Kim Cattrall returned to the Intercourse and the Metropolis universe in true Samantha Jones style — actually.

Reprising her function because the powerhouse publicist for her first cameo on And Simply Like That…, it was as if no time had handed since Cattrall, 67, had graced viewers’ screens. In actuality, she hasn’t stepped into Samantha’s stilettos since 2010, when the Intercourse and the Metropolis 2 film premiered.

Donning an attention-grabbing pink gown with a metallic silver trench coat and a lime inexperienced clutch for her buzzy season 2 finale second, her outfit harkened again to the daring closet of her beloved character, because of former Intercourse and the Metropolis costume designer Patricia Area, who made her very first return to the franchise only for Cattrall’s cameo. Cattrall even sported her character’s signature jewellery look, with a stack of silver bangles crowding her wrist in her transient shot.

Area famously didn’t return to model Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and their new pals on And Simply Like That … attributable to a “time battle,” she informed WWD in 2021. Nonetheless, “Kim and I’ve a really nice friendship,” she informed PEOPLE in June 2023 whereas reflecting on her new documentary, Blissful Garments: A Movie About Patricia Area. 

When it got here to Samantha’s magnificence look, her make-up artist Kyra Panchenko informed PEOPLE she wished to make use of “natural-looking” merchandise for the cameo.

Samantha had an easy glow as she sat within the backseat of a automobile for the transient look — throughout which she referred to as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and knowledgeable her that flight delays had interrupted her plan to reach in time for her pal’s “Final Supper,” a farewell to Carrie’s iconic Higher East Aspect residence.

Panchenko saved the glam gentle and Samantha fresh-faced for the bittersweet second between pals, choosing a tender eyeshadow and liner look and a glowy, bronzed base with Gee Magnificence’s Prime Pores and skin. She informed PEOPLE she purposefully used merchandise to make Cattrall’s pores and skin look “wholesome and dewy” for the large return, prepping the star’s face with Joanna Vargas’ Twilight Face Masks.

Within the scene, Samantha is pressured to say goodbye to Carrie’s longtime house nearly, and, in an improvised second, she kissed her telephone, sending a digital smooch from London — the place she’s lived since Carrie fired her as her publicist and since earlier than the AJLT timeline — to the Higher East Aspect.

Showrunner Michael Patrick King revealed that the second was improvised — “It’s simply completely a second of an actor enjoying a second, and it’s very nice,” he defined — throughout an look on the And Simply Like That… The Writers Room podcast. 

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He stated that, in his thoughts, Samantha, Carrie, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) by no means misplaced contact when Samantha moved to London. 

“It’s exhausting to not think about that Samantha would have gotten a name from Charlotte and Miranda and saying, ‘Hey, Carrie’s doing The Final Supper and this time, it’s actual. She’s leaving this residence,’ ” he stated. “As a result of I at all times, in my multiverse of And Simply Like That…, Intercourse and the Metropolis, they have been at all times speaking. All the time.”

Max renewed the sequence for a 3rd season this week, although no phrase on whether or not or not Cattrall would possibly seem once more.