Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones on Sex and the City season 6, episode 10 where she’s at the Soho House pool.Photo:HBO/MAX
HBO/MAX
Warning: This post contains spoilers from the season 2 finale of Max’s And Just Like That…
Talk about a throwback! Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall)returnedto theSex and the Cityuniverse duringthe season 2 finaleof its Max spinoffAnd Just Like That…and made a joke that resonated with longtime fans of the series.
During anon-screen phone call, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) teased her pal about using a British accent after her move to London. Samantha then jokingly referred to herself as Annabelle Bronstein from “Indja,” a callback to her British alter-ego in a season 6 episode ofSex and the City.
Kim Cattrall on ‘And Just Like That…'.Courtesy of Max
Courtesy of Max
The idea for the identity swap was hatched after a staff member asked if had left behind her membership card. Carrie narrated, “Since they didn’t seem to know who she was at the Soho house, she figured she could be Annabelle Bronstein. The next day, Samantha tested the waters with her fake ID.”
The next day at the pool, a staff member foiled her scheme and told it was “impossible” for her to be Annabelle Bronstein because she was in London for the week and she was British. In response, Samantha used a caricaturish British accent and insisted she was “absolutely” Annabelle Bronstein.
“I venture to guess you are not in fact from the U.K.,” the staff member responded and she tried to salvage her lie, explaining. “Well, that’s true. I was raised inIndia” (pronounced “Indja” for comic effect).
Carrie summed up the scheme in voiceover: “On any given day, there are a lot of versions of crazy right here in New York. Today, Annabelle Bronstein had multiple personalities and at least two accents.”
Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones on Sex and the City season 6, episode 10 where she’s at the Soho House pool.HBO/MAX
Cattrall reprised the role after her character was mentioned throughout the first and second seasons ofAnd Just Like That…— but not seen on screen. In the first season, Carrie slowly reconnected with Samantha after her move to London, thanks to a text conversation here and there, flowers sent to the funeral of Mr. Big (Chris Noth) and an off-screen drinks reunion.
Samantha’s presence was slightly less felt throughout season 2 — thoughviewers got a glimpse of herin episode 8 when Charlotte was looking through old photos — but excitement for her appearance hit a fever pitch when the season finale trailer showed Carrie receiving a phone call from her.
Kim Cattrall attends “Modern Love With Kim Cattrall” premiere during the 2023 Tribeca Festival at SVA Theatre on June 14, 2023 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Despite Cattrall vowing tonot return to the series, she had a change of heart finally when she allegedly received a call from the “head of HBO saying, ‘What can we do?’” with regards to appearing onAnd Just Like That….
One of those demands included bringing back longtime friend and originalSex and the Citycostume designerPatricia Field, who is not working onAnd Just Like That….“I just thought that if I’m going to come back, I’m going to come back with that kind of Samantha style," she said onThe Viewin June. “I’ve got to push it. And we did.”
According toVariety, Cattrall filmed the cameo on March 22 in New York City. She did her scene “without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series,” including Parker, Nixon and Davis, and she reportedly didn’t interact with King.
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And Just Like That…seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on Max.
source: people.com
