Kim Cattralls Samantha Jones makes cheeky surprise cameo on And Just Like That Season 3

Samantha Jones is back. In the fifth episode of “And Just Like That” Season 3, fans of the “Sex and the City” spinoff saw Kim Cattrall’s character return with an off-screen cameo, in text form. In the “Under the Table” episode, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is at odds with her downstairs neighbor, Duncan Reeves (Jonathan Cake), who wants her to remove her heels when she’s in her Gramercy Park townhouse, due to the noise they make when she walks around. She eventually learns that he’s a biographer who is working on a book. Cattrall, 68, isn’t in the episode, but there’s a close-up of Carrie’s phone as she reaches out to Samantha via text message, asking her, “What do you know about Duncan Reeves?” Samantha replies, “They say he’s a lot of fun.Why?”Carrie explains, “He’s living under me.” “I wish he was under me,” Samantha quips.Carrie then informs Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), “Hey, Samantha says that Duncan Reeves is known to be fun.” “Well, he’s like 6’5, so that’s her kind of fun,” Miranda says. Cattrall played the brash publicist Samantha Jones from 1998 to 2004, and reprised the role for spinoff films in 2008 and 2010. The original show followed Carrie Bradshaw and her friends Samantha, Miranda Hobbes and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) through dating adventures in New York City. Cattrall notably isn’t in the spinoff show “And Just Like That,” which airs on Max and follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte in their 50s.Her absence from the show comes amid behind-the-scenes cast feud rumors, which SJP has denied.In the world of the show, Samantha and Carrie grew apart after Carrie fired her as her publicist and Samantha moved to London. Cattrall did make a brief cameo in “And Just Like That” Season 2.

That one was onscreen, showing her in the back of a car as she called Carrie. Despite her rumored bad blood with Parker and her fellow former “Sex and the City” cast mates, Cattrall  told t...