved to Tokyo to manage a 17-year-old TikTok star.

King said his original plan was for Stanford to be in all 10 episodes of season 1 of the revival, but Garson couldn't complete filming.«Stanford was going to have a midlife crisis,» King revealed in a new Q&A with «Stanford's character always had a borderline career as a manager, and we were like going to explore the fact that it wasn't a real career.

It was going to be Carrie [played by Sarah Jessica Parker] and him, feeling the shifts. Anthony and him were probably going to have split anyway.»«Then we would keep both of them in, and everybody would be relieved that they were divorced because it was not pleasant for anybody,» he continued. «But there was a series of really fun, flirty, hilarious confidante scenes with Carrie that I loved.