Kim Cattrall This is the star of many extremes. For the same role – Samantha Jones in “sex in the big city” – she won the Golden Globe for the best actress and the Golden Raspberry for the worst. During over forty years of career in Hollywood Kim Cattrall She appeared at such artists as Otto Preminger, Brian de Palma and Roman Polański.
A huge achievement in the career was participation in the series “Sex in the big city”. She conquered the hearts of critics with the role of confident, proud and challenging Samantha.
Although the production significantly influenced her career, it never hid her dissatisfaction with work on the set of the series. She was paid little compared to another star – Sarah Jessik Parker, with her serial friends, did not get along, and when she was offered to participate in the film version of “Sex …” she refused sharply. Only when she was promised to pay as much as Parker agreed to enter the set. Cattrall earned 7 million for the performance in the first feature of the meter, and for repeating the role – $ 10 million.
“Sex in the big city” is an American series, created by the HBO station based on a book of the same title. The premiere seasons were broadcast in 1998-2004, now they can be seen on the HBO Max platform. The production tells about the fate of four friends living in New York and their love conquests. Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim CattrallKristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
The picture was a huge success. In addition, in December 2021 he made his debut on the HBO Max platform The serial sequel “and just so”, which recently had the third installment.
Since the premiere of the new series, fans have been wondering why Kim Cattrall, who was an undeniable star of “Sex in a big city”, did not appear in the new series. It turns out that the reasons must be sought in conflict from years ago.
The conflict that fulfilled between Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessika Parker on the set of “Sex in the big city” It has been arousing great interests for yearsIE. The reasons for the dispute are not entirely clear. Some sources cited by the media say that the beginning of mutual reluctance was Disproportion in the earnings of both ladies, others maintained that Cattrall could not get along with her friends from the series. The actress herself in one of the interviews, in turn, stated that Parker “could have been nicer”, and cooperation with her in fact did not go well.
It is worth adding that Cattrall is about 10 years older than other actresses. There were rumors that Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis stood on the side of Sarah Jessiki Parker. According to reports, the only person who supported Kim was producer Darren Star, who unfortunately left the series after the second season.
In 2017, Kim Cattrall said in an interview with Piers Morgan that she “never friends” with Sarah Jessica Parker.
“We were never friends. We were friends and in a sense it was healthy because there was a clear border between professional and personal life,” said the actress.
When another film from the “Sex …” trilogy was planned Cattrall definitely refused a role. She explained her decision with other obligations and age.
“I am very sorry that we will not make a third film. We had such a beautiful and funny script,” Parker complained in autumn 2017. The media quickly picked up and blamed Cattrall, which was supposed to demand that in exchange for her participation in the trilogy finale, the label produced her original projects. The actress replied on Instagram: “My only request? Let it not be the third film.”
The situation was inflamed by the Instagram Post of 2018, which Cattrall wrote after Parker published her entry after her brother’s death.
“I will explain it to you very clearly. You are not my family. You are not a friend. So I appeal for the last time: Stop using our tragedy to warm up your image, “the star wrote emphatically. According to rumors, it was because of the difficult relationship between actresses Cattrall did not perform in the first season” and just so “.
A few years later, the conflict revived. In 2022, Sarah Jessica Parker gave an interview in which she assured that she never began a conflict with her friend from the set and did not fuel his dislike. She emphasized that she did everything to avoid misunderstandings on the professional level.
“I spent many years on photo plans, always trying to be decent for colleagues. I have never spoken any offensive words to the people I worked with. Nobody has ever talked about me like her. I would like people to stop calling it a fight or quarrel, because it does not reflect reality. Over all these years, only one person took the floor, “emphasized Sarah Jessica Parker.
These words did not disappear unnoticed – Kathy Najęmy reacted to them, whom we saw in “Hokus Post 2”. In the post on X she chose Cattrall.
“Kim, I am sending you a lot of love and support today. Here is one of the best and most authentic people in this industry, and maybe all over the world, “she wrote on the day on which the aforementioned interview appeared.
Kim Cattrall agreed to a minor concession to make fans a bit happy, who did not trust such a turn of matters. The actress appeared in a short episode in the series “Simply”. She tried to avoid contact with the cast then – She set up hard conditions: she will not have to cooperate with any of the actresses or producer Michael Patrick King, who is privately a friend of Parker. Apparently, the head of HBO himself intervened in the whole thing – Casey Bloys, who wanted to hire a star at all costs.
In response to the commentary of one of Instagram’s users, who stated that although he could not wait for the continuation of the cult production, he regrets that Samantha’s figure would not appear on the screen, Parker confessed that her lack will certainly be felt.
“We also miss her. We all loved her so much. Samantha is simply not part of this story. But it will always be part of us, no matter what we do and what we are working on ” – the star pointed out.
When asked in the comments about the allegedly tense relations between her with her former friend from the plan, the actress She diplomatically stated that she did not feel reluctant to her.