Kyle MacLachlan is not keen on reprising his Sex and the City character Trey MacDougal for the show’s reboot, unless there are some major changes to the proposed And Just Like That… storyline.
The saga began when Kristin Davis revealed on her podcast Are You a Charlotte? that she’d love to “have Kyle back on,” because his character Trey was, in some ways, her character Charlotte’s “best match.” Davis described a hypothetical future storyline where “maybe they run into each other, you know, just at an event or at a restaurant or something like that. I think it would be so amazing.”
But, she revealed, he wasn’t into it. “I think he just didn’t want there to be kind of a sad note to the end,” Davis said, “So, I get that.”
Asked about whether he’d be open to returning at SXSW’s iHeartPodcast Awards, MacLachlan shed more light, agreeing with Davis that his character could have been the one for Charlotte. “I thought I was her perfect match and then they brought in somebody else,” he said of Evan Handler’s Harry, who is still married to Charlotte on the new series.
Charlotte and Trey’s marriage came to its infamous end after struggles with erectile dysfunction and fertility issues. “It was sad,” he continued, and he wants a happier ending if he were to ever consider playing the character again.
“I think it would be really fun to return,” MacLachlan insisted. “They had reached out. I just felt that the idea that they had… I wanted a little bit more to it. I wanted the relationship that we had to be a little deeper.”
But he won’t rule out a potential return if the proposition changes. “Maybe they’ll come back with another idea,” he added, and if so, “I’d be game.”
