New Yorkers often come across these colorful filming posters in the wild, where film and television productions reserve space in the city and its boroughs. This is particularly true for And just like thatwho, just like his predecessor, Sex and the citymoves to Manhattan to film each season.
However, even the producers were unsettled when fake ads appeared, touting episode descriptions such as “Carrie can’t prove it, but she thinks her dentist is changing her teeth.” Similar gag tracts for the series were recorded on the streets of New York during the filming of And just like that season 3. The viral culprit turned out to be Kat Thek, local writer based in Brooklynand everything was done in good humor.
“Of course we knew that!” » executive producer Michael Patrick King tell Weekly Entertainment. “I think it caused us to lose a spot or two, but I’d rather have that than no energy around. What I love is when what you’re working on becomes an interactive work of art with the world, from the fake locations and storylines people decide to write, to the memes. Anything that continually creates energy around the show is fantastic.
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King confirms that season 3 will be available not actually see Sarah Jessica Parker‘s Carrie Bradshaw is dating Mr. Bean, then accidentally sends him a nude photo, as a fake review reads. And no, Kristin Davis“Charlotte York Goldenblatt will not become a Juggalo. “The phrase I would use for season 3 is ‘new,'” he says, giving EW the real Intel on the next chapter. “Everything is new.”
King acknowledges that the series left audiences with a bit of a conundrum in the Season 2 finale. Carrie threw a farewell dinner at her apartment, attended by all of her close friends, so she could move into a luxurious three-story home in Gramercy Park with her old/new love Aidan Shaw (John Corbett). Except Aidan decides he needs a five-year break (with maybe a visit here and there “for good behavior”) to spend time with his sons. “The first question I asked everyone was, ‘What exactly did Carrie agree to?’ “, remembers King. “What is the arrangement they made? What I loved even in the writers’ room was that there were six different versions of what she agreed to. When I knew there was still a gray area, I knew we had great potential to plow and exploit.
The five-year element is “an important plot point” for season 3, he confirms. “I have no interest in torturing an audience too much. The Carrie-Aidan relationship is dramatic and exciting because it contains two points of view. I think half the fans who don’t want Carrie to be in a relationship will say, “Enough!” The other half will understand that when you love someone, what comes with them is their family. It’s an interesting thing when Carrie Bradshaw is in love and figuring out how to make it work when at a certain age everyone has a past. There are a few pitfalls in the Carrie-Aidan story that we are also very aware of.
In addition to Carrie’s house in Gramercy, there is also a new beginning for Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), who is moving into a new apartment. And there are “many new loves,” King promises, as well as “new obstacles for old loves.” Aside from the main trio, season 2 ended with real estate broker Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) finding her place with a new pal, director Ravi Gordi (Armin Amiri), who went abroad to film his next project while she was on vacation with Carrie in Greece. Meanwhile, documentarian Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) has come to terms with her recent miscarriage, and Anthony Marentino (Mario Cantone) has opened up (figuratively and… uh… sexually) to her Italian stud boyfriend, Giuseppe (Sebastiano Pigazzi).
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However, polarizing comedian Che Diaz is not returning (Sarah Ramirez) and Nya Wallace, professor at Columbia Law School (Karen Pittman). It was said that Ramírez left when Che’s story has reached a natural conclusion (i.e. their tense breakup with Miranda), while Pittman left the show due to his filming obligations with Apple The morning show and Netflix Forever. “We just moved forward because that’s what happens in New York or in life. Sometimes you see someone who is so important to you and then you don’t see them again for 10 years,” comments King about their departure.
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Che and Nya could theoretically return at some point, if And just like that maintain a longer shelf life. King, however, says he has “nothing on the board” at the moment. “They are still on the same island, but we don’t see them,” he notes. “So we put Che and Nya on a very luxurious boat and said goodbye to them by throwing confetti as they left the shores of the island. And just like that. And we moved forward by introducing new ships, new characters, new ideas.
Some of these new characters include Rosie O’DonnellDear Oteri, Mehcad BrooksJonathan Cake, and Logan Marshall-Green. EW can also exclusively confirm Broadway and Agatha throughout star Patti LuPone will have a story arc in season 3, which will also see Kristen Schaal (Bob’s Burgers). More, Rosemarie DeWitt will return as Aidan’s ex-wife, Kathy. As previously reported, Pigazzi will now be a series regular alongside Dolly Wells, who played BBC producer Joy, suggesting the latter could become a new love interest for Miranda.
“Dating at 50 is an interesting thing,” King teases. “We have married characters, we have single characters, we have characters who are trying to work out their current relationships. It’s kind of a maze as to how you move through the world at this point in your life.
Another novelty? Voiceover. Contrary to Sex and the city, And just like used Carrie’s signature narration only sparingly, usually in the final moments of each episode. King confirms that narration will return in a big way in season 3. “Carrie is writing a new book and voiceover is the way to get into the book,” King reveals. “When we did a voiceover on Sex in the cityCarrie had this insight into everything. She told you what to think and what to feel. For the first two seasons of And just like thatI removed the voiceover because I didn’t think she knew how she felt. She begins to feel things again and to have a sense of where she is in the world. Writing a book is a very private activity and, in an interesting way, it is almost a direct and intimate conversation with the viewer. Maybe there are things she says to the viewer that she wouldn’t even say to her best friends.”
Spoiler alert, there will be no confession about his hiring of Jim Carrey’s lawyer Fletcher Reede from 1997 Liar liar after being hit by a Citi Bike. Yes, it was another fake Thek filming flyer.