Justin Theroux on ‘Sex and the City’ seasons 1 (left) and 2.Photo:HBO (2)
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And Just Like That…showrunnerMichael Patrick King, who also worked onSexand the City, has his reasons for casting actors in two different roles on the series.
Thursday’sAJLTseason 2 finalesaw exactly that happen when André de Shields returned as one of Nya’s (Karen Pittman) law school colleagues after playing Charlotte’s (Kristin Davis) tap dancing instructor in a season 4 of episode ofSex and the City.
“When I sat down to write Jean, I was like, it has to be someone royal and it has to be someone Black royalty and scholarly and poetic,” King, 68, said on Thursday’s episode of theAnd Just Like That… The Writers Roompodcast.“So I just wrote it, really, with André in mind. And we just said, ‘Would you do this?’ And he came in and he was letter perfect.”
André de Shields on ‘And Just Like That…’ season 2 (left) and ‘Sex and the City’ season 4.HBO (2)
King acknowledged that the showdid the same thingwithJustin Theroux.
“He was just like, well who else I going to be better in that part than him?” King said of Theroux.
Justin Theroux (left) and Willie Garson on ‘Sex and the City’ season 1.HBO
Theroux joked toWillie Geistin 2021 that sinceSex and the Cityfollows “girls who are dating all the time, you burn through every single male actor in New York.”
“They were like, ‘Why don’t you come back?'" Theroux continued. “And their idea was that they would just shave my head. And they’re like ‘Voila! total transformation.'”
Justin Theroux and Sarah Jessica Parker on ‘Sex and the City’ season 2.HBO
Peter Hermannalso played two different characters in theSATCuniverse: David, a Jewish man who Charlotte briefly dated in season 6 ofSex and the Cityafter breaking up with Harry (Evan Handler), and George Campbell, a software engineer who Carrie accidentally knocked off his bike inAJLTseason 2.
Sex and the CityauthorCandace Bushnellchalked the repetition upto a lack of single men in N.Y.C.
Peter Hermann on ‘Sex and the City’ season 6 (left) and ‘And Just Like That’ season 2.HBO; Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
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“The fact that Carrie’s app designer boyfriend is the same guy that Charlotte was set up with at the synagogue in season six really speaks to the lack of eligible bachelors in New York City,” Bushnell, 64, jokinglytweeted last month.
Parker’s real-life palAndy Cohenalso made acameo onSATCin season 4when he appeared in the background of a scene in which Carrie went to a gay bar.
Andy Cohen on ‘Sex and the City’ season 4.HBO (2)
TheWatch What Happens Livehost, 55, came back in season 6 as a shoe salesman who assisted Carrie at a department store.
Andy Cohen and Sarah Jessica Parker on ‘Sex and the City’ season 6.HBO
HBO
Cohen revealed in 2019 heauditioned for the part of Anthony Marentino, which eventually went toMario Cantone.
“I don’t think the expectation was for it to wind up being such a huge part,” Cohen said onWWHL. “Mario is so great that they were probably like, ‘Okay, well we have to.’”
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source: people.com
