Sex and the City ran for six strong years from 1998-2004.
Its massive popularity was then leveraged into two mostly disappointing films, 2008’s Sex and the City and 2010’s Sex and the City 2.
But Sarah Jessica Parker, the franchise’s star, is still in a “period of mourning” over the fact that Kim Cattrall, at age 61, isn’t interested in reprising the role of Samantha for a third film that is–let’s be frank–likely to be just as bad as the previous two.
During a recent interview, Ellen Degeneres asked Parker a question that seems like it would have an obvious answer: “But you can still do [a third film] without [Cattrall], right?”
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Apparently, it’s not that simple.
“I think there’s a period of grief; a mourning process,” Parker explained.
But after Parker sits shiva for the notion of the original foursome returning for another installment of SATC, she has an idea for who could replace Cattrall as Samantha, since it’s just not SATC without Samantha:
“And then perhaps we’ll be able to consider, say, for instance, you playing Samantha.”
Ellen is in.
“That’s so me,” she said. “That’s who I identify with on that show! That is me – I am a sexual beast!”
Running with the joke all the way to the end zone, Ellen added: “This is a facade. When you meet me as a real person out in the world, this is a facade. This is my talk show persona!”
So wait, why can’t they just do a Samantha-less Sex and the City again?
You can watch the interview, which spends an awful lot of time focused on Parker’s cat before getting to the SATC bits, below:
Ummmm Yeah
They can’t do it without her because she was the most interesting character. No one is going to pay to see Carrie dressing weird, Charlotte moping and whining, Miranda freaking out and screaming or the little gay poodles being drama queens.
am_psi
They’d be better off replacing Sara Jessica Parker .
Knight
Hah! Or replacing the whole concept with 4 gay men (like it was supposed to be?)
Zambos271
Yes Knight!! I would pay to go and see that.
Or save their coins and invest in a Noah’s Arc movie.
Knight
Zamb shut UP! i LOVED Noah’s Arc!!! Was one of the first gay shows I ever saw.
Zambos271
Noah’s Arc was awesome. I wish Logo or Netflix would reboot it.
I’m glad you’re a fan, too!!
pengwinofdoom
You know they did make a Noah’s Arc movie, right? And it was pretty bad, although still entertainting. Honestly, Noah’s Arc reminds me of Sex and the City, in that I couldn’t care less about the main character or their men.
throwslikeagirl
My idea– and I’m serious– Samantha realizes in mid-life that she’s transgendered and undoes reassignment surgery. Cast it with a trans-man. Heck, he can id as gay. Samantha has lived her life as a gay man anyway, if you think about it.
Ummmm Yeah
She was already a lesbian and decided she isn’t into women and she isn’t going to do anyone any good just because she got hairy. They can’t make a dick.
OzJosh
The entire series was more about gay men in New York than it ever was about women. Darren Starr, who conceived the series, would barely have been able to distinguish a real woman from a drag queen.
Brian
Samantha hit mid-life 20 years ago. And since there wasn’t a single iota of anything to ever even hint at Samantha questioning her gender, that plotline would be a disaster, obviously shoehorned in just to replace an actress and jump on the trendy trans bandwagon. They would be better off just killing her off. Which would also completely change the dynamic and ruin the movie.
DCguy
The second movie has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 16%.
Yeah, people are really screaming for more of that. Let me guess the plot…
Carrie gets neurotic, Charlotte gets weepy, Miranda still hasn’t realized the reason she keeps having problems in her marriage and constantly belittles her husband is because she is a closet case, and Kim Cattrell smiles off in her vacation home because she wasn’t stupid enough to be involved in whatever abortion of a movie Part 3 would turn out to be.
Knight
DCTroll ah, posting under the “troll” name today, right? What happened to all your other screen names? Get banned already?
DCguy
Hey Knight,
If you’re trying to pretend you aren’t just another of Mo Bros troll screenames, probably not the best idea to use the exact same wording he did when trying to defend against troll accusations.
But nice try.
CanadianGuy62
I am so glad to read people’s comments saying how bad the movies were (especially the second one). My friends claimed to have loved SATC2 as we exited the theatre, and I genuinely wondered what I missed. Apparently, I missed nothing.
Caine
She basically said the same thing to Stephen Colbert last week. @CanadianGuy62 – I think most of it is nostalgia. If you are a fan of the show. I loved the show and was very disappointed in both movies. That said, I would still go see a 3rd!!!
johnkcopley
SATC was Samantha; dropping Samantha would be like doing Superman without superman! SJP needs to find another project if she can.
bigrawtop
I liked both movies. I think they had individual messages that some people just didn’t get.
batesmotel
It wouldn’t work. Whenever you say Sex and the City to anybody their immediate response is “Samantha.” They’d have to find a way to convince Kim Cattrall.
Knight
I never understood the attraction of “3 Whores and their Mother” (aka SATC). The jokes are bad, the situations contrived, the examples are VERY poor and none of the protagonists has any redeeming qualities other than they are ultra-liberal at heart and live in NYC. Ah…I guess I just answered my own question there.
Zambos271
I can’t do another episode of Carrie Bradshaw’s narcissism. I was so pissed in the second one when Miranda and Charlotte were in an intimate conversation about motherhood and their relationships when all of a sudden they had to stop what they were doing to tend to Carrie’s latest problem
DuMaurier
Just do what Two and a Half Men did with Charlie. Open with Samantha’s funeral and make everything as gross and insulting as possible (starting with her humiliating/sexual death recap) It’ll enrage all the true fans, but that’s just a bonus.
Jack Meoff
Kim has done the smart thing here. If they persist with a 3rd film these women will just embarrass themselves further. It’s just about money at this stage.
Jaxton
Sarah Jessica Parker still has that over-long hair that helps to disguise her face.
michaelmt1009
How about scraping the whole idea of S&TC movie and do a Queer as Folk Movie.
DCguy
This right here, a Queer as Folk movie, another Noah’s Arc movie, hell do a Real O’Neils movie, whatever.
Zambos271
I’m on board for either Queer As Folk or Noah’s Arc.
inbama
The only reason to see that movie was Gilles Marini’s penis.
He BGB
That scatterbrained interview made me so nervous.
demetreus
Say Samantha moved away to be with Rikard and only mention her through phone convos.
Bring back Jennifer Hudson’s character to complete the 4 ladies and you have an additional story-line and new perspective SATC.
You’re welcome.
jd.cali
Just let the show go already. It’s not funny anymore. It’s been 20 years already… The cast is too mature to keep playing sexynsingle girls in the city. Two really bad movies already proved that. Let it go.