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Kim Cattrallis finally speaking on her highly-anticipatedAnd Just Like That…cameo.
“It’s very interesting to get a call from the head of HBO saying, ‘What can we do?’ and I went, ‘Hmm, Let me get creative,' ” Cattrall shared during her appearance onThe ViewWednesday.
“And one of those things was to getPat Fieldback because I just thought that if I’m going to come back, I gotta come back with that Samantha style. I gotta push it. And we did,” she revealed.
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According toVariety, Cattrall filmed the cameo on March 22 in New York City. The outlet also reported that Cattrall did her scene “without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series,” including Parker,Cynthia NixonandKristin Davis, nor did she reportedly interact with series creatorMichael Patrick King.
In the cameo inAJLT’s season 2 finale, Cattrall’s character will reportedly speak to Carrie on the phone.
Parker, who hasshut down rumorsof a feud between herself and Cattrall, addressed the cameo in an interview withSunrise.
“It was an idea that we had that was really about our 25 years, and celebrating that,” Parker, 58, shared. “She had surfaced in the first season, but this [is] simply taking those texts and it puts a face with it. A gorgeous face, that we love, and that the audience has loved. It’s just a quick pop, it’s just a phone call. And it’s very much familiar.”
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King also spoke with PEOPLE earlier this month about Cattrall’s surprise cameo and how he couldn’t believe the news.
However, the showrunner also told PEOPLE that Cattrall’s character hadalways existedin theAnd Just Like That…universe in his mind.
“I have always had Samantha Jones inAnd Just Like That…,” he shared. “In my consciousness and in my writing, in all of her writing, she’s always been in London and texting. I was like, ‘Samantha lives, so let’s keep her alive for me, the writer, for Carrie, for Miranda, for Charlotte and for the audience.’"
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And Just Like That…season 2 is streaming now on Max.
source: people.com
