Chris Noth Had To Be Convinced To Suit Up As Mr. Big Again For The "Sex And The City" Revival After Some "Creative Negotiation"

    Mr. Big will definitely be back, though. Swear on Chanel.

    Emily Mae Czachor
    by Emily Mae Czachor

    BuzzFeed Staff

    With Sex and the City fans already reeling over Kim Cattrall’s absence from the revival series, many welcomed last month’s news confirming that Chris Noth — AKA Mr. Big — would be involved in the upcoming project.

    Chris Noth and Sarah Jessica Parker are photographed on the set of "Sex and the City"
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    But the actor's inclusion in HBO Max's reboot, And Just Like That…, wasn't always a sure thing.

    Chris Noth is pictured wearing a tuxedo in this still image from "Sex and the City"
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    After playing the recurrent love interest to Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw throughout SATC's original six-season run, and then reprising his role as Big in the rom-com series' two spinoff movies, Chris said he was "hesitant" to step back into the character again.

    "It was a little bit of a sort of creative negotiation because I didn't really feel I had anything to offer in that role again," he told Yahoo Finance Live in a recent interview. "It kind of felt like I had done it."

    Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth stand on a staircase while filming "Sex and the City"
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    "But [executive producer] Michael Patrick King is just an incredible writer and has incredible creative ideas, and once we got together and talked about the potential of what we could do with the character, I was all in," Chris said.

    While it's unclear how exactly much we'll be seeing of Chris onscreen when And Just Like That... eventually airs, the show's EP clearly recognizes that he's an integral part of the SATC franchise. "How could we ever do a new chapter of the Sex And The City story without our Mr. Big?" said Michael, sometimes known as MPK, in a press release.

    Of course, nothing fills the Samantha-shaped void that Kim left behind when she decided against a return to the SATC universe. But it's still nice to know that most of the show's veteran faces, Mr. Big's included, will be there for its next encore.