And just like that… the drama between former Sex And The City co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall gets a little thornier. But is it all just a bunch of hocus pocus?
The actors’ long-standing beef—the reason Samantha Jones is MIA from SATC sequel series And Just Like That…—was in the headlines again this week after Parker guested on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast to speak her piece about all the gossip around her fizzled friendship with Cattrall.
Downplaying what’s been depicted by the media as a “catfight,” Parker was quick to point out she’s not made any public comments disparaging Cattrall, saying, “I’ve never uttered fighting words in my life about anybody that I’ve worked with ever. There is not a ‘fight’ going on. There has been no public dispute or spat or conversations or allegations made by me or anybody on my behalf. I wouldn’t do it. That is not the way I would have it.”
But then something happened that no one saw coming: The great Kathy Najimy weighed in. Well, sort of.
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Sending love to my brilliant authentic talented beautiful hilarious @kimcatrall1 today..miss you
— Kathy Najimy (@kathynajimy) June 2, 2022
@KimCattrall Sending you alll the love and support in the WORLD today!! one of the best, most authentic humans in the 'business' and maybe the world! dinner soooon my love!
— Kathy Najimy (@kathynajimy) June 2, 2022
On one hand, the tweets read as nothing more than one beloved actor singing the praises of one of her peers. But the timing of it all is interesting, and it has fans wondering if this was no coincidence. Is Najimy choosing sides, subtly shading her very own (Sanderson) sister?
She and Parker go way back, of course, starring in every millennial’s favorite Halloween tradition, Hocus Pocus, as Mary and Sarah Sanderson, respectively. And soon the two will be reunited on screen—along with Bette Midler—in the long-awaited Hocus Pocus 2, set to debut on Disney+ this fall. Interestingly, the very next thing in Najimy’s Twitter feed is a retweet of the Hocus Pocus 2 announcement.
They’re already running amok, amok, amok! 🕯 @BetteMidler, @SJP, and @KathyNajimy are in production on #HocusPocus2, coming Fall 2022 on #DisneyPlus. #DisneyPlusDay pic.twitter.com/deTH8HxPjW
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) November 12, 2021
Our read of it is that Najimy—a gay icon and, by all accounts, a lovely human—is a bit of a “Switzerland” in this situation, trying to stay neutral by showing support for both actors. Which we’re happy to see! We’re still feeling the heartache over the wedge between Carrie Bradshaw and Samantha Jones (brunch will never be the same), so the last thing we want is a family feud among the Sanderson witches.
But this isn’t the first time the Sex And The City drama has bubbled over into the world of Hocus Pocus, leading fans to cry “toil and trouble”: Earlier this year, Cattrall—who famously doesn’t “want to be in a situation for even an hour where I’m not enjoying myself”—posted a selfie on Instagram with Najimy, sharing that the two were catching up on “all the gossip.” Very interesting.
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In any event, as much as it pains us to say, it doesn’t look like Parker and Cattrall will be burying the hatchet any time soon. And with Najimy between them, well, we better brace ourselves for a fascinating Hocus Pocus 2 press tour!
Here’s what Twitter has to say about the latest wrinkle in the SATC stars’ spat…
Not Kathy Najimy joining in on the SJP / KC feud!!! The Hocus Pocus 2 press tour’s about to be awkwardddd
— Green Slime 1999 (@GreenSlime1999) June 2, 2022
Kathy Najimy with that silent shade. I love to see it. https://t.co/dGWjATq0zW
— Dutch Hulen (@dutchhulen) June 3, 2022
Gagging her a bit pic.twitter.com/RZb53lwnjX
— Noah Cassiel (@NCassiel) June 3, 2022
Ooooo I would have loved to be a fly on the wall. She also doesn’t follow SJP on IG but is following Kim. 👀🪰
— Tyler Herman (@TylerHerman13) June 2, 2022
SJP is making Kim Cattrall live rent free in her head in a one sided feud and thank GAWD Kathy Najimy is like “I can have my own friends, tyvm.”👀👀👀https://t.co/8IQ4X5qbjR pic.twitter.com/H8VUKZoomy
— Miss Frizzle’s Bus (@SceneByAshlix) June 3, 2022
Mostlikelytobedownvoted
A horse is a horse of course of course…
Winsocki
Horses? Are you referring to Camilla Parker Bowlegged, I’m sure.
LunaSol2010
Bottom line. Slow news day. JP and KC.
What if at 65 years old … and beautiful! … Kim’s not interested in more Sex and the City?
She’s accomplished Broadway actor, featured as mom in Queer As Folk which did more for the actress Sharon Gleason, first time around than imaginable!
Kim is an author, playwright, actor in London West End and New York. She values her time!
I stopped doing Fiddler on the Roof after the 7th year and 3rd production. If I am not having fun, life is too short to chase $ vs soul satisfying work!
And let’s get real, women have bitter catfights and men have differences of opinion? What trashy standards we hold women to but disallow their humanity to be themselves.
No trash to poor results bad box office, but sex in the city 3 (film) offer KC $6 million when JP was offered $20 million.
PAY Disparity is not right at any level. Equality is about salary and equal points on sales added to a contract for all actors; male and female.
I say all news is biased.
All news pits women against women.
All news focuses on women’s age, weight and not on merit artistically, experience and creativity, good mental health and healthy differences of professional opinions and needs.
“Women are seen and said to be aggressive, a bitch or is an impossible perfectionist… but a man just has firm ideas and strong standards.”
Quote Barbra Streisand
Take it from the only artist ever to have EGOT, Barbra. A true Superstar.
As hot as anyone, hit over 6 decades, Oscar winning composer, actor, director, writer, foundation inception, gives tens of millions to charity, sings, acts, and tours internationally. Shes seen it all. I doubt she see this story as anything but chwap and nasty tabloid need to pit women against each other to sell gossip.
They rarely if ever do that with men! Fact.
As Princess Margaret said, ‘Well the tabloids have their good princess so I assume it’s my role to be the bad princess!” 1952.
Women have been trashed and underestimated since time immemorium!
We dish 51% of the population because it sells trashy tabloids and gossipy TV, and makes billionaires from your time and money to Murdock News Outlets
.
It makes big money. Very very rich! Think about it! We contribure to it just reading this stupid opinion piece which now brings in a third party Kathy … to be inferred to trash SJP. Never happened. Not professional or professional. Just sees more click bait.
No JP comment by Kathy. The facts are we are led like sheep to the alter until we stop wanting to give away your autonomy. Think for yourself and not with your need for others to think for you.
148jules
Streisand does NOT have official EGOT status. In fact there at 16 people who do.
Streisand received a Special Tony Award which doesn’t count.
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Looking forward to Hocus Pocus 2
cuteguy
Kim is the queen and we could see SJP and especially Michael Patrick King at how badly they treated Kim
Caine
No, she really is not and the only place she was treated badly was in her own head. There is something wrong with someone who attacks someone else for offering up a condolence.
And shame on queerty for perpetuating this nonsense and shame on us for falling for it.
Polaro
I’d like to be so mistreated as to be offered $6,000,000 to do a movie.
cuteguy
@Caine. Why didn’t SJP discreetly DM her after her brother tragically died? Bc SJP only cared about her image and tried exploiting Kim when she was grieving. Good for Kim for calling out SJP and her insensitivity
chefmark
I think you meant to characterize Najimy as SWITZERLAND (famously neutral country), not Sweden (who don’t feed visiting children)
jcool
that was funny
bachy
Kim Cattrall is a consummate professional. Her performance as Samantha was brilliant– some might say iconic. She attended all the premieres, all the events, all the press junkets, played the game, supported the enterprise and delivered all the appropriate marketing-speak on cue from 1998 though 2004 when SATC II was released.
For someone like that to break ranks and use her platform to start badmouthing to the media, SOMETHING LEGITIMATELY SERIOUS must have happened. That’s all I’m sayin’.
Polaro
Or she went nuts. I think something is wrong with Kim.
bachy
@Polaro: that’s always a possibility. But I don’t recall ever seeing Kim involved in reports of DUIs, late-nite hard partying, substance abuse, hospitalizations, disastrous marriages, sketchy love affairs, stays in rehab… or even rumors of irresponsibility on set. She never came across as having “lost control” like say, Lindsay Lohan, or deeply troubled like Ben Affleck.
I contend that something legitimately serious happened between her and SJP and possibly MPK that led her to feel so completely betrayed that she jettisoned the press junket corporate-speak and felt compelled to let people know what she really felt about the arena. And I don’t think she’s done, either.
cuteguy
Kim is 65 Yrs old and grew tired of being abused by the likes of Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker. SJP claims to be a good girl but she won’t shut up about Kim. What they wanted to make Samantha do in SATC 3 was deplorable and Kim bad enough. Good for her!!
man5996853
If a brilliant performance = an over-acted and one-note performance, I would agree. Samantha was a paper-thin a character as Charlotte and Kim, at her best, is a b-level actress.
Polaro
Mann, I disagree and think Kim was brilliant in SAT. She was d-list before SAT. I find it sad she misses the fact SAT made her career, which was faltering for decades. I mean what were her previous roles? A Vulcan and a mannequin? SAT made her a star people recognize. I wish her well, but I think she’s been vindictive and dishonest.
RyanMBecker
I don’t understand this egomaniacal celebrity Twitter culture. If Najimy wants to express her love for Cattrall or setup dinner plans, why not do it in email? Who needs a public announcement? It’s not like Cattrall has just won an award or had a baby.
I don’t know much about Najimy but if that is what gays consider an icon then I’d suggest you reexamine your priorities.
Creamsicle
Cattrall made the right choice. “And Just Like That” seems to be an underwhelming flop of a series from what little I’ve seen. SATC was a smash success at a time when TV writing didn’t need to be particularly good and before TV writing was redefined by Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and other shows with massive, genre defining success.
SATC was a hit in the late 1990s and early aughts. Back when the brief softcore sex scenes were titillating and grown adults were buying porn DVDs and stashing them in closets and the back of dressers. Now with seemingly endless streaming hardcore porn options available in most people’s pockets with a couple keystrokes, I can see why this revival show has been struggling to stay relevant.
SATC was good for its time, but it ended in 2003 or 2004. A lot has changed since then. Not just in New York, but across the world. Carrie owned her own apartment while working for a print newspaper writing a weekly column! I don’t think you get any more unrealistic and anachronistic than that.
Polaro
Isn’t a flop and has been renewed. People watched it. Was it perfect? No.
MynameisSid
Oh and Sharon Gless might be like…. “Who”?