Everything And Just Like That’s Cast and Crew Has Said About Kim Cattrall’s Cameo

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Kim Cattrall will finally return as Samantha Jones on season 2 of And Just Like That, but her fellow Sex and the City costars have hinted that her cameo isn’t necessarily a sign of a more to come.“Now that [fans] know about it, it seems like this very large thing, but it’s not really a very large thing,” Kristin Davis, who plays Charlotte York on the Max series, told Entertainment Weekly on June 20. “So, I’m hoping that people are happy.”Before AJLT premiered in December 2021, Davis’ colleagues had made it clear that Cattrall wouldn’t be back for the revival series after she declined to participate in a third SATC film.“We did not ask her to be part of this because 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,” Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Carrie Bradshaw, explained to The Hollywood Reporter in June 2022. “You’ve got to listen to somebody, and if they’re publicly talking about something and it doesn’t suggest it’s someplace 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.’”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesThough Cattrall didn’t appear in season 1, AJLT writers explained her absence by saying that Samantha had moved to London after she stopped working as Carrie’s book publicist.

Carrie exchanged a handful of text messages with Samantha throughout the episodes, but Cattrall herself was never shown on screen.Cattrall later said she found it “odd” that Samantha was still discussed in the world of AJLT. “I don’t know how to feel about it.