Kim Cattrall Will Phone in to the ‘Sex and the City’ Reboot
Photo: New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection
If there’s one thing And Just Like That … is great at, it’s delusion. At least that’s what I thought until recently, when it became clear that one of the Sex and the City reboot’s wildly optimistic ploys actually worked out — sort of. After a year of conspicuous and transparently hopeful hints at Samantha’s return, it seems that Kim Cattrall somehow agreed to make an appearance on the show’s second season, which airs later this month.
Variety reports that Cattrall will appear in season two in a scene that she filmed in March “without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series” or its showrunner, Michael Patrick King. According to sources, Samantha will speak with Carrie on the phone. Congratulations to us all! This is the most exciting thing to happen to phones since Tampongate.
Samantha making a phone call. Photo: New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection
The specter of Samantha loomed large throughout the first season of the reboot, which was green-lit without Cattrall due to decades of rumored beef between her and the rest of the cast. But that did not stop And Just Like That … from confidently writing Samantha into the script via iMessage and suggesting in the finale that Carrie was going to get drinks with her in London after dumping Big’s ashes in the Seine. Cattrall very tastefully made her opinions on the first season clear — which is to say that she did not like it at all.
And yet, sometime between Carrie buying a bird purse and Aidan taking up smoking, Cattrall appears to have made an about-face. Carrie and Samantha have graduated from texting to exchanging one whole phone call! Did they really meet up for drinks in Europe? Who knows, but more important, how on earth did the show finally lure Cattrall back in? Blackmail? An enormous paycheck? A lifetime supply of lube?
According to Variety, Cattrall’s return will briefly fill another gaping hole in the reboot: Legendary costume designer Patricia Field, who created the original show’s iconic style, reportedly dressed her for Samantha’s big phone call. (Field is not known to have any behind-the-scenes drama with the show but opted out of the first season of the reboot to focus on styling Emily in Paris.) For the duration of a single long-distance conversation, the fissures in the Sex and the City universe will be filled, and we will all feel whole once again. Get your cosmo glasses ready!
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