While watching And Just Like That, we couldn’t help but wonder: where is Aiden? John Corbett, who plays Carrie Bradshaw‘s ex-boyfriend, revealed he would be making an appearance, but after the 10 episodes aired on HBO Max, he was no where to be found.
While appearing on Andy Cohen‘s Watch What Happens Live, Sarah Jessica Parker was filled in on what the actor said.
“So he said all that…” Parker began.
“In jest?” host Cohen asked.
“It was fun. It was fun for him to say that,” she said. “When he actually reached out, very kindly, because he’s nothing if not a gentleman, and apologized for doing that as a joke, and then I was like, ‘No, no, no, it’s a free country first of all.’ And I thought it was kind of delightful and kind of fun.”
If you’re an Aiden fan, then there could be good news on the horizon. If And Just Like That gets renewed for another season, Parker would love to have him back.
“Having said that, I think he would be … I mean, I’m not going, yes, all of it’s possible,” Parker said when asked if it would be a doable.
In an interview from April 2021, Corbett said, “I’m going to do the show,” adding that it was “very exciting” to be reprising his role.
“I think I might be in quite a few [episodes],” he shared. “I like all those people, they’ve been very nice to me.”
However, HBO Max never confirmed his involvement.
“The fact of the matter is, we never said anything about Aidan, just like we never said, Steve and Carrie are getting together,” creator Michael Patrick King added. “We always try to be very restrained and look at the reality of what people are experiencing and it has nothing to do with Aidan coming or not coming. It really just felt like this was a lot for Carrie. This season was a lot. We wanted to get her through this and into the light — the last episode is called, ‘Seeing the Light.’ We wanted to get her out. [Aidan’s return] is a big storyline that everybody at home wrote that we had never intended.”
