And Just Like That Season 3, Episode 6, Recap: Sarah Jessica Parker Has Some Surprising Thoughts About Kathy and Aidan

I can’t wait to see what fans have to say about it. Some will be confused why she’s not more upset with him, but I thought Carrie handles it so maturely. I’m so curious to see how this will land.

Yeah, I am too. It’s interesting when she’s thinking out loud, like, “I can see how that could happen.” It’s a very, you could say, cerebral response. Like, theoretically, she understands that and is trying to almost distance herself from a more visceral reaction. The visceral reaction comes a moment later. I would argue all this time she’s been a “good girl.” She’s been playing along. She’s been pivoting every time he changes the rules. “Okay, you’re going to call me?” Okay. I guess we’re talking on the phone. We’re doing phone sex. “Oh, surprise, you’re in my house?” Okay, I guess we’re doing that. “Oh, you’re going back to Virginia?” I guess I’m okay with that. “Oh, suddenly I’m in Virginia? I’m being invited over?” Oh.

You get more of a window into her actual anger about what she’s been doing. It’s not a total combustion. We’ve got more episodes coming your way. But what I liked both as a fan and as the director was seeing her finally be able to push back a little and say no. It’s almost like, “I agreed to a lot, but not that. Let’s think about for a minute what you asked of me.”

Exactly.

As actors, they’re both so good at really listening in the moment and being able to think about it in different ways as they discovered the scene. Obviously, John and Sarah Jessica have been working together for, what, 25 years? So it felt like a catharsis, and Carrie and Aidan were able to get somewhere new after that conversation. They finally had a real conversation. After Aidan confesses and Carrie doesn’t lash out at him, it almost felt like he wanted more…like he wanted to be spanked or yelled at.

The opposite of what he thought she’d do.

Right. And just him standing there…we talked about whether they ever sit down? I really liked that they were trapped there with each other with no armor. No one’s holding a glass of water. No one’s fidgeting with anything. We wanted them really alone with this situation.

They’re talking about this real thing, the elephant in the room that they haven’t been talking about. That thing where you want to pretend something didn’t happen a long time ago, and then you have to face it. How different is it going to be now than back when she cheated on him? They’re different people now.

Very different people. Same chemistry, but very different people. Going forward, what can you tease as we see the fallout?

I’ll just say, keep watching. We were all there for the first series. I mean, not all of us literally. There were different writers, some writers, some old ones. But we made very conscious decisions based on everything we know. If you’re playing along at home, you’ve known these people for a long time. Some we’ve known longer than others, but everything comes into play.