Apart from whether Tony lived or died at the end of The Sopranos, there may be no longer-running HBO-related enigma than whether or not Sex and the City 3 will ever hit theaters. The stars of the franchise — Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Kim Cattrall — have been asked about whether or not there’ll be another reunion for Carrie and the gang pretty much every time one of them promotes a project since Sex and the City 2 came out. Who’d have guessed, then, that it’d be Jennifer Hudson to break the non-story of another sequel?
In a radio interview, Hudson, who played Carrie Bradshaw’s personal assistant in the first Sex and the City movie, said that she’d recently heard about a script in development. “Somebody just came to me talking about that,” said Hudson. “So if it’s in the talks, it might happen. So look for it.”
This is hardly a confirmation, though; “if it’s in the talks, it might happen” is, as this self-styled Sex and the City 3 prognosticator knows, more or less what Parker’s been saying for years. This year, she said, “We’ve never really had real conversation about it, other than that I know there is a story.” In 2013: “I’ve been saying… there is one more story to tell. If it is, in fact, the right time and the right place, maybe we should tell it.” In 2011: “I think there’s one more story to tell. I know there is.” Parker’s tweets at Davis, her castmate, that were taken by some as a sign the movie was coming, can be read in this light as jokes about just how much “news” a potential third movie has been generating for four years without an inch of film shot.
@SJP Miss YOU XOXOXO!! <3 pic.twitter.com/UyZGtM2LaV
— Kristin Davis (@KristinDavis) October 3, 2014
@KristinDavis Me too you! Heard the news? X