Sex and the City 3 would reportedly have killed off Mr Big
Star Kim Cattrall, however, has been firm in her intention not to return to her character from the HBO series
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Your support makes all the difference.Sex and the City 3 would have killed off Mr Big, according to a new podcast.
James Andrew Miller, who hosts podcast Origins, reports that the character would have died from a heart attack in the shower. The film would have dealt with Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, as she dealt with the loss, instead of focusing on her relationship with her friends.
Chris Noth, who played the character, said he didn’t have much love for the first two film spin-offs of the HBO series – “I just hate the cornball s*** and I thought it was sentimental and overly romantic” – but felt the idea of a third installment sounded promising. ”I heard it was really a superior script,” he said.
However, Miller also cites sources close to Kim Cattrall, who played Samatha Jones on the show, stating that the actor simply has no interest in doing any more Sex and the City, as she's stated several times publicly. Cattrall also reportedly believed that the script didn’t have much to offer for the character of Samantha. Writer-producer Amy Harris said: “It was really deep down [that] she wanted to move on, and that’s a completely legitimate choice.”
Source also claim that salaries became an issue. “We negotiated in good faith,” Parker said. “We wanted it to be a place that felt good to everybody, and if we were aware that contractually there were any issues, we hope that they were settled, because we wanted Kim to be there. Michael and I worked all summer. I had many, many, many, many conversations with her manager, where I was told, ‘She’d love to hear from you.’ I e-mailed her.”
“I tried to reach out to her and say like, ‘We want you part of this. You’re an integral part—of course you are. I hope when you read this script you’ll see the beauty, the joy, the heartbreak in it that I see—that we have seen.’ But I can’t force her to see it. But we did negotiate through the process, and ultimately the studio said, ‘We can’t meet those asks of hers. We’re not able to do it . . . the economics don’t make sense for us.’”
“So, then, it’s over, but that’s not a character assassination—that’s just the way business works.”
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