On the big screen, she’s starring with Robert De Niro in the Lionsgate comedy “About My Father.” But she says that she still feels Samantha’s presence, and she’s appreciative that fans miss the character and mourn her absence.īack when “Sex and the City” premiered on HBO in 1998, Samantha was something that TV hadn’t seen before: a financially empowered heroine who proudly refused to strive for marriage or children and relished sex as a man would.
series (which had its own 2000 American offshoot), she’s Brenda, an affluent New Orleans grandmother. And on Peacock’s “Queer as Folk,” a reboot of the groundbreaking 1999 U.K. On Hulu’s “How I Met Your Father,” she’s the future Sophie (played by Hilary Duff in flashbacks), who sips a glass of wine as she narrates the story of meeting her great love. This year, Cattrall’s happily moved on with two new TV projects. “I also didn’t want to compromise what the show was to me.
“It’s a great wisdom to know when enough is enough,” Cattrall says. In a wide-ranging interview for Variety’s Power of Women issue, the 65-year-old actor, who says she hasn’t watched “And Just Like That …,” shared her thoughts on why exactly she walked away from one of TV’s biggest phenomena. Since the premiere of “And Just Like That …,” Cattrall hasn’t talked about “Sex and the City” in public, not even to respond to rumors that she could return as Samantha. To deal with the past, a Cattrall-less “And Just Like That …” invented a subplot that depicted the dissolution of Carrie and Samantha’s friendship off screen, and Samantha - who’d apparently abandoned New York for London - was reincarnated in the form of text messages to Carrie, written in her character’s voice.Īt least, that’s one side of the story. Big’s sudden death and Carrie’s grieving process - provided the seeds of inspiration for “And Just Like That …” But not everything made it into the show: In the film that didn’t happen, Samantha’s storyline reportedly revolved around her receiving unwanted “dick pics” from Brady, Miranda’s 14-year-old son.Īnd so, after a public breakup, the infamous quartet of “Sex and the City” became a triumvirate, with some new friends. Chunks of that story - which centered on Mr. Of course, Cattrall had made it abundantly clear in interviews that she was done playing Samantha, and in 2017 she turned down a script for the third “Sex and the City” movie.