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Long Live Samantha Jones

Through six seasons and two movies of <em>Sex and the City</em>, no love story could supersede the one in which Samantha was the object of her own affection.
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Last year, a clip of Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall sitting across from Piers Morgan went viral. In the most heavily circulated snippet of the interview, the 61-year-old actress tells Morgan about the intra-cast turmoil that influenced her choice to not reprise her role in the SATC franchise:

We’ve never been friends. We’ve been colleagues, and in some ways it’s a very healthy place to be, because then you have a clear line between your professional life and relationship and your personal. To get any kind of negative press about something that I’ve been saying for almost a year of “no,” that I’m demanding or a diva. And this is really where I take to task the people from and specifically Sarah Jessica Parker, is that I think she could have been nicer. I really think

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