Here’s why Kim Cattral Won’t be in Sex and The City’s reboot

The reboot of Sex and the City is finally confirmed, but the return of the series will be without Samantha Jones. The character did not survive the old conflicts between actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall.

Carrie Bradshaw is making a comeback with her best friends, Charlotte and Miranda. But no Samantha on the poster of the new season of Sex & The City which arrives seventeen years after the broadcast of the final episode, February 22, 2004. The press release from the HBO channel did not give any details.

Time has passed - almost two decades - and between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall, it's a seventeen-year-old feud that led to the elimination of Samantha Jones in the reboot. Tensions that fans were able to follow in several episodes, like reality TV.

Salary disparities

The first highlight goes back to 2004 when the cast is found in full at the Emmy Awards. It's the end of the series, a movie is in talks. However, Kim Cattrall is apart, she refuses to sit down with her "friends". A distance that arouses curiosities and that the British-Canadian-American actress is careful not to stifle: "Are we best friends?" No. We are professional actresses. We have separate lives”. Two months later, she confided to British journalist Jonathan Ross great disparities in salaries in the casting, thus freezing any film project.

Finally, the deal was concluded four years later, in 2008, with a check and some tensions. But in the face of the media, everything is almost fine, in the best of all possible worlds. "Honestly, we're all friends, and I wish I could see Kim more often," says Sarah Jessica Parker, who also produces the film. Regrets or a barely subtle sting? In September 2009, New York Magazine reported that on the set of Sex and The City 2, the two women no longer spoke.

Change of tone

In January 2010, a turnaround. In the columns of the Daily Mail, Kim Cattrall sings the praises of Sarah Jessica Parker. "I think Sarah is right, people don't want to believe we get along. They are too invested in this idea of ​​two strong, accomplished women fighting. This offers juicy gossip. There wouldn't be much to write about being friends. " Fans can hardly believe it, would like it anyway, but the reality is that the time has come to promote Sex and The City 2, a film that is struggling to be successful.

The sequel ends up convincing the skeptics: the quarrels are now spreading publicly. The project of a Sex and The City 3 will be nothing but wishful thinking ... On a TV set in 2017, Kim Cattrall looks back on her Sex and The City years and evokes "a toxic relationship" with her partner, Sarah Jessica Parker, with whom she has "never been friends".

Condolences gone wrong

The point of no return was in 2018, on Instagram. It is a message of condolences that sets fire to the powder. It is posted by Sarah Jessica Parker in the comments of a post by Kim Cattrall reporting on the death of her brother. Laconic words that did not have the expected effect. "My mother asked me 'when is this hypocrite Sarah Jessica Parker going to leave you alone?' The fact that you constantly seek to contact me is a painful reminder of your cruelty to me, once but also today. Let me make it clear (if it hasn't already been). You are not my family. You are not my friend. I am writing to you one last time to ask you not to exploit this tragedy for your image of a nice girl” Kim Cattrall then answered. The next thing she did? Turning the page of Sex and the City for good.