Fans who were excited to learn about Kim Cattrall’s cameo in the Season 2 finale of And Just Like That… shouldn’t hold their breath expecting her to return for a larger role in a potential third season.
Last month it was reported that Cattrall will reprise her role as Samantha Jones with a cameo in the Season 2 finale, after it was explained in the series premiere that Samantha had moved to London.
This comes years after Cattrall had said in 2016 that she was done playing Samantha after she didn’t approve of the script for a proposed third Sex and the City movie.
When And Just Like That… came together, it happened without her co-stars or creator Michael Patrick King even approaching Cattrall to return, though after HBO’s Casey Bloys approached her to return, she ultimately said yes.
While fans won’t get to see the cameo until the Season 2 finale in August, Nixon revealed on Thursday’s episode of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live that fans won’t likely see Cattrall return in future seasons if the HBO streaming service Max should order them.
Kim’s cameo: Fans who were excited to learn about Kim Cattrall’s cameo in the Season 2 finale of And Just Like That… shouldn’t hold their breath expecting her to return for a larger role in a potential third season
Cynthia: While fans won’t get to see the cameo until the Season 2 finale in August, Nixon revealed on Thursday’s episode of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live that fans won’t likely see Cattrall return in future seasons if the HBO streaming service Max should order them
Nixon was asked by a fan who wrote into WWHL, ‘Cynthia, with Kim making a small cameo this season, what you think the odds are of her appearing in a larger role in the third season?’
‘I think very, very small. It was a cameo, I think it was a special treat for the 25th anniversary,’ Nixon said.
She added, ‘we tried so hard to keep it quiet. We’re really sorry it got out. It would have been such a fun thing if you are watching the episode and she just popped up.
The original report from Variety revealed Cattrall shot her one scene in New York City on March 22, and didn’t have any interactions with the cast of King.
Towards the end of the first season, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw reaches out to Cattrall’s Jones via text, and in the Season 1 finale they make plans to reconcile in person.
Cattrall recently appeared on The View, where she revealed the conditions she had for her return.
‘It’s very interesting to get a call from the head of HBO saying, “What can we do?” And I went, “Hmm…,” Cattrall said.
‘Let me get creative and one of those things was to get (costume designer) Pat Field back because I just thought that if I’m going to come back I gotta come back with that Samantha style, I gotta push it and we did,’ she added.
Odds: Nixon was asked by a fan who wrote into WWHL, ‘Cynthia, with Kim making a small cameo this season, what you think the odds are of her appearing in a larger role in the third season?’
Special treat: ‘I think very, very small. It was a cameo, I think it was a special treat for the 25th anniversary,’ Nixon said
Tried: She added, ‘we tried so hard to keep it quiet. We’re really sorry it got out. It would have been such a fun thing if you are watching the episode and she just popped up
Report: The original report from Variety revealed Cattrall shot her one scene in New York City on March 22, and didn’t have any interactions with the cast of King
Confirmed: Cattrall recently appeared on The View, where she revealed the conditions she had for her return
Sarah Jessica Parker also spoke to Daily Mail earlier this month about the highly-anticipated cameo.
‘We’ve been really thoughtful about the ways in which we’ve, you know, approached characters that hadn’t been around, the ways we have invited actors back and it’s been, you know, really fun and exciting and certainly nostalgic, but I think more than that, it’s been a lot of joy.’
Cohen also recalled Nixon’s 2018 campaign for governor of New York, wondering if she’d ever consider running for mayor of New York City.
‘No, fraid not. But I think we have to run somebody against the current mayor. Not me, but somebody,’ she diplomatically said.
She also opened up about first reading for the Carrie Bradshaw role for the original Sex and the City series.
‘I mean, you know, when I first read the script, they asked me to read for Carrie. And they were, like, yeah, not so much,’ she said.
‘But then I thought there was a bunch of women in there, because they also used to be the stories that Carrie would follow. You know what I mean?’ Nixon added.
‘There has got to be a woman in there I can play, so then I came back and read for Miranda,’ she said.
Sarah spoke: Sarah Jessica Parker also spoke to Daily Mail earlier this month about the highly-anticipated cameo
Consider: Cohen also recalled Nixon’s 2018 campaign for governor of New York, wondering if she’d ever consider running for mayor of New York City
First reading: She also opened up about first reading for the Carrie Bradshaw role for the original Sex and the City series
When asked about a story line from the original show that was cut and she wished was left in, Nixon said there was a scene with an early boyfriend she wish stayed.
‘You know, Miranda dated a really hot detective. She was really intimidated and thought she was out of his league. So she got wildly drunk. They did not cut that part, but they cut the scene where she got really drunk and threw up on him,’ Nixon said.
When asked which of Carrie’s boyfriends were her favorite, she said, ‘Well, I love Aidan, but I also, I really love Berger too.’
New episodes of And Just Like That… debut on the Max streaming service on Thursdays at 12 AM.
