(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 11 JAN - Sex returns to the city.
HboMax has commissioned a revival of "Sex and the City": time passes for all and the surviving heroines of the series (yes, because in the highly anticipated sequel Samantha will not be there) will have reached the milestone of menopause.
23 years after the first episode, the new chapter will be titled 'And Just Like That' and will air with Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, three of the original cast stars, background co-star of the New York of a thousand lights, as well. different from the semi-abandoned city due to the Covid epidemic.
Kim Cattrall, who played the uninhibited Samantha Jones in the series, will not participate in new episodes following the adventures of Carrie Bradshaw (55-year-old Parker), Charlotte York (Davis, 55) and Miranda Hobbes (Nixon, 54) once she crosses the threshold. of 50 years.
The revival - reports "Variety" - will be ten half-hour episodes each.
Production is expected to begin in New York in the spring.
Samantha's absence made fans argue and anger.
Between Cattrall and Parker, on the other hand, there had been no good blood for a long time: in a 2017 interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, the actress had confirmed that she had closed with the part and implored the creative team - already under accusation for the incredible "whiteness" of the series - to transfer the role to a black actress.
It is not yet clear what will happen now in the revival: if the role will be inherited it will be an Afro-American or Latin actress, or if instead the 'show runners' decide to kill Samantha, taking advantage of a recurrence of breast cancer that had affected the character in the final season of the series.
Based on the books by sex columnist Candace Bushnell, "Sexand the City" debuted in 1998 on HBO and was a great success launching the four characters of the 30-something New Yorkers who navigated careers, friendships and the perennial search for the love of life, always sporting incredible hautecouture dresses on Manolo's dizzying stiletto heels.
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