KIM’S AN EX IN THE CITY
Ten years on, the girls are back – but after rift with Sarah Jessica Parker, there’s no room for British-born Cattrall. Which means...
SEX And The City is making a comeback – but without one of its principal characters.
Sarah Jessica Parker, who played columnist Carrie Bradshaw in the hit series, has confirmed the show is to return – but there will be no sex-crazed Samantha Jones played by Kim Cattrall.
Miss Parker and Miss Cattrall have not enjoyed the happiest of relationships. In 2017 Miss Cattrall ruled herself out of a possible third movie based on the series after claiming there was a ‘toxic relationship’ on set.
But at the weekend Miss Parker, 55, dismissed rumours of a feud as she responded to a fan who claimed Miss Cattrall, 64, has been dropped because she was ‘disliked’.
‘No,’ she said. ‘I don’t dislike her. I’ve never said that. Samantha isn’t part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. X.’
She broke the news of the new series – to be called And Just Like That… – on Instagram, revealing that she will reprise her role as Carrie, alongside Kristin Davis as marriage-obsessed Charlotte York-Goldenblatt and Cynthia Nixon as lawyer Miranda Hobbes.
She posted a teaser, featuring scenes from New York City as well as a computer screen typing out the sentence: ‘And just like that... The story continues...’ Miss Davis, 55, and Miss Nixon, 54, also shared the post.
Narrated by Miss Bradshaw, the original Sex And The City followed four friends – in their mid- thirties and forties – as they navigated friendships, love, careers and New York’s nightlife in the late- 90s and early-2000s.
Based on Candace Bushnell’s 1997 book of the same name, it premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004. Two films, Sex And The City and Sex And The City 2, hit the big screen in 2008 and 2010, the latter to poor reviews.
A third film was cancelled in 2017 and in 2018 the relationship between Liverpool-born Miss Cattrall and Miss Parker soured further when Miss Parker sent a sympathetic post after Miss Cattrall’s brother died.
Miss Cattrall accused her of ‘ exploiting our tragedy’ to restore her ‘nice girl persona’.
Miss Parker said she felt ‘heartbroken’ by Miss Cattrall’s comments that she and her costars were not friends. Miss Cattrall had told Piers Morgan in 2017: ‘We’ve never been friends.
‘We’ve been colleagues and, in some ways, it’s a very healthy place to be because then you have a clear line between your professional life and your personal.’ She also claimed that Miss Parker ‘could have been nicer’ about her not wanting to do a third film.
Miss Cattrall said she had been ‘made to be the baddie… to be thought of as some kind of diva is absolutely ridiculous’.
Production of the new series will begin in late spring on ten half-hour episodes. A release date has yet to be announced.