In case you haven’t heard, any chances of Sex and the City 3 happening are officially D-E-A-D dead.
…Or are they?
Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed the third film, which was supposed to go into production this fall, would not be happening, telling Extra over the weekend, “It’s over. We’re not doing it. I’m disappointed.”
Co-star Kristen Davis also confirmed the news on social media, saying the situation was “deeply frustrating.”
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Rumors quickly began swirling that the reason the third installment wasn’t happening was because Kim Cattrall refused to reprise her role as Samantha Jones unless Warner Brothers met her laundry list of unreasonable demands.
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Now, in a new interview with Piers Morgan, Cattrall explains exactly why she turned down the job. And it’s probably not why you think.
“This isn’t about more money, this is not about more scenes, it’s not about any of those things,” Cattrall says. “This is about a clear decision, an empowered decision in my life to end one chapter and start another. I’m 61. It’s now.”
Put simply: She didn’t want to do it. Seems like a good enough reason to us.
As for her fellow cast members slamming her for not wanting to make the third film, she adds: “And this is really where I take to task the people from Sex and the City and specifically Sarah Jessica Parker in that I think she could have been nicer. I really think she could have been nicer. I don’t know what her issue is. I never have.”
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But Cattrall wasn’t without some solutions, like, say, recasting the role.
“It’s a great part. I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,” she said. “Maybe they could make it an African American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones?”
And it looks like they already have a volunteer! Singer Sia wasted not time in offering her talents to producers:
Ok. @wbpictures can I just play Samantha and we give the people more sex and the city? We'll just pretend I had lots of plastic surgery!
— sia (@Sia) September 29, 2017
Hmmm. That could work.
What do you think? Do you see the resemblance?
rand503
A third piece of drivel? Because the first two just weren’t awful enough, I guess. Put a stake in the heart of this franchise. It was great, but now it’s just limping along for no reason, not even nostalgia.
Good for Kim to say the obvious — time to move on. And if they really can’t move on, then at least let someone else take the role.
jsmu
Parker was always horrendously bad. The talents of her co-stars, PARTICULARLY Cattrall, saved the original show from complete awfulness (Cattrall and Nixon are stage actresses, with technique–what a concept!!!) but the focus on Parker was always vomitous.
Jack Meoff
The only reason SJP and Davis are pissed is because they ant the money and they have nothing else going on. Just checked them out on IMDb and they have not had much work outside SATC. Haven’t heard from Nixon on the issue but she has had more going on in her career. Good on Kim for standing her ground.
jkthsnk
Imma guess that Parker’s issue is she played a whiny, unlikable narcissist; something she does a lot. Catrall’s character was much more popular.
jsmu
That’s called typecasting , and playing yourself. Parker, having no talent and no looks, has never been able to do anything else on screen.
whatsaywhat
Sarah Jessica should know better than to beat a dead horseface.
jsmu
Particularly her own. Or is that a dead bitchface? 😀
He BGB
What show was it where someone seeing sex and the city said it was about 3 prostitutes and their mother? Or something like that. Family Guy? The mother part made me lol.
AndThenTheresMax
Cousin IT wants to play Samantha Jones? Doesn’t that mean she’ll have to, oh I don’t know, peek out from behind her hair every once and a while?
ATLSWIMMAN8
Stop being mean, people. Please. Just quit with the bitchiness and the name-calling.
am_psi
Kim Cattrall was the best part of that show and SJP was the worst. Obviously the people in charge know that or otherwise they would just go ahead with the third movie and write Samantha out.
jsmu
So true! SJP is not only hideous, but talent-free–a true amurrikkkan ‘actress.’ 🙂
ShowMeGuy
Have Betty White play Samantha Jones’ mother who has moved in with Samantha and we keep missing Samantha because she just left to go meet some dude for sex or something.
OzJosh
Interesting that Cattrall seems to be everywhere – on stage and in a dozen different TV projects, playing a wide range of characters. Her career is going really well. Cynthia Nixon too. But has anyone heard anything of Davis lately? Or SJP since that dreary divorce “comedy”? Obviously, Cattrall has enough going on to not want to do another terrible Sex and the City movie just for the money.
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DCguy
Catrall is probably very “Been there Done that” about it. And the problem is, the last movie was pretty much unwatchable. The characters were always a little over the top, but in the last one they were ridiculous characterless. It was almost as if they brought in some writer who’d never seen the show and just gave them very short descriptions of the characters and nothing else.
If hey want to replace her, cast Sharon Stone, she isn’t doing much, or go with a less obvious choice and use Leila Rashon. But my guess is, this was Catralls final F-U to the other actresses.
Bradsman
She’s right. At 61, the life of someone like Samantha would not be so cute.