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

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

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.'” [sendtonews type="float" key="j28VfEZRw2-2826731-14453"] Though 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. It’s so finite for me, so it doesn’t continue,” she told Variety in May 2022. “This feels like an echo of the past. Other than the really wonderful feeling of — it’s rare in my business — people wanting more, especially at 65. That feels powerful, that I’ve left something behind that I’m so proud of. I loved her. I loved her so, so, so much.” One year later, however, news broke that Cattrall would return to AJLT after all, albeit in a small cameo role where Samantha has a brief phone conversation with Carrie. According to Variety, Patricia Field dressed Cattrall for her role, which was filmed without any of the main cast members or showrunner Michael Patrick King. Field was the costume designer for the original run of SATC, but she didn't return for AJLT because she was already working on Netflix's Emily in Paris. "I was really excited about the idea," Parker told Entertainment Tonight of Cattrall's return on June 20. "I thought it was a really good idea and I was thrilled that, you know, we could make it happen and that it worked for her and it's just really nice to see. It's really nice. I was really pleased." Season 2 of And Just Like That premieres on Max Thursday, June 22. Keep scrolling for everything the cast and crew have said about Cattrall's return:

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

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.'” [sendtonews type="float" key="j28VfEZRw2-2826731-14453"] Though 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. It’s so finite for me, so it doesn’t continue,” she told Variety in May 2022. “This feels like an echo of the past. Other than the really wonderful feeling of — it’s rare in my business — people wanting more, especially at 65. That feels powerful, that I’ve left something behind that I’m so proud of. I loved her. I loved her so, so, so much.” One year later, however, news broke that Cattrall would return to AJLT after all, albeit in a small cameo role where Samantha has a brief phone conversation with Carrie. According to Variety, Patricia Field dressed Cattrall for her role, which was filmed without any of the main cast members or showrunner Michael Patrick King. Field was the costume designer for the original run of SATC, but she didn't return for AJLT because she was already working on Netflix's Emily in Paris. "I was really excited about the idea," Parker told Entertainment Tonight of Cattrall's return on June 20. "I thought it was a really good idea and I was thrilled that, you know, we could make it happen and that it worked for her and it's just really nice to see. It's really nice. I was really pleased." Season 2 of And Just Like That premieres on Max Thursday, June 22. Keep scrolling for everything the cast and crew have said about Cattrall's return:

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Sarah Jessica Parker

"Samantha is present in season 1 and more so in season 2 via text. It was just a nice nod to the 25 years [of SATC] to add the face to the text," Parker told Entertainment Weekly on June 20. "And it's a really opportune moment in the story, [a] consequential event happening in Carrie's life, that Samantha rings and they have this quick, lovely, sentimental, funny call. And it just feels normal and really nice, and I'm glad that we could manage it and work it out and get it sorted time-wise and schedule-wise."

Parker told the New Yorker in a June 2023 premiere that she is “in the scene” with Cattrall.

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Cynthia Nixon

Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbes, admitted that she was disappointed news of Cattrall's cameo leaked before fans got to see it happen on the show. "It's such a bummer that the cat got outta the bag and that it was leaked, because we went to so many lengths to try to hide it," Nixon told EW on June 20. "The thing that we were also really excited about was to have nobody be expecting Samantha and then have her pop in. I just hope it's not just a tremendous anti-climax, to be frank."

Days earlier, Nixon hinted that she and her castmates had to tread carefully around Cattrall when they were filming the original series. "Many things felt different," she told Vanity Fair on June 15, referring to her experience on the AJLT set. "But the main thing that felt so great was that everybody who was there really wanted to be there. That's just the bottom line. We all love each other, we love our show, we wanted to do more of it. And we all wanted to be there. So that makes an enormous difference, that you're not walking around on eggshells with someone who's unhappy for reasons that are hard to even understand what they are."

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Kristin Davis

"We know people miss her. We get it. You know, we wanted to kind of acknowledge them and try to give them what they want within the story and the situation that we're in," Davis told ET on June 20. "And so that seemed the solution, you know, in terms of, like, people come and go in your life. Maybe people move or they get married or whatever it is that happens that changes their circumstance, but that doesn't mean that you're not friends or that you're not connected still."

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Michael Patrick King

The AJLT showrunner said that he's "a little bit upset" fans already know about Cattrall's cameo. "I really wanted you to be sitting there watching the show, see Carrie look at her phone and all of a sudden seeing Samantha," he told ET on June 20. "But there's a secret. You don't know why she's there and what's going to happen."

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Sarita Choudhury

Choudhury, who plays Carrie's friend Seema Patel, said she didn't know about Cattrall's cameo until she read about it online. “I found out like [the world] found out. I read it and I remember I was just like, ‘What?! How did I not know this?'” she exclusively told Us Weekly on June 13, adding that she's still waiting to see whether the cameo will turn into something bigger. "I literally am like, ‘Wait, how can you just do a cameo? Where does that lead to?’ It plants a seed in everyone’s head. Is just a cameo possible? I don’t know.”

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Evan Handler

“I think it is great. I do,” Handler, who plays Charlotte's husband, Harry Goldenblatt, told People of the appearance on June 3, adding that he found out when the rest of the world did. “Apparently, [her cameo] was shot in the garage somewhere with no contact with anybody, so the only place I have to welcome her is into my living room when it airs on television."

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Molly Rogers

Rogers, AJLT's costume designer, teased that Cattrall's return could happen anywhere. "Maybe she's in a bathtub," Rogers joked to E! News on June 20, adding that she was "very, very happy" to have Field back in the mix as Samantha's stylist. "She and Kim have remained close after all this time."