Kim Cattrall Says She’s Not Returning for ‘And Just Like That’ Season 3 Despite Rumors

Kim Cattrall answered fans’ prayers erstwhile she made her debut connected And Just Like That during play 2, but nan character revealed that Samantha Jones won’t beryllium backmost for nan upcoming season.

The Sex and nan City alum, 67, responded to a erstwhile report by Life & Style that a instrumentality reshared via X connected Sunday, July 21, writing, “Aw that’s truthful benignant but I’m not.”

Earlier this period a root exclusively told Life & Style that it was “assumed that they’ve done a woody pinch Kim and they’re conscionable waiting for nan correct clip to denote it.”

“The connection is that she’ll get to do each her scenes successful London. They’ll beryllium bending complete backwards to salary her an absolute fortune, and it’s each connected her position because she’s truthful cardinal to nan franchise,” nan insider explained. “Everyone, including Sarah [Jessica Parker], has had to judge that this was necessary. However, nan rivals and deficiency of forgiveness is still location arsenic acold arsenic Kim’s concerned. She doesn’t do clone friendships, she’s not going to beryllium astir and dress to beryllium champion friends pinch Sarah, moreover if she does return nan paycheck.”

HBO Max announced Kim’s play 2 AJLT cameo connected May 31, 2023, and she confirmed nan news nan pursuing time during nan kickoff of Pride Month.

“Happy Pride …..,” which whitethorn person been a reference to her characteristic erstwhile saying “I’m a ‘trysexual.’ I’ll effort thing once,” during nan 3rd play of SATC she wrote via Instagram.

Later that month, Kim opened up astir her astonishing determination to reunite connected surface pinch her Sex and nan City costars SJP, 59, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.

“It’s very absorbing to get a telephone from nan caput of HBO saying, ‘What tin we do?’ and I went, ‘Hmm, Let maine get creative,’” she said during an quality connected The View. “And 1 of those things was to get Pat Field backmost because I conscionable thought that if I’m going to travel back, I gotta travel backmost pinch that Samantha style. I gotta push it. And we did.”

Kim whitethorn person gotten a ringing to play a portion successful play 2, but that wasn’t nan lawsuit during nan premiere season. In 2022, nan Vancouver Island autochthonal revealed that she learned astir nan Sex and nan City spinoff done societal media … because she wasn’t asked to return.

“I made my feelings clear aft nan imaginable 3rd [SATC] movie, truthful I recovered retired astir it for illustration everyone other did — connected societal media,” she told Variety in May 2022.

SJP reacted to Kim’s connection later that twelvemonth and confirmed that she was not asked to subordinate nan spinoff. However, nan reasoning didn’t deduce from hate.

“She made it clear that that wasn’t thing she wanted to pursue, and it nary longer felt comfortable for us, and truthful it didn’t hap to us,” nan Hocus Pocus character said during an quality connected The Hollywood Reporter‘s “Awards Chatter” podcast. “That’s not ‘slamming’ her, it’s conscionable learning. You’ve sewage to perceive to somebody, and if they’re publically talking astir thing and it doesn’t propose it’s immoderate spot they want to be, aliases a personification they want to play, aliases an situation successful which they want to be, you get to an property wherever you’re like, ‘Well, we perceive that.'”