In an interview with The Guardian in August 2019, Kim Cattrall admitted simply, "I went past the finish line playing Samantha Jones because I loved Sex and the City. It was a blessing in so many ways but after the second movie I'd had enough." She added, "I couldn't understand why they wouldn't just replace me with another actress." She hopes her legacy is as someone "entertaining and honest," explaining, "I pretend for a living so it's nice in the real world to be truthful."
Speaking to the Women's Prize for Fiction podcast in December 2020, Cattrall revealed she'd received a huge amount of backlash for refusing to reprise her SATC role, but her resolve remains untarnished. As the actress sees it (via ET), "I'm lucky enough to have the choice, not that I haven't worked for it. I have. It's something I feel very lucky to have and I'm very protective of it." She reasoned, "I wouldn't be any good doing something that I really didn't want to do."
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