Kyle MacLachlan was supposed to return in a since-discarded plotline for And Just Like That, according to Kristin Davis.
On the Thursday, March 6, episode of her “Are You a Charlotte?” podcast, Davis, 60, revealed that in one of the scrapped plotlines for Sex and the City reboot series And Just Like That involved her character Charlotte York-Goldenblatt bumping into her first husband Trey MacDougal, played by Kyle MacLachlan. MacLachlan, however, declined to return.
“[Executive producer] Michael Patrick [King] has this thing where he doesn’t like us to talk about ideas for stories that didn’t happen,” Davis explained. “But I’m just gonna tell you guys that there was an idea that Trey/Kyle would come on And Just Like That, and then it didn’t happen. And so Kyle and I had to talk about it, because I was kinda mad at him. I said, ‘Why didn’t you come on? We wanted you to come on.’”
Davis went on to explain that the Twin Peaks alum had a thoughtful reason behind his decision not to return to the series. “He said, ‘I just wanted it to be amazing,’ meaning that it had a kind of almost a sad note. I think I’m not saying too much. I hope Michael’s not gonna be mad at me. There was a bit of a sad note, but it had this incredible lead up to me seeing Trey again.”
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MacLachlan appeared in the third season of Sex and the City as Charlotte’s stuffy first husband, Trey, her divorce from whom led to the meeting of her second husband, divorce lawyer Harry Goldenblatt (played by Evan Handler).
“When you have played such a wonderful part in the past that people have such a great memory of, and it was so special as a work experience, you want it to kind of stay in this, kind of, glorious place,” Davis said of MacLachlan’s choice to pass on reprising his role as Trey for And Just Like That. “I think he just didn’t want there to be kind of a sad note to the end. So I get that. I get that.”
Davis added that the “thing I love the most” about the episode that never was “is that Charlotte tells the friends that she has not communicated at all with Trey, which is kind of shocking in a way.” The actress noted, “But I’ve never been married, and I’ve certainly never been divorced, so I don’t really know how that works. Do you communicate? Do you not communicate? Is it cool to be friends? Is it not cool to be friends?”
Davis went on to say that her character is “obviously happy with Harry,” saying, “I don’t think it would be a threat to Harry for her to communicate with Trey because of the problems with that relationship also.”
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However, Davis thinks Charlotte has “kind of an unfinished feeling about [Trey] and she really wants to see him,” and she noted that “I, Kristen, also feel that way.”
“I’m hoping that we can kind of revisit a … maybe they run into each other, you know, just at an event or at a restaurant or something like that,” the actress continued. “I think it would be so amazing to have Kyle back on. And I did give him a hard time the other day. And then he explained his point of view, and I did understand it.”
MacLachlan, for his part, exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2024 that he isn’t entirely opposed to a return to the franchise. “Let me get my contract out here. Anything is possible,” he teased at the time. “Anything is possible. Who knows?” He added, “I would be open to a cameo.”
