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Willie Garson‘s absence in the rest of And Just Like That has been explained by a new plot twist in the show. The star, who played Carrie Bradshaw’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) best friend Stanford Blatch in the original series, passed away in September while the series was still filming in New York.
The new storyline came during the fourth episode of the Sex and the City revival, which dropped today on HBO Max. Carrie was back in her old Upper East Side apartment after finally selling the one she shared with late husband Mr. Big (Chris Noth). While she was there, she noticed an envelope resting by her bed, and after opening, it was revealed to be a goodbye letter from Stanford.
“Dearest Carrie, by the time you read this I’ll be in Tokyo. I couldn’t tell you — not without crying,” the letter read in part. “And you have had enough crying.”
Stanford’s husband (and best friend of Charlotte) Anthony Marentino (Mario Cantone) was not far behind at the door, sharing a few details as he blasted Carrie for taking up cigarettes again.
“You’re smoking?” Anthony prodded.
“Stanford’s in Japan?” Carrie fired right back.
“That’s Ashley,” he explained. “The 17-year-old Long Island TikTok star he manages. She’s huge in Asia. She asked him to go on tour with her. I do not get her, but then I’m old, gay and not Japanese.”
“Well fine, good, sayonara,” Carrie said. “But why the dramatic note? ‘By the time you read this, I’ll be in Tokyo.’ Who is he, the lost Bronte sister?”
Even though Carrie was upset by the loss of her friend, she was still angered that he wouldn’t share his good news with her. And, sadder news, it appears he also wants a divorce from Anthony.
“Still, you know, if something good is happening in one of my friends’ lives — and I’m assuming he considers this good — I want to know about it,” Carrie said. “No matter what is going on in mine. Good news or bad, I want to know.”
Garson died in September at the age of 57 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The entire cast rallied around the star to memorialize the star, remembering all the good times shared on the Sex and the City set.
“It’s been unbearable,” wrote Sarah Jessica Parker. “Sometimes silence is a statement. Of the gravity. The anguish. The magnitude of the loss of a 30+ year friendship. A real friendship that allowed for secrets, adventure, a shared professional family, truth, concerts, road trips, meals, late night phone calls, a mutual devotion to parenthood and all the heartaches and joy that accompany triumphs, disappointments, fear, rage, and years spent on sets (most especially Carrie’s apartment) and laughing late into the night as both Stanford and Carrie and Willie and SJ.”
And Just Like That drops new episodes every Thursday on HBO Max.
