Gird your Manolos: The Sex and the City reboot is almost here.
Some of it has to do with the fact that Cattrall just doesn’t want to play Samantha anymore, whereas all her other former co-stars seem to be thrilled at the idea of revisiting this franchise over and over again until we die.
This saga dates all the way back to 1999, the beginning of three decades of drama between Cattrall and SJP and reportedly refused to sit with Cattrall at lunch.
When asked about the delays, Cattrall told Jonathan Ross she felt it was time to “move on” once her co-stars “didn’t seem keen” on letting her “participate in the financial windfall of Sex and the City.” The Telegraph claimed Cattrall “openly refused to participate unless she was paid more,” but I guess an agreement was eventually reached because the movie started filming in 2008.
Whatever state their friendship or non-friendship was in, Cattrall and SJP managed to work together on the second SATC movie, which we thank God for because it brought us the wildly problematic line “Lawrence of my labia.” I think we can all agree this movie was generally not the best idea even by the poorly aging standards of the original show.
She mentioned in 2016 it would be “a challenge to do a third installment” of SATC — an opinion Cynthia Nixon had actually expressed more strongly back in 2012, but no one seemed to remember that.
Behind the scenes, we found out, Cattrall was being presented with a fully written script for a third movie, which reportedly revolved around Carrie processing Big’s death and Samantha receiving dick pics from Miranda’s teenage son.
Here’s where things really imploded.
On Twitter, Cattrall repeated her claim that she just didn’t want to play Samantha again and iconically retweeted Perez Hilton’s suggestion the show kill her character off.
The following year, SJP managed to bring the Me Too movement into all this, claiming that women who spoke out against sexual assault “emboldened” her to speak her truth about … Kim Cattrall leaving Sex and the City.
Many other old cast members appear to be involved: Big, Steve, Anthony, and Charlotte’s husband, Harry, all show up in the trailer, and guest stars like Julie Halston and Bridget Moynahan are back.
One of the few people not rejoining the crew is the show’s legendary original costume designer, Patricia Field, who is focusing on Emily in Paris instead.
And where is Samantha Jones, you ask? Her absence is reportedly being explained by the fact that she just … drifted apart from the other girls.
Speaking of: The same sources expect this show to go on for “many years,” and though show producer Michael Patrick King agreed, no further seasons have been officially green-lit.