And Just Like That… Samantha’s back!? Really?
According to the NY Post, Kim Cattrall, who has famously feuded with former co-star and producer Sarah Jessica Parker recently filmed a “cliffhanger” scene for the upcoming Season 2 of the Max spinoff And Just Like That…
A spokesperson for Max confirmed the appearance exclusively to The Post.
Sources revealed that Cattrall made a hugely “hush-hush” cameo that left no paper trail to tip off show workers beforehand (her name never even appeared on a call sheet) leaving many people stunned behind the scenes.
An insider told The Post that show staffers were,
definitely shocked, very intrigued on how they’re gonna write this in — and very excited.
She said she’d never do it! She said she’d never come back!”
Details about Cattrall’s “completely” secretive appearance are slim, but an insider claimed that her scene was filmed in March in a town car in a parking garage near Silvercup Studios in Queens, where interiors for the series are shot.
The filming was so clandestine, Cattrall arrived in an SUV with blacked-out windows to help hide her down-low shoot from prying eyes.
The insider said,
The fact that they’re keeping it very hush-hush says that there’s some implication that she might be coming back — not this season, but it’s definitely a cliffhanger that’s gonna get people to come back for Season 3.”
The two famously feuded and Cattrall told Piers Morgan in October 2017,
The common ground that we had was the series and the series is over.
Sarah Jessica, she could have been nicer, she could have in some way.
I don’t know what her issue is, I never have.”
But Parker has insisted that she was never mean to Cattrall – nor was there bad blood between the two. She told The Post in 2018,
I don’t have a disagreement with Kim [Cattrall], there’s no catfight. I’ve never said anything publicly, nor would I.
I’ve only ever expressed admiration and gratitude for everything she contributed — and I still feel that way.”
Showrunner Michael Patrick King put the lid on the whole return when he nixed the idea, telling Variety in February 2022,
I have no realistic expectation of Kim Cattrall ever appearing again.”
But in the Season 1 And Just Like That finalé, Samantha and Carrie were texting and making plans to meet up for cocktails while Carrie was in Paris.
Season 2 premieres on June 22 with appropriate tagline,
New beginnings are in season.”
A third season of the series has not yet been confirmed.
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(Photos, YouTube; via NY Post)
