Kim Cattrall Reacts to Her Shocking Sex and the City Return

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Kim Cattrall Joins And Just Like That

Raise your cosmopolitans—Kim Cattrall is acceptable to bring the enactment backmost to Sex and the City.

One day after it was confirmed that the Sex and the City alum volition reprise her relation arsenic Samantha Jones successful sequel series And Just Like That..., she responded to the quality with a shoutout to LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

Alongside a screenshot of a Variety nonfiction connected her instrumentality to the franchise, Kim's June 1 Instagram station was captioned with the pridefulness flag, transgender emblem and rainbow emojis, arsenic good arsenic the connection "Happy Pride."

And she had plentifulness of people buzzing successful the comments, including Kris Jenner, who wrote, "FABULOUS!!!!!!!"

"Now this is the champion mode to footwear disconnected the month," How I Met Your Father actress Tien Tran added, portion different idiosyncratic chimed in, "Best quality of June truthful far!"

As for what fans tin expect from Kim's quality connected And Just Like That? The 66-year-old volition reportedly lone look successful 1 scene, which she filmed without interacting with the cast—including chap OG stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis—or showrunner Michael Patrick King, according to Variety, citing sources.

The cameo comes aft Kim had seemingly unopen down the thought of her playing Samantha Jones again, telling Variety successful May 2022 that "it's a large contented to cognize erstwhile capable is enough."

"I besides didn't privation to compromise what the amusement was to me," she added. "The mode guardant seemed clear."

But contempt remaining offscreen during play 1 of And Just Like That, her quality remained portion of the story—albeit estranged from the girls and surviving successful London. In the season 1 finale, Carrie Bradshaw—played by Parker, whom Kim has sparked feud rumors with implicit the years—can beryllium seen sending a substance to Samantha.

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And pursuing the episode's February 2022 airing, Cattrall expressed her mixed feelings implicit Samantha's offscreen inclusion successful the sequel series.

"It's odd, isn't it?" she told Variety of Samantha's involvement. "I don't cognize however to consciousness astir it."

While we hold for And Just Like That...'s June 22 premiere connected Max, support scrolling to larn everything determination is to cognize astir the 2nd second.

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Samantha's Back!

Kim Cattrall—who starred connected each six seasons of Sex and the City and its 2 spin-off movies, but did not reprise her relation for the archetypal play of And Just Like That...—will marque an quality connected the revival's 2nd season, a rep for Max (formerly HBO Max) confirmed to New York Post on May 31.

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A Rekindled Romance?

If you conscionable couldn't assistance but wonderment what's going connected with Carrie and Aidan, this February 2022 photograph of Sarah Jessica Parker and John Corbett acting retired a country for play 2 mightiness springiness you an idea.

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The Return of Aidan

In August 2022, Deadline reported that John Corbett—who played Carrie's fellow Aidan connected seasons 3 and 4 of Sex and the Citywould beryllium returning for "a substantial, multi-episode arc" connected play two. In January, Max officially confirmed Corbett's play 2 casting with first look photos.

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The Dress

In a Nov. 3 photograph from the And Just Like That... set, Carrie was seen wearing her iconic Vivienne Westwood formal from her wedding to Mr. Big (Chris Noth) successful the 2008 Sex and the City movie. 

Do we hear more wedding bells?

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A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

Charlotte's beloved canine Elizabeth Taylor was noticeably absent successful play one, which near immoderate fans befuddled. Charlotte did person a caller bulldog named Richard Burton, but it didn't rather consciousness close that the bequest and interaction of Elizabeth went unaddressed. 

In play two, a incorrect appears to person been righted. In a Nov. 15 Instagram post, costumer designers Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago shared an lipid coating of Elizabeth Taylor wearing a Burberry sweater, writing, "On charlotte's hallway wall."

Kristin Davis adjacent commented, "My archetypal baby."

May she remainder successful peace.

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A Return to Joy

While play 1 of And Just Like That... was an undeniable nostalgia rush, it was a bit....bleak. An full play centered astir decease and grief volition bash that.

However, the 2nd play promises a enactment of caller air, astatine slightest according to Sarah Aubrey, Max's caput of originals.

"What you're seeing this play is each of these characters embracing life," Aubrey told Variety Nov. 10. "It's a precise joyful play and I think, successful immoderate ways, it feels similar iconic Sex and the City episodes."

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A Premiere Date

Season 2 volition premiere connected Max on June 22.

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