It’s the news that sent the And Just Like That… rumour mill into overdrive, but Sarah Jessica Parker has admitted that the news leaking about Kim Cattrall’s cameo in the latest season of the show ‘upset’ her.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live, the actor said: '[I] couldn’t have been more upset.
'It’s a big bummer because it would’ve been so like fireworks in the middle, you know, and also because we want to make sure that expectations are real.’
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Parker also shared more about Cattrall’s appearance in the second season. She said: 'Like it’s a little exchange that is happy and it says everything about their relationship and all the stuff that’s off camera.
'Like yeah, they’re talking. They talk all the time, and it comes at a significant moment of the series so…’
According to Variety, Cattrall returns for only one 'cliffhanger' scene, which she shot on March 22 in New York City, without seeing or speaking with her fellow co-stars, including Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. The scene was also shot without AJLT showrunner Michael Patrick King. The scene is said to depict a phone call between Cattrall's character, Samantha Jones, who's relocated to London, and Parker's Bradshaw.
The New York Post revealed that Cattrall's cameo in the sophomoric series was so secretive that her name did not even appear on the call sheet for the day, leaving people stunned at her presence on set. Her scene was rumoured to be filmed in a parking garage near Silvercup Studios in Queens, where she was dressed by Sex And The City's original costume designer, Patricia Field – who Cattrall specifically asked to dress her for her return to the series.
The sequel, which debuted on HBO Max on June 22, debuted to lower viewing figures than its predecessor. Season one of AJLT averaged 1.1 million households during the live-plus-three-day viewing period, according to data provided by Samba TV, which measures TV engagement. Season two’s debut episode was watched by 463,000 households during the same period, a decrease of 59%.
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