Kyle MacLachlan reveals whether he’s planning to return for SATC reboot

Kyle MacLachlan – perhaps better known as Trey McDougall from the hit series – has opened up about whether he’ll reprise the iconic role.

Kyle MacLachlan has played so many iconic roles, it’d be hard to pin down his most memorable – but his unfailingly polite turn as Trey MacDougall in Sex and the City would have to be right up the top of that list.

The show has made a big pop culture comeback in recent years thanks to its reboot, And Just Like That, which has seen many original stars reprising their beloved (mostly) characters.

With season three reportedly about to begin production, could Charlotte’s high-society first husband finally join them?

“Not that I’m aware of … yet,” MacLachlan told news.com.au in London, ahead of the premiere of his new series, Prime Video’s new dystopian epic, Fallout.

Despite the seeming lack of concrete plans, he confirmed he was definitely “open” to it.

“But we’ll see. I’m here. They [the producers] know how to find me.”

He appeared in the original series of Sex and the City (alongside Kristin Davis) as Charlotte’s first husband, Trey.

MacLachlan at the UK screening of Fallout last week. Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video

In the meantime, in a world very far removed from the Upper East Side, MacLachlan currently stars as vault-dweller Hank in a new series based on the best-selling video game, Fallout.

Set 200 years after an apocalypse flattened modern civilisation, the privileged inhabitants of the underground shelters are forced to return to the surface – where they are stunned to discover what a violent, hellish world it has become.

The actor stars in the series as Hank. Picture: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video ©Amazon

It’s hardly the first time Hollywood has tackled the end-of-the-world concept – but as MacLachlan points out, there’s a key detail separating Fallout from many of its counterparts.

“We start with the apocalypse, of course, but it’s really a story about moving forward. It’s a story about rebuilding. It’s a story about survival after and what that world is, what those communities are like,” he explained.

“How has mankind adapted to this horrific event? And it’s a form of a positive idea that we can adapt. It’s not like in any way that we would think maybe, but it’s possible. So the concept is what I was really excited about.”

The story focuses on a post-apocalyptic world. Picture: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video ©Amazon

It was also the elaborate “world-building” – the product of a very generous reported budget of around $US153 million for its eight episodes – that attracted MacLachlan to the project.

“There were some sequences where we worked in what’s called a ‘volume stage’, where all of the background is computer screen-generated, and I’d never worked on those before,” he said.

“It was interesting and much more effective [than previous techniques] because you could actually, as an actor, see the environment that’s being created as the audience is seeing it – so it’s really helpful in creating a reality for us.”

The star – whose numerous acting credits include starring roles in the original Dune film in 1984 and hit crime drama series Twin Peaks – added that after the computer-generated imagery surge of the 90s, Hollywood now appeared to be going back to its roots.

MacLachlan in 1984 film Dune.

Speaking specifically about his time on the sci-fi set of Dune in the eighties, MacLachlan explained that common special effects techniques had included “miniatures and practicals and real creatures.”

“We didn’t have CGI back then, and now we’ve moved through an era of CGI and now we’re back with Fallout – and, apart from a few of the backdrops are practical as well, they’re real, they’re functional,” he said.

“They [production departments] made the monsters for the most part, and not much CGI was used, so it seems like we’re going backwards to go forwards.”

Fallout also stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland) and Michael Emerson (Person of Interest).

The series, from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, will premiere April 12 in Australia on Prime Video.

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