Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall Feud Explained

Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall Feud Explained 

 

 

Sarah Jessica Parker wants to set the record straight.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the And Just Like That... star opens up about her breakup with former S*x and the City co-star Kim Cattrall.

 

 

 

"It's very difficult to talk about the situation with Kim," Parker says on THR's Awards Talk podcast. "I've been very careful never to say anything unpleasant, because that's not the way I like to conduct conversations as complicated as this... I think the best way to do that, honestly, is to go over how it happened."

 

 

 

What follows is Parker's side of the story, which begins in 2017, when S*x and the City 3 was famously scrapped. Cattrall has previously maintained that she said "no" to making the film. “It's a great role,” she told Piers Morgan in 2017. “I played it beyond the finish line and then some, and I loved it. And another the actress should play it.”

 

 

 

Parker, however, insists that Warner Bros. "didn't feel comfortable" agreeing to Cattrall's demands and, as a result, decided not to go ahead with the sequel. (According to THR, Cattrall made her appearance in SATC 3 contingent on Warner Bros. greenlighting a separate project of hers.)

 

 

 

“We didn't make the movie because we didn't want to do it without Kim, and the studio didn't want to do it, so it fell apart,” explains Parker. “It wasn't that she said 'no' to the movie; is that the studio said 'no' to the movie, which, you know, happens. And every actor has the right to ask for things, to have… a contract that makes him feel good. I never would have discussed it because, frankly, that's not my problem. Did we get disappointed? Of course. But it happens.

 

 

 

 

Regardless of the reasons the film fell apart, one thing was clear to Parker and her longtime collaborator Michael Patrick King: Cattrall was ready to put Samantha in the rearview mirror. And it was for that reason that she was not invited to be a part of the HBO Max revival. And just like that...

 

 

 

"You have to listen to someone," says Parker. “If they're publicly talking about something and it doesn't suggest that it's a place they want to be, or a person they want to play with, or an environment they want to be in, you get to an age where you're like, 'Well , we heard that.'”