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The
popular sequel to the hit show "Sex and The City" returns to
screens this week, as Carrie, with the support of her pals - old
and new - embraces single life after being widowed in season
one.
"I feel excited about this season," Sarah Jessica Parker, who
plays Bradshaw, said in an interview. "We spent a season in
grief, which was appropriate for such a consequential loss.
"So it's very nice to see and was certainly fun to play a sort
of re-emergence, a resurfacing of Carrie, especially as she
pursues being single in this particular city that has been
familiar to her, but is not any longer the same city, nor is she
the same."
"Sex and the City," which ran from 1998 to 2004, followed the
friendship and romances of writer Carrie and her friends
Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha. "And Just Like That" only
features the first three, all now in their 50s, as well as new
characters: Che, Seema and Nya.
“It just felt like a very buoyant season," Parker said.
"The tone felt familiar to the original show, as we were all
sort of the characters on paths of discovery and that provides
for whimsy, absurdity, amusement, joy, disappointment,
surprise."
Director, writer and producer Michael Patrick King said the goal
of the second season of "And Just Like That" was "to make the
new characters someone you knew better."
"One of our goals was to not just look at the cover of the book
but open it and see who these people are," he said.
In this season, Carrie meets up with former fiance Aidan, and
there is a surprise appearance by original cast member Kim
Cattrall, who played Samantha. In the first season of "And Just
Like That," Carrie is only seen messaging with now London-based
Samantha by phone.
"She appears in text in this season as well and ... just the
idea of adding the face to the text felt nice," Parker said.
"It's quick, but it's very sweet.”
(Reporting by Alicia Powell; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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