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Kim Cattrall Says She'll Never Do Sex and the City 3 [Updated]
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Update (September 29, 12:15 P.M.): On Friday morning, Kim Cattrall responded to accusations that her demands were responsible for sinking the third Sex and the City movie. In a tweet, she said the only "demand" she made "was that I didn't want to do a 3rd film . . . & that was back in 2016."
Following Parker's comments, Cattrall tweeted "Amen" to a fan who condemned Sex and the City acolytes for bashing her decision.
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Take off your Manolo Blahniks and put down your Magnolia cupcake, because a third Sex and the City movie is no longer happening. Despite months—nay, years of reports that TV's iconic New York quartet would once again join forces for a third movie (ideally one that could wipe the second movie from our collective memory), it appears those plans are now dead in the water. Sarah Jessica Parker, the erstwhile Carrie Bradshaw, confirmed the news to Extra Thursday night, saying that even though the team had all the trappings ready, it's no longer happening.
"It's over . . . we're not doing it," Parker said at the New York City Ballet Fall Gala. (Alexander Petrovsky would be so proud.)
"I'm disappointed," she continued. "We had this beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, joyful, very relatable script and story. It's not just disappointing that we don't get to tell the story and have that experience, but more so for that audience that has been so vocal in wanting another movie."
The swift revelation put an official stake in the heart of questions about whether a third movie would ever come to fruition. For nearly a year, S.J.P. has been teasing fans whenever it comes up. She teased the sequel earlier this year at Vulture Festival; she teased it last year at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit. But as Steve's Roman Catholic ma might say, the lord giveth, and the lord taketh away. Just as soon as we had confirmation that the movie was real, it was ripped away from us entirely.
We couldn't help but wonder . . . who or what ultimately killed the third movie? S.J.P. is playing it coy, channeling her polite inner Charlotte and sidestepping an opportunity to point a well-manicured finger at someone on the S.A.T.C. team. But hey, that's why we have the rumor mill, which recently churned out one possible theory: that co-star Kim Cattrall, who plays the lascivious Samantha Jones, was holding out, per DailyMailTV, refusing to sign on for another sequel unless studio Warner Bros. pledged to develop other movie projects she was working on. The other three members of the core four, including Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, were reportedly signed on and ready to go. Rather than acquiesce to demands, though, Warner Bros. reportedly decided not to go through with the movie. After all, a Sex and the City project wouldn't feel right if it didn't have all four girlfriends.
Representatives for Cattrall have not yet responded to Vanity Fair's request for comment, which is what power publicist Samantha would probably advise them to do.
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