Three seasons into And Just Like That…, one beloved Sex and the City character has yet to make a return, despite the show’s best efforts.
Kyle MacLachlan recently admitted he “would love to come back and have fun” on the HBO Max reboot as Charlotte’s (Kristin Davis) Waspy ex-husband Trey MacDougal, but he wasn’t sold on the writers’ original idea for his return.
“And what they suggested to me, I said, ‘I think there should be more,’” MacLachlan explained to Us Weekly. “So I just said, ‘I wonder, if the relationship that Charlotte and Trey had demands a little more than their first idea.’”
Debuting the character on Season 3 of Sex and the City in 2000, Trey is a cardiologist who is seemingly Charlotte’s perfect match, quickly getting married and starting their life together on the Upper East Side. But their marriage soon starts to unravel due to Trey’s erectile dysfunction, his overbearing mother’s surprise pop-ins and Charlotte’s infidelity.
As for what Trey would be up to during And Just Like That…, which premiered in 2021, MacLachlan has some ideas.
“It’d be very interesting,” he said. “I had suggested that Trey has maybe moved to Napa and has a very successful winery and label there — you can see where I’m going with this. But no, I actually haven’t said anything yet. Regardless, the show’s doing great. They’re all lovely. And I adore them.”
Davis previously admitted on her Are You a Charlotte? podcast that she “was kind of mad” at MacLachlan for passing on the writers’ idea, which she felt symbolized Charlotte’s “unfinished feeling” about their divorce.
“She really wants to see him, and I, Kristin, also feel that way,” she added. “So I’m hoping that we can kind of revisit a ‘maybe they run into each other just at an event or a restaurant or something like that.’”
Davis said, “I did give him a hard time the other day, and then he explained his point of view and I did understand it. 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 glorious place, and I think he just didn’t want there to be kind of a sad note to the end. So I get that.”
