Sarah Jessica Parker Shares Exactly Why Kim Cattrall Wasn’t Invited to the Sex and the City Revival

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And Just Like That... Now is revealing exactly why she was missing from the show and dispelling rumors of a “catfight” between the costars.“It’s very hard to talk about the situation with Kim,” Parker said on ’s Awards Chatter podcast, before confirming that a third Sex and the City movie “fell apart” because of Cattrall’s contractual requirements. “[Warner Bros.] didn’t feel comfortable meeting where she wanted to meet, and so we didn’t do the movie because we didn’t want to do it without Kim,” Parker said. “Were we [she and costars ] disappointed?

Sure. But it happens.”But ties officially severed between Cattrall and the Sex and the City universe when she . In various interviews, Cattrall claimed that she had “never been friends” with her costars, suggested that Parker “could’ve been nicer” about the situation with the third film, and even slammed Parker for “exploiting” her brother’s 2018 death by sending condolences publicly.“There were just a lot of public conversations about how she felt about the show,” Parker told THR, many of which she found “very painful” because they didn’t mirror her and her other costars’ experience. “I’ve spent a lot of years working really hard to always be decent to everybody on the set, to take care of people, to be responsible to and for people, both my employers and the people that I feel I’m responsible for as a producer of the show,” Parker said. “And there just isn’t anyone else who’s ever talked about me this way.”Given how much Cattrall had publicly distanced herself from the foursome, Parker said the And Just Like That… creative team “felt comfortable moving on without her.” Cattrall shared last month, telling Variety, “I was never asked to be part of the reboot.