--- title: Kim Cattrall Wants Ellen DeGeneres in Sex and the City 3 description: Kim Cattrall seems to be on board with Ellen DeGeneres replacing her as Samantha Jones in a potential third Sex and the City movie. canonical: https://time.com/5110200/sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall-ellen-degeneres-samantha/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-19T20:01:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:54.139Z og:title: Kim Cattrall Says Ellen DeGeneres Would Be a 'Fabulous' Samantha og:description: Sarah Jessica Parker suggested DeGeneres for the role og:url: https://time.com/5110200/sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall-ellen-degeneres-samantha/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea4a5d7451ebfdb1/6988f8d5929fad4299bef4a1/kim-catrall-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: kim-catrall-ellen-degeneres og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Cattrall Says Ellen DeGeneres Would Be a 'Fabulous' Samantha twitter:description: Sarah Jessica Parker suggested DeGeneres for the role twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea4a5d7451ebfdb1/6988f8d5929fad4299bef4a1/kim-catrall-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kim Cattrall Says Ellen DeGeneres Would Make a 'Fabulous' Samantha in _Sex and the City 3_ > Sponsored content. 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There is no cost and no subscription requirement.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 19, 2018 8:01 PM UTC  Kim Cattrall and Ellen Degeneres Kim Cattrall and Ellen Degeneres Getty Images (2)  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 19, 2018 8:01 PM UTC [Kim Cattrall](http://motto.time.com/4359624/kim-cattrall-insomnia/) seems to be on board with [Ellen DeGeneres](http://time.com/5087675/ellen-degeneres-on-eric-trump-tweet/) replacing her as Samantha Jones in a potential third [_Sex and the City_](http://time.com/4846970/candace-bushnell-on-carrie-big/) movie. After Sarah Jessica Parker — who played sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw in the beloved series — jokingly offered the role of Samantha to DeGeneres during a Wednesday appearance on _Ellen_, Kim Cattrall took to Twitter to throw her support behind the idea. “She’d be fabulous!” Cattrall wrote, adding two thumbs up emojis. Unfortunately, after years of back-and-forth over the status of _SATC 3_, it appears a final romp with the fab foursome may not be in the cards. “It’s over… we’re not doing it,” Parker told [Extra](http://extratv.com/2017/09/28/sarah-jessica-parker-confirms-there-will-be-no-sex-and-the-city-3/) in September. “I’m disappointed. We had this beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, joyful, very relatable script and story. It’s not just disappointing that we don’t get to tell the story and have that experience, but more so for that audience that has been so vocal in wanting another movie.” > [](https://twitter.com/KimCattrall/status/953742174817931266) Parker’s announcement was followed by a [report](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4929412/Kim-Cattrall-causes-studio-shelve-Sex-City-3.html) that the project was delayed due to demands made by Cattrall — an allegation the 61-year-old actor shot down. “The only ‘DEMAND’ I ever made was that I didn’t want to do a 3rd film….& that was back in 2016,” she tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/KimCattrall/status/913712496237776897) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5110200/sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall-ellen-degeneres-samantha/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5110200/sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall-ellen-degeneres-samantha/"},"headline":"Kim Cattrall Says Ellen DeGeneres Would Make a 'Fabulous' Samantha in Sex and the City 3","datePublished":"2018-01-19T20:01:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:54.139Z","description":"Sarah Jessica Parker suggested DeGeneres for the role","url":"https://time.com/5110200/sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall-ellen-degeneres-samantha/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","movies","celebrities","Ellen Degeneres","TV","sex and the city"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea4a5d7451ebfdb1/6988f8d5929fad4299bef4a1/kim-catrall-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea4a5d7451ebfdb1/6988f8d5929fad4299bef4a1/kim-catrall-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"kim-catrall-ellen-degeneres","caption":"Kim Cattrall and Ellen Degeneres","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5110200/sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall-ellen-degeneres-samantha/","name":"Kim Cattrall Says Ellen DeGeneres Would Make a 'Fabulous' Samantha in Sex and the City 3"}}]}] ```