Sarah Jessica Parker, who famously portrayed Carrie Bradshaw in each Intercourse and the Metropolis and its reprise collection And Simply Like That, is opening up about her resolution to finish the present.
“It was a really robust resolution,” Parker mentioned in an October 2 interview on CBS Mornings. “I’m undecided what that call means ’trigger I might simply be on hiatus. But it surely was a tough resolution.”
She added, “I believe Michael [Patrick King] thought rather a lot about it. And I believe it’s out of respect for this singular skilled expertise that you must take into account what you wish to do and have you ever finished it. And typically it’s greatest to gracefully stroll away when issues really feel actually proper and energetic. As an alternative of compressing and exploiting individuals’s generosity and hospitality.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter this previous August 2025, King mentioned “I actually do need individuals to know that this was about telling these tales and bringing them to a spot the place there was a end. And by ‘end,’ I imply an open-ended end, the place every of the characters’ lives might proceed and you would be ok with it for all of them. It’s what you wish to write now that we’re finished. We’re finished writing.”
King additionally emphasised the expansion of Carrie Bradshaw, throughout each of the enduring collection. “Who Carrie was on the finish of Intercourse and the Metropolis and who she is on the finish of And Simply Like That is somebody who has had nice progress, nice life expertise.”
“Now she’s able to say the very stunning sentence, ‘Perhaps simply me,’ which she says to Charlotte in that stunning scene the place Sarah Jessica was simply so emotional about saying that.”
Most significantly, Parker bought the ending she desired. “Depart a celebration whereas it’s nonetheless enjoyable, proper?” King mentioned. “You possibly can hear it in her Instagram… that tone in her voice is such a goodbye. It’s so stunning.”
The reflections from Parker and King present followers with perception into the cautious thought behind ending the collection, honoring each the characters and the legacy of Intercourse and the Metropolis.
The collection left followers shocked when the present abruptly ended on August 14, 2025. Viewers bought to say one final goodbye to Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), marking the shut of an period for the beloved characters.
