Kristin Davis said she and her fellow cast members did not know the Sex and the City spinoff And Just Like That would end after three seasons until the news was publicly announced.
Davis, who plays Charlotte York, told host Drew Barrymore on Tuesday that it was “definitely true” the cast had not been informed that the HBO series would be discontinued beyond the three-season commitment they had signed. “Our commitment that we had made was a three-year commitment to each other, so we knew that part, but I just assumed that we were going to keep going,” she said.
Showrunner Michael Patrick King announced in early August that he had decided the Season 3 finale provided “a wonderful place to stop” while he was writing it. King said he and lead actor Sarah Jessica Parker delayed sharing the decision publicly so the word "final" would not "overshadow the fun of watching the season." King’s post, shared Aug. 1, came two weeks before the series’ final episode wrapped production on Aug. 14.
Davis, 60, said on Barrymore’s program that despite knowing the original three-season commitment, she had expected the series to continue. In social media posts after King’s announcement, Davis wrote, “I am profoundly sad. I love our whole beautiful cast and crew. 400 artisans working so hard on our show with deep love.” Parker wrote separately that portraying Carrie Bradshaw had “dominated my professional heartbeat for 27 years,” adding that she had loved the character "most of all." Cynthia Nixon posted behind-the-scenes photographs and called the series “an exciting and life changing part of the new, fabulous, middle aged incarnation" of Sex and the City.
The revival, which reunited Parker, Davis and Nixon, addressed topics such as aging, alcoholism, death and gender during its three-season run. Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones in the original series, did not return as a series regular because she declined to rejoin the revival amid long-standing tensions with Parker; she did make a cameo in the second-season finale.
While King described the decision as creative — saying the story reached a natural stopping point during the writing of the finale — some members of the creative team have left the door open to future projects. Elisa Zuritsky, an executive producer on the series, said last month that because Parker’s Carrie is alive on screen "it could happen," adding that she was “the eternal optimist” about possible returns.
The announcement marked an abrupt end to a revival that had been positioned as a continuation of the original Sex and the City narrative, prompting public statements from principal cast members and discussion among fans and critics about the decision and the series’ controversial moments. Davis’s comments on The Drew Barrymore Show are the latest public confirmation from a principal cast member that the broader ensemble was not briefed on the decision to stop after the contracted three seasons.