During a recent appearance on The View, Golden Globe winner Kim Cattrall opened up about her surprising return in the upcoming second season of Max’s Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That.
Cattrall confirmed it was the Head of HBO who invited her to reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones for a cameo in Season 2. She also revealed one condition for accepting the offer.
The condition? HBO had to enlist award-winning costume designer Patricia Field to dress her for the cameo. Field worked with Cattrall through all six seasons of Sex and the City, as well as its movie sequels. Recently, Field reunited with the Sex and the City alum in her newest Netflix series Glamourous.
“It’s very interesting to get a call from the head of HBO saying, ‘What can we do?’ And I went, ‘hmm…’” Cattrall said (via Deadline). “Let me get creative and one of those things was to get Pat Field back 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.”
Who’s Involved in Just Like That Season 2?
And Just Like That is written, directed, and executive produced by Michael Patrick King. Executive producers Parker, Davis, Nixon, Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky, and John Melfi. The series features the return of Sex and the City vets Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, who also serve as executive producers.
“The new chapter of the groundbreaking HBO series follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s,” reads the logline.
They are joined by series regulars Sara Ramírez, Sarita Choudhury, Nicole Ari Parker, Karen Pittman, Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Christopher Jackson, Niall Cunningham, Cathy Ang, and Alexa Swinton. Season 2 will include return of franchise alum John Corbett as he reprises his role as Aidan Shaw. Grammy winner Sam Smith will also have a guest appearance.
The original Sex and the City series was set and shot in New York City. Nominated for over 50 Emmy Awards and winning seven, the HBO series aired 94 episodes over six seasons. It premiered on June 6, 1998, and concluded on February 22, 2004. It was followed by a Sex and the City movie in 2008, which was followed by Sex and the City 2 in 2010; both were box office successes.