‘I kinda think I shouldn’t say more’: Sarah Jessica Parker teases a big return in the new season of And Just Like That
Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker reveals the real reason one major character is returning in the new season of And Just Like That...
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Sarah Jessica Parker has teased a “big” return ahead of the second season of And Just Like That...
The New York-based actor and style icon revealed the real reason producers brought back John Corbett as Aidan Shaw, the ex-fiance of Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw, for the upcoming second season.
“I was excited about, frankly, being on set again with John Corbett,” Parker said from her home in Manhattan.
“Before the writer’s room started for the second season, [AJLT creator Michael Patrick King] shared this thought … about Aidan – and what a return might mean, and why.”
Carrie nearly married Aidan in the fourth season of Sex and the City, before abruptly calling off their engagement and ultimately, marrying Big (Chris Noth) – who died of a heart attack in the first episode of the spin-off series.
SJP and Corbett were pictured holding hands in character while shooting the second season of AJLT in New York – and for Parker, his return has special significance. “I know that there are audiences that feel enormous, profound affection for Aidan, and there are probably people who have strong feelings and maybe object to that relationship,” Parker said.
“And all the ways in which it fell short in the ways it could, and should have been. Carrie has shed grief ... this season. It’s a much more buoyant season – like some, not like everybody, Carrie has felt as if she had given the time to grieve [Big], in a way.
“And has wanted and felt more removed from those more acute feelings, and is looking at New York, once again, as a place of promise and hope, romantically and professionally.
“Aidan impacts that because his return means that she is a different person in the city when she is with Aidan, and I don’t want to say what evolves – or what doesn’t evolve. It certainly informed the way she was thinking about her life, and love, and romantic entanglement. I kinda think I shouldn’t say more.”
Corbett isn’t the only “big” name returning to AJLT – Kim Cattrall, who played PR maven Samantha Jones, will be back for a cameo, despite an ongoing public feud with Parker (Cattrall won’t appear on screen with Parker or co-stars Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis).
Meantime, SJP has reflected on the impact the original series had on the portrayal of women in Hollywood, 25 years since its premiere episode. Of Sex and the City’s enduring legacy, Parker mused: “We were allowed to have conversations in ways that commercial television just didn’t allow”.
“The kind of language you used, and I’m not talking about swear words, I’m talking about the kind of intimate, salty, candid conversations that were being had among four women about their intimate lives had just not yet been seen.”
Season two of And Just Like That... premieres on June 22 via Binge.
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