Candace Bushnell Reacts To Kim Cattrall’s ‘Sex And The City’ Franchise Return

Kim Cattrall’s much-buzzed-about “And Simply Like That” cameo isn’t anticipated to air till August, however writer Candace Bushnell is already planning to tune in.

Bushnell ― who wrote the unique “Intercourse and the Metropolis” column for the New York Observer, which grew to become the 1996 guide anthology on which the unique HBO collection was based mostly ― praised Cattrall’s shock determination to look on “And Simply Like That,” Max’s revival collection, in a pair of interviews commemorating the twenty fifth anniversary of the franchise this week.

“After I heard the information I used to be pleased and stunned,” Bushnell instructed the New York Put up’s Web page Six on Tuesday. “The followers love Kim and I feel it is going to be nice for the present. There was a chunk lacking. She was a serious a part of that girlfriend circle.”

She went on to notice: “I feel shall be an ideal season. I’m pleased that Kim goes to go on there. I feel it’s in all probability the best factor for the present. Lots of people miss Samantha.”

Cattrall surprised followers final week by confirming she’ll reprise her position as sex-positive PR maven Samantha Jones on the Season 2 finale of “And Simply Like That.”

The actor’s portrayal of Samantha on all six seasons of “Intercourse and the Metropolis” and its two function movies made her a collection favourite. After the discharge of the second film, nonetheless, she repeatedly vowed by no means to return to the franchise amid studies of a behind-the-scenes feud with co-star Sarah Jessica Parker.

Although longtime “SATC” viewers could also be thrilled by Cattrall’s return, her “And Simply Like That” look shall be restricted ― for now, anyway ― to a single scene that’s believed to happen in a city automotive. The scene was reportedly filmed in a New York parking storage with out the presence of “And Simply Like That” showrunner Michael Patrick King or Cattrall’s former co-stars Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Parker.

Bushnell, for her half, seems to stay on good phrases with Cattrall. The writer joined writer-producer Darren Star and clothier Patricia Subject, each of whom labored on “Intercourse and the Metropolis” however haven’t been concerned with “And Simply Like That,” at Selection’s Energy of Ladies occasion final 12 months, the place Cattrall was honored.

Chatting with Selection on Tuesday, Bushnell acknowledged that Cattrall’s return was very a lot “a enterprise determination, as these items at all times are.” Nonetheless, she stays excited, including: “Her character represented quite a lot of freedom and permission for ladies.”

Elsewhere in her Web page Six chat, Bushnell stated she was additionally delighted by the return of actor John Corbett, who’s reprising his position as Aidan Shaw, the previous fiancé of Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw. By all accounts, Corbett’s character arc on the collection shall be significantly extra substantial than Cattrall’s, and his look was teased within the present’s newest trailer.

“It’s so actual to me,” Bushnell stated. “It’s like an ex-boyfriend might come again into your life. It’s that the one who received away, so I feel that’s attention-grabbing.”