Fake Filming Notices About Carrie Bradshaw Dating Mr. Bean Upended the ‘And Just Like That…’ Shoot
The third season of the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That… will reportedly premiere later this year, which is good news for fans of the franchise and terrifying news for Peloton shareholders.
We know that Season Three will include some big name additions to the cast, including Rosie O’Donnell and Cheri Oteri. Now, executive producer Michael Patrick King has confirmed that the cast will also include Broadway star Patti LuPone, who hopefully won’t spoil every detail about the show before it airs.
Up until this point, the most info that we’ve gotten about And Just Like That… Season Three has been from filming notices that were posted around New York City. As we mentioned at the time, these notices contained eyebrow-raising episode descriptions, including how Carrie Bradshaw will reveal that she is, in fact, Garfield the cat. Another notice claimed that Carrie will get hit by a Citi Bike, and hire Jim Carrey’s Liar Liar character Fletcher Reede as her lawyer.
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Perhaps most memorably, one flier described a future episode in which “Carrie goes on a bad date with Mr. Bean (the character) and then accidentally sends him a nude.”
Disappointing fans who were hoping for erotic plot lines involving sexagenarian British comedians, it was revealed that the filming notices were totally fake, and created by Brooklyn writer Kat Thek, who had previously posted bogus fliers warning visitors of the New York Botanical Garden to look out for “human remains” because “criminals have historically taken advantage of the corpse flower’s pungent bloom.”
The And Just Like That… fliers were such a hit that Thek was unable to replicate her own success with additional fake filming notices for Spider-Man 4, and an episode of Young Sheldon in which Sheldon “goes back in time to stop Jimmy Fallon from being born.”
The fliers also, apparently, disrupted the production of the real And Just Like That… to some extent. Entertainment Weekly recently asked King if the production was aware of the viral notices. “Of course we were aware of them!” King responded. “I think it got us thrown off a location or two.”
King didn’t elaborate as to how exactly the fake notices endangered their location work. Perhaps some establishments assumed that the real crew were merely pranksters? Regardless, he wasn’t upset too about it, and noted that he’d rather put up with goofy Garfield-based pranks than have “no energy” around the show at all. “What I love is when what you’re working on becomes an interactive art piece with the world,” King explained, “everything from the fake locations and people’s plot points that they decide to write, all the way up to the memes. Anything that continually creates energy around the show is fantastic.”
Sadly, he also confirmed to EW that Carrie won’t be sending any nudes to Mr. Bean. At least not in this season.
