Sarah Jessica Parker: I don’t think I’d be OK with Kim Cattrall on ‘AJLT’
And just like that … Sarah Jessica Parker erased any possibility of Kim Cattrall showing up.
When Parker was asked whether she would be OK with Cattrall joining a potential second season of “And Just Like That…,” the “Sex and the City” star gave a brutally honest answer.
“I don’t think I would, because I think there’s just too much public history of feelings on her part that she’s shared,” Parker told Variety.
“I haven’t participated in or read articles, although people are inclined to let me know.”
Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones on the original HBO series and was missing from the revival save for the occasional text message, has long maintained she would never return to the franchise because of feuds with her former co-stars.
Meanwhile, Parker, 56, has vehemently denied any feuding.
The shoe designer’s comments are a far cry from her public feelings a year ago, when she said she’d “miss” Cattrall, 65, on the new series.
“Happy to see you back but will miss Kim/Samantha,” a commenter wrote on Parker’s Instagram in January 2021, to which she replied, “We will too. We loved her so. X.”
In the premiere episode of “And Just Like That…,” Cattrall’s character had moved to London for work and later revealed that her “pride got damaged” after Carrie Bradshaw (Parker) fired her as her publicist when the publishing industry changed. She quipped that, in response, Samantha had “fired her” as a friend.
“We didn’t go to Kim for this, you know,” Parker told Variety of Cattrall’s absence. “After we didn’t do the movie and the studio couldn’t meet what she wanted to do, we have to hear her and listen to her and what was important to her. It didn’t fit into what was important or needed for us.”
