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When it turned out that Kim Cattrall will not appear in the first season of “And just like that…”, the continuation of “Sex and the City”, viewers did not hide their disappointment. Samantha Jones was for many people the most important character on the show. Although everyone expected the actress to stick to her 2016 resolution, it turned out that she was not even offered to join the cast.
“We didn’t ask her to be part of the project because she made it clear that she didn’t want to be involved. Inviting Kim didn’t even cross our minds. It’s not about condemning her, it’s about learning something. says she doesn’t want to be somewhere or play someone or be in a certain place, the correct reaction seems to be: “Okay, we understand,” Sarah Jessica Parker later told The Hollywood Reporter. In 2023, Kim Cattrall will appear in one of the episodes of the series What has changed?
Kim Cattrall set a condition for HBO
Under the pressure of fans, the head of HBO and HBO Max – Casey Bloys, persuaded Kim Cattrall to return to the series. The actress does not hide that she was impressed. Recently, she gave an interview to “The View” and confessed that it was he who made her change her mind and agree to appear again with her series friends. However, she set a condition: HBO must hire Patricia Field to work with her, who in the past selected Samantha’s stylizations.
“It’s very interesting to get a call from the head of HBO asking, ‘What can we do?’ And I was like, ‘Let me see.’ One of those things was bringing back Pat Field. I thought if I was going to come back, I had to come back. Samantha style, I have to push it through and we did it,” she said.
Kim Cattrall sacrificed everything for Samantha Jones
When Kim Cattrall started working on the set of “Sex and the City” in 1998, she married for the third time. Sound designer and film score composer Mark Levinson seemed like the perfect partner for her. Together, they even wrote the book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm. Years later, Cattrall admitted that their relationship fell apart because of the show. “The show cost me my marriage because I wasn’t really at home. I hardly spent any time with my husband who became lonely, bitter and started to compete with my job. It was really hard. In fact, I was spending more time with my family than my real family,” she said.
The actress spent 18-19 hours on the set. She devoted her whole life to her career. Although both she and her husband wanted a child and thought about IVF, she had to make a choice. With her work schedule, regular clinic visits and adherence to medical advice were out of the question.
“If we were on it [in vitro — red.] If they decided, I would become a bit of a medical experiment. My partner and I would need time to have intercourse at specific times and days. There was no such option. Besides, I would not be able to take on such a challenge in terms of health, emotions, physical fitness and even mental state. Not when I spent 19 hours. on the set “- she later emphasized. Ultimately, she decided not to have children. With the end of the series in 2004, the actress’s marriage ended.
Later, Cattrall starred in two more feature films, which were a continuation of the cult series. However, in 2016, when she was asked to star in the third part, she declined. She also released an official statement saying goodbye to the role of Samantha Jones forever. The reason was allegedly the inequality in earnings between her and Sarah Jessica Parker and the conflict between the actresses.
Source: Gazeta
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