After row with SJP, Kim’s out of Sex And The City reboot
Ten years on, the girls are back – but after her rift with Sarah Jessica Parker, there’s no room for Kim Cattrall. Which means...
SEX And The City is maki ng 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.
Ms Parker and Ms Cattrall have not enjoyed the happiest of relationships.
I n 2017 Ms Cattrall r uled herself out of a possible third movie based on t he series after claiming t here was a ‘toxic relationship’ on set.
But at the weekend Ms Parker, 55, dismissed rumours of a feud as she responded to a fan who claimed Ms 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 marriageobsessed 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...’ Ms Davis, 55, and Ms Nixon, 54, also shared the post.
Narrated by Ms Bradshaw, the original Sex And The City followed four friends – in their mid- thirties and forties – as they navigated f riendships, love, careers and New York’s nightlife i n the l ate- 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 Ms Cattrall and Ms Parker soured further when Ms Parker sent a sympathetic post after Ms Cattrall’s brother died.
Ms Cattrall accused her of ‘ exploiting our tragedy’ to restore her ‘nice girl persona’.
Ms Parker said she felt ‘heartbroken’ by Ms Cattrall’ s comments that she and her costars were not friends. Ms 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 Ms Parker ‘could have been nicer’ about her not wanting to do a third film. Ms Cattrall said she had been ‘made to be the baddie… to be thought of as some kind of diva i s 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.