Cynthia Nixon Hints ‘Sex and the City’ Cast Was ‘Walking Around on Eggshells’ Amid Kim Cattrall Drama
16.06.2023 - 16:31
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Cynthia Nixon detailed the ways making And Just Like That differs from filming Sex and the City‘s original run — and hinted that Kim Cattrall‘s absence has changed things for the better.
“This is not something that we speak about, really,” the Emmy winner, 57, told Vanity Fair on Thursday, June 15, when asked whether “the dynamic” was different on AJLT without Cattrall, 66. “Yes, it did feel very different. It felt very different also because we have these new amazing characters, and we’re older and our fictional children are now largely grown. Many things felt different.”
The former gubernatorial candidate didn’t mention her former costar by name, but she implied that the cast is happier now because they’re all excited to be part of the revival series.
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“The main thing that felt so great was that everybody who was there really wanted to be there. That’s just the bottom line,” Nixon explained. “We all love each other, we love our show, we wanted to do more of it. And we all wanted to be there. So that makes an enormous difference, that you’re not walking around on eggshells with someone who’s unhappy for reasons that are hard to even understand what they are.”
Cattrall, who played PR expert Samantha Jones throughout SATC‘s original run and in the two movies, did not return for AJLT, which premiered in December 2021. She also declined to participate in a third SATC movie.
Both Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Carrie Bradshaw, have said that the Mannequin actress was never asked to reprise her role for AJLT.
“We did not ask her to be part of this because she made it clear that that wasn’t something she wanted to pursue, and it no longer felt comfortable for us,