"Sex and the City" Cast 21 Years Ago: Live From E! Rewind
We couldn't assistance but wonder…will Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall's feud ever truly spell away?
While the Sex and the City co-stars person spent much clip denying rumors of immoderate animosity than really playing Carrie Bradshaw and Samantha Jones successful the past decade, there's nary denying there's decidedly immoderate atrocious humor betwixt them aft plans for a 3rd Sex and the City movie fell done successful 2018.
Which is wherefore fans were shocked erstwhile it was confirmed that Catrall would beryllium returning arsenic Samantha successful the upcoming 2nd season of Max's And Just Like That... after initially choosing to beryllium retired of the revival bid that reunited Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. But that doesn't mean viewers volition really spot Cattrall interact with immoderate of her erstwhile co-stars, arsenic Variety reported she didn't really spot oregon talk to them portion filming her 1 country this spring.
So there's that.
And, sure, nine does person a inclination to pit women starring connected TV shows against each different (see: SATC, Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, etc.) but wherever there's fume there's usually a fire. Sometimes, co-workers conscionable don't get along, similar the idiosyncratic successful E! News' offices who likes to vigor up food successful the room for luncheon each day. Ahem.
But, with this latest installment update successful SJP and Cattrall's long-simmering feud, we decided to instrumentality a stroll down representation lane to spot each the times they've addressed the headlines since SATC debuted successful 1998. Grab your rental...
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December 2004: While determination were ever rumors of feline fights softly plaguing the acceptable of Sex and the City passim its six-season run, things came to airy arsenic the amusement was ending when Cattrall told British speech amusement big Jonathan Ross that she had demanded much money.
"I felt aft six years it was clip for each of america to enactment successful the fiscal windfall of Sex and The City," she said connected Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, adding she asked to beryllium paid $1 cardinal per occurrence (up from a reported $350,000) if the amusement were to continue. "When they didn't look keen connected that I thought it was clip to determination on."
Parker, present 56, was paid much arsenic she was an enforcement shaper connected the series.
May 2008: Four years later, fans were delighted erstwhile SATC returned, bringing the ladies to the large screen. But the movie, which was primitively expected to commencement filming close aft the bid wrapped, was delayed owed to ongoing wage negotiations.
Parker addressed the wealth speech and defended Cattrall erstwhile The Telegraph visited the acceptable of the archetypal movie.
"She mentioned wealth and nary 1 should vilify her for it," she said. "People made a determination that we had vilified her. No 1 bothered to accidental [to the remainder of us], 'Are you disappointed by not making the movie?' Yes. 'Do you respect and enactment her prime to not bash it?' Absolutely.'"
In Marie Claire's screen communicative up of the film's premiere date, erstwhile HBO CEO Chris Albrecht weighed successful connected the wage disputes. "When you're keeping radical for years, you person to proceed to wage them much money," helium said. "Sarah was becoming much and much famous, and her wage accrued beyond what was contractually committed, which is mean for deed shows. The different actresses wanted to support up."
December 2009: In a amusement of support, Cattrall and Nixon be the NYC premiere of Parker's caller movie, Did You Hear About the Morgans?
In the aforesaid month, Parker was connected the screen of Elle, and erstwhile again, talked astir Cattrall and the alleged wage disputes that delayed the archetypal movie. "I don't deliberation anybody wants to judge that I emotion Kim," Parker told the mag. "I adore her. I wouldn't person done the movie without her. Didn't and wouldn't."
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In the article, Cattrall compliments Parker, saying, "She shines and she allows you to radiance arsenic well."
January 2010: In an in-depth interrogation with The Daily Mail, Cattrall expressed her exasperation implicit the never-ending feud rumors.
"People don't privation to judge that we get on. They person excessively overmuch invested successful the thought of 2 strong, palmy women warring with each other. It makes for juicy gossip and copy," she said. "The information of america being friends and getting on and happily doing our jobs unneurotic is obscurity adjacent arsenic newsworthy. I deliberation Sarah is fantastic. She is simply a calved person and she guides the unit and the formed successful specified a beardown but gentle way. She and I are sick of this. It's exhausting talking astir it, and a existent bore. Next?"
May 2010: The 4 ladies posed for Marie Claire ahead of the 2nd film's premiere, and erstwhile again, they addressed the feud rumors.
Parker admitted that sometimes "feelings get hurt" owed to however overmuch clip they walk filming.
"You're connected set, you're moving 90-hour weeks, you're ne'er home, you're exhausted," she said. "There are times erstwhile each of america person been delicate and sometimes feelings get hurt. But I don't person immoderate regrets astir however I've treated people."
Cattrall besides spoke to the "stressful" days connected set, telling the mag, "Nineteen-hour workdays are stressful, whether you're driving a truck, moving successful a ember excavation oregon connected a acceptable and trying to beryllium your brightest astatine 4 o'clock successful the morning. But there's a camaraderie that happened done each of that..the chemistry among the 4 of america is precise strong."
Musing connected speech of the feud, she reasoned, "because the property has to enactment women successful these boxes, alternatively than amusement them arsenic the movie portrays them: moving unneurotic and being powerful. Things conscionable person to beryllium explosive for nary different crushed than for people's imaginations."
Nixon also weighed in, adding, "It hasn't ever been creaseless sailing. But the thought that we're someway adversarial is ludicrous."
August 2016: Parker takes to Instagram to post a connection to Cattrall connected her 60th birthday. "Sending emotion and the precise champion for a perfectly marvelous, joyous, steadfast and escapade filled day year," she captioned the pic. "Your ol' pal, chap mischief shaper and 'sister', Sj xxx."
September 2016: The adjacent month, SJP talked to Time about the effect her day station received from fans and the media.
"I posted thing connected Kim's day and radical were like, 'Oh my God, I didn't cognize you liked her!'" she said. "What? We were each astatine liberty to locomotion distant astatine immoderate time! But cipher asked those questions of shows with men. Isn't that interesting?"
October 2016: Parker is asked astir the feud rumors erstwhile she goes connected Howard Stern's vigor show, and brought up society's inclination to pit women against 1 another.
"It utilized to truly confound maine and truly upset maine due to the fact that we were portion of a family with Sopranos and nary 1 ever questioned the relationships of the men connected that amusement and nary 1 ever said to them, 'Did you bent retired this play with each other? Did you springiness each different Christmas presents?'" she said. "These were my sisters, these were radical that I grew to emotion and admire."
She continued, "Was each time perfect? Were radical ever desperately, hopefully successful emotion with each other? No, but this is simply a household of radical who needed each other, relied upon each different and loved each other. This benignant of narrative, this ongoing catfight, it truly upset maine for a precise agelong time."
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September 2017: SJP confirmed that a 3rd Sex and the City movie had been this close to happening. "It's over...we're not doing it," she told Extra. "I'm disappointed. We had this beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, joyful, precise relatable publication and story. It's not conscionable disappointing that we don't get to archer the communicative and person that experience, but much truthful for that assemblage that has been truthful vocal successful wanting different movie."
Willie Garson, who played Carrie's BFF Stan, cryptically tweeted, "Disappointed for each unit holding connected for negotiations to reason for their jobs, and of course, for the fans. Leave it astatine that. #Truth."
Reports past cited Cattrall as the lone hold-out, thing she was speedy to contradict connected Twitter, shooting down rumors of her alleged demands. "Woke 2 a @MailOnline [poop emoji] storm! The lone 'DEMAND' I ever made was that I didn't privation to bash a 3rd film....& that was backmost successful 2016."
October 2017: But Cattrall wasn't done talking, going connected to archer Piers Morgan during an quality connected his ITV show, Life Stories, that Parker "could person been nicer" astir the demise of SATC 3.
"And now, present astatine this precise infinitesimal it's rather bonzer to get immoderate benignant of antagonistic property astir thing that I've been saying for astir a twelvemonth of 'no' that I'm demanding oregon a diva," Cattrall said, according to The Daily Mail. "And this is truly wherever I instrumentality to task the radical from Sex and the City and specifically Sarah Jessica Parker successful that I deliberation she could person been nicer. I truly deliberation she could person been nicer. I don't cognize what her contented is, I ne'er have."
February 2018: Days aft Parker expressed her condolences implicit the passing of Catrall's brother Christopher Cattrall, the histrion took to Instagram and asked her erstwhile co-star to prevention her words.
"My Mom asked maine contiguous 'When volition that @sarahjessicaparker, that hypocrite, permission you alone?' Your continuous reaching retired is simply a achy reminder of however cruel you truly were past and now," Cattrall wrote successful her Instagram caption. "Let maine marque this VERY clear. (If I haven't already) You are not my family. You are not my friend."
She added, "So I'm penning to archer you 1 past clip to halt exploiting our calamity successful bid to reconstruct your 'nice girl' persona."
In an interview with People conducted little than 24 hours aft Cattrall's Instagram post, Parker commented connected her erstwhile co-star's characterization of the situation.
"I ne'er talked astir it, but [to say] that immoderate of america were disappointed [about the movie not happening]," Parker said. "But I ne'er responded to the speech Kim had with Piers Morgan, wherever she said things that were truly hurtful astir me. We had this acquisition and it was amazing, and thing volition ever beryllium similar it. We had a transportation with an audience, and we had a transportation with the metropolis and with this crew, and we got to archer these brainsick stories with each other. So I don't privation to messiness with that. I couldn't ideate anyone other playing that part."
However, per the magazine, Parker wasn't readying connected responding to Cattrall's latest message.
April 2018: In an interrogation with Vulture, Parker argued her side of things, telling the outlet that the tabloid stories astir her and Cattrall had simply been blown retired of proportion. "I'd conscionable similar to punctual everybody that determination is nary catfight," she said. "I person ne'er uttered an unkind, unsupportive, unfriendly word, truthful I would emotion to redefine it."
According to SJP, she and Cattrall really got on disconnected camera.
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"There were 4 women connected the acceptable and I spent adjacent clip with each of them, truthful this was not a acceptable with 2 women who didn't get along. I've ever held Kim's enactment successful precocious respect and ever appreciative of her contributions," Parker said. "If she chooses not to bash the 3rd movie, there's not a batch I tin bash to alteration her caput and we indispensable respect it. That's the lone happening I've ever said astir it, you know?"
She reiterated: "There is nary catfight. There ne'er has been a catfight. I've ne'er fought with idiosyncratic publically successful my life, nor would I. And I spent clip with each of the women connected the set. People request to callback that it wasn't conscionable 2 women connected the acceptable warring due to the fact that that conscionable ne'er happened."
October 2018: Despite each of the drama, Parker admitted she couldn't "imagine" doing different SATC movie without Cattrall.
The remark came erstwhile a instrumentality wrote to the prima connected Instagram, "You are inactive my hero. Please regenerate oregon constitute her retired Kim / Samantha if she is not funny and bring backmost enactment and the metropolis movie #3. The fans request this." The histrion replied, "Not definite if I tin ideate doing different movie without her."
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November 2018: Weeks later, a source revealed to E! News what led to the 3rd installment's demise.
According to the insider, it "was a operation of not large wealth and a atrocious storyline for Samantha" that discouraged Cattrall from signing on.
What made the publication truthful atrocious you whitethorn ask? Well, for starters, Samantha's "main storyline" revolved astir her and Miranda's 14-year-old lad Brady. Early successful the film, Brady gets caught masturbating. He is besides caught sending "dick pics" of his erect penis to Samantha. Awkward.
Plus, Cattrall reportedly besides had an contented with the determination to person Carrie's hubby Big (Chris Noth) die, according to Origins host James Andrew Miller. The podcaster claimed this storyline irked Cattrall since the movie would've been "more astir however Carrie recovers from Big's decease than astir the narration betwixt the 4 women."
Cut to...
January 2021: Parker, Nixon and Davis confirmed the beloved bid is coming backmost to beingness astatine HBO Max. Not lone volition it diagnostic a caller storyline but an wholly caller name: And Just Like That... volition not spot Cattrall returning arsenic Samantha.
"The bid volition travel Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte arsenic they navigate the travel from the analyzable world of beingness and relationship successful their 30s to the adjacent much analyzable world of beingness and relationship successful their 50s," a statement read. "The 10-episode, half-hour bid is scheduled to statesman accumulation successful New York precocious spring."
And erstwhile a instrumentality inquired astir whether oregon not the relation of Samantha would beryllium recast, Parker responded—sort of—on Instagram.
She simply wrote, "we person immoderate caller stories to tell. We are excited."
But erstwhile different commenter claimed Parker and Cattrall "dislike each other," Parker had much to say.
"No. I don't dislike her," she stated. "I've ne'er said that. Never would. Samantha isn't portion of this story. But she volition ever beryllium portion of us. No substance wherever we are oregon what we do."
In effect to different instrumentality who commented that they "will miss Kim/Samantha," Parker responded, "We volition too. We loved her so."
While she didn't straight admit the project, Cattrall seemed to subtly respond erstwhile she deed the "like" fastener connected a fan's Twitter post astir her determination not to return.
"I perfectly emotion Sex and the City and whilst I americium saddened that Samantha volition not return, I applaud doing what is champion for you and deliberation this is large illustration of putting yourself first," the tweet, posted connected Jan. 11, read. "Well done @KimCattrall."
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June 2021: When And Just Like That... debuted, Samantha's lack was instantly felt and addressed: She had moved to London and stopped speaking to the women aft Carrie informed the legendary publicist she nary longer required her services. Still, Carrie reached retired to Samantha passim the archetypal season.
"I consciousness erstwhile someone's successful your bosom and successful your psyche and friendships, however bash your friends enactment you erstwhile you're going done the worst happening that tin happen?" showrunner Michael Patrick King explained to Variety of keeping Samantha successful the amusement done substance messages. "I recovered it absorbing that Carrie would scope retired to Samantha successful definite circumstantial times...So I emotion the thought of the dance—the existent emotion being the reach."
May 2022: Despite Samantha's inclusion successful the caller series, Cattrall said she had nary involvement successful reprising her iconic role.
"It's a large contented to cognize erstwhile capable is enough," she told Variety. "I besides didn't privation to compromise what the amusement was to me. The mode guardant seemed clear."
At the time, Cattrall said she was "never asked to beryllium portion of the reboot," though she noted that she had already made it beauteous wide that she had nary volition to instrumentality aft 2010's Sex and the City 2 movie.
May 2023: Weeks up of the June 22 play 2 premiere of And Just Like That..., fans were absof--kingloutely shocked erstwhile Cattrall's return arsenic Samantha Jones was confirmed by the show's authoritative Twitter account. Per Variety, Catrall volition lone look successful 1 country and did not interact with immoderate of her erstwhile co-stars oregon King erstwhile she filmed her cameo connected March 22.
Though, aft play 1 wrapped with Samantha and Carrie making plans to conscionable up successful Paris, fans volition reportedly beryllium treated to a telephone speech betwixt the estranged BFFs.
(Originally published Tuesday, October 3, 2017 astatine 11:33 a.m. PST)
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