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Sex and the City 3 was going to 'kill off Mr Big'

Devastating: Carrie Bradshaw and Mr Big: HBO
Devastating: Carrie Bradshaw and Mr Big: HBO

Mr Big was reportedly going to be killed off in the third Sex and the City film.

The charming lothario who finally settled down with Carrie Bradshaw after years of commitment issues would have allegedly faced death by heart attack.

The third instalment would have followed Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, as her character coped with the devastating loss, according to James Miller who spoke to Mr Big’s Chris Noth for his Origins podcast.

Noth said he was keen to get on board a third film as the script was “superior” in comparison to its “sentimental and overly romantic” prequels.

Iconic: Miranda, Carrie, Samantha and Charlotte in Sex and the City
Iconic: Miranda, Carrie, Samantha and Charlotte in Sex and the City

The plot would have seen him suffer a heart attack in the shower “relatively early” on, which is reportedly why Kim Cattral, who played Samantha Jones, was not keen to star. The actress reportedly feared the plot would focus solely on Bradshaw to the detriment of Samantha, Miranda, played by Cynthia Nixon, and Charlotte, played by Kristin Davis.

Miller said: “People close to Kim believe that the script for the movie didn’t have a lot to offer the character of Samantha.” He said Big’s death would have made “the remainder of the movie more about how Carrie recovers from Big‘s death than about the relationship between the four women”.

Cattrall and Parker were embroiled in a furious spat earlier this year with Cattrall branding Parker “cruel” and ruling herself out of any future Sex and the City projects.

Cattrall also claimed she had a “toxic relationship” with the other stars on set and told Piers Morgan she felt Parker could have been “nicer”.

Speaking to Miller, Parker said she tried in good faith to get Cattrall on board, but that she can’t “force” her to star.

“I had many, many, many conversations with her manager where I was told, ‘She’d love to hear from you,’” said Parker. “I e-mailed her, I tried to reach out to her and say like, ‘We want you part of this. You’re an integral part, of course you are. I hope when you read this script you’ll see the beauty, the joy, the heartbreak in it that I see, that we have seen.’

“But I can’t force her to see it, but we did negotiate through the process and ultimately the studio said, ‘We can’t meet those asks of hers’.”

Sex and the City followed four 30-something friends in 90s New York as they navigated dating. The first film was a box office success and saw Bradshaw stood up on her wedding day to Big. The second instalment was widely panned.