Ever since the feud between Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall went from tabloid rumour to confirmed fact, their co-stars have been quick to cast their votes for team Kim or team Sarah. While Chris Noth refused to be drawn into the drama, instead giving the interviewer some serious side eye and rolling up his car window, Mr Big-style, one fellow love interest was more forthcoming: Jason Lewis, who played Cattrall’s boyfriend Smith Jerrod (the ‘Absolute Hunk’) on the show.
Speaking on Los Angeles news station KTLA 5 on Wednesday, Lewis begun diplomatically enough, expressing the age old sentiment ‘if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.’ However, once he was drawn on the subject, he chose to praise SJP, rather than Cattrall, saying: ‘Listen, I would have to say that Sarah was always just so lovely and such a consummate professional, and I think that people should remember their graciousness and the things that have been given to them, and I’m going to stop there because I’ve got nothing good to say.’ When asked to confirm once and for all if he was team Sarah, he conceded, saying: ‘ I might just have to say yeah. What a gracious lady; she was always so good to me.’
While rumours that Cattrall and SJP were far from friends have been around for years, both actresses had done their best to deny any bitchiness, until Cattrall explosively called out Parker on Instagram a few weeks ago. Following the death of her brother Chris, Cattrall received an outpouring of love and support from her former Sex and the City co-stars, but she publically shot down Parker’s efforts in an Instagram post that said: ‘I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time. Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So, I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.