Cynthia Nixon Is Worried About Kim Cattrall’s ‘AJLT’ Cameo

Cynthia Nixon needs And Simply Like That followers to handle their expectations for Kim Cattrall’s season 2 cameo.

“I fear that with all of the build-up, individuals are going to surprise what all of the fuss was about. It’s necessary to know that it’s a very temporary, very small cameo,” Nixon, 57, instructed London’s The Instances in an interview revealed on Sunday, July 2.

The New York native, who performs Miranda Hobbes within the collection, added: “We had been very dissatisfied that the key leaked of Kim’s upcoming look. We so hoped it was one thing folks wouldn’t learn about till they noticed the episode and that it will be a enjoyable shock as they had been watching.”

In Might, Selection reported that Cattrall, 66 — who didn’t reprise her function as Samantha Jones in season 1 of the Intercourse and the Metropolis spinoff — is slated to seem in a single scene in the course of the season 2 finale. Her former costar Sarah Jessica Parker — whom she has had her ups and downs with through the years — instructed Leisure Tonight in June that she was “actually excited” about Cattrall’s cameo. “I believed it was a very good thought and I used to be thrilled that, , we might make it occur and that it labored for her and it’s simply very nice to see. It’s very nice. I used to be actually happy,” the Hocus Pocus 2 actress, 58, shared.

Parker beforehand instructed the Hollywood Reporter in June 2022 that Cattrall hadn’t been in talks to affix the forged of AJLT previous to its December 2021 premiere.

“We didn’t ask her to be a part of this as a result of she made it clear that that wasn’t one thing she needed to pursue, and it not felt snug for us, and so it didn’t happen to us,” the Emmy winner, who performs Carrie Bradshaw, defined. “You’ve acquired to hearken to any individual, and in the event that they’re publicly speaking about one thing and it doesn’t recommend it’s someplace they wish to be, or an individual they wish to play, or an atmosphere wherein they wish to be, you get to an age the place you’re like, ‘Effectively, we hear that.’”

AJLT writers defined Cattrall’s absence throughout season 1 by noting that Samantha had moved to London after rising aside from her finest mates Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis).

Whereas the TV besties’ fictional falling out was chalked as much as Carrie not using Samantha as a publicist, the explanations for Parker and Cattrall’s offscreen unhealthy blood are much less clear.

Following the loss of life of Cattrall’s brother in February 2018, Parker despatched her condolences by way of Instagram, which her former costar didn’t respect.

“Your steady reaching out is a painful reminder of how merciless you actually had been then and now. Let me make this VERY clear (if I haven’t already). You aren’t my household. You aren’t my good friend. So, I’m writing to let you know one final time to cease exploiting our tragedy as a way to restore your ‘good woman’ persona,” Cattrall wrote by way of Instagram on the time.

Parker, for her half, has since shut down Cattrall’s claims that she mistreated her.

“It’s very exhausting to speak concerning the state of affairs with Kim as a result of I’ve been so cautious about not ever desirous to say something that’s disagreeable,” the Divorce alum mentioned throughout a June 2022 look on the “Awards Chatter” podcast. “There was one particular person speaking. … I’ve spent quite a lot of years working actually exhausting to at all times be first rate to all people on the set, to deal with folks, to be accountable to and for folks, each my employers and the those who I really feel I’m chargeable for as a producer of the present. And there simply isn’t anybody else who’s ever talked about me this manner.”

Though Cattrall is just stepping again into the SATC universe briefly, she had some stipulations about her look.

“It’s very attention-grabbing to get a name from the pinnacle of HBO saying, ‘What can we do?’ and I went, ‘Hmm. Let me get artistic,’” the Glamorous star quipped throughout a June look on The View. “And a kind of issues was to get [costume designer] Pat Discipline again, as a result of I simply thought that if I’m going to come back again I gotta come again with that Samantha model, I gotta push it.”

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