‘And Just Like That’ finale was reportedly going to include Chris Noth’s Mr. Big. He was cut.

Warning: This text incorporates some main spoilers from HBO Max’s “And Simply Like That” finale.

“And Simply Like That…” the “Intercourse and the Metropolis” reboot has come to an finish (for now).

The finale of the HBO Max present, which dropped on Thursday, was reportedly imagined to characteristic a fantasy scene between the just lately widowed Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Chris Noth’s character Mr. Large, who died from a coronary heart assault after driving a Peloton within the collection premiere. The dialogue was to happen as Carrie spreads Mr. Large’s ashes in Paris, Selection reported.

Nonetheless, Noth was lower from the scene.

The finale comes nearly two months after a number of ladies got here ahead with allegations of sexual misconduct. He has denied all accusations. “The accusations towards me made by people I met years, even a long time, in the past are categorically false,” Noth stated in a press release in December.

Within the finale, Carrie hears Mr. Large’s voice in a dream.

“So, um, Large got here to me. In a dream final night time,” Carrie tells Charlotte and Miranda the following day, earlier than explaining her plans for spreading his ashes in Paris to mark the the one-year anniversary of his demise. “I do know the place he needs to be: Paris. Our bridge.”

Towards the tip of the episode, viewers see Carrie in Paris, clad in a superb orange costume, tearing up whereas spreading Mr. Large’s ashes over the aforementioned bridge.

In an interview with Selection revealed this week, showrunner Michael Patrick King stated he can’t touch upon the allegations towards Noth. Nonetheless, when requested about slicing Noth’s picture from the finale, he stated he “needed the present to be centered on the tales of those wonderful actresses and their efforts in these final 10 episodes.”

“And I didn’t need all the story to be about whether or not somebody was or wasn’t within the present,” he stated. “Mr. Large and Chris Noth, they’re not the identical individual — and that will’ve made them the identical individual.”

Parker, Cynthia Nixon, who performs Miranda, and Kristin Davis, who performs Charlotte, issued a press release following the accusations again in December.  

“We’re deeply saddened to listen to the allegations towards Chris Noth,” they wrote in a shared assertion posted on Nixon’s Instagram account. “We help the ladies who’ve come ahead and shared their painful experiences. We all know it have to be a really tough factor to do and we commend them for it.”

HBO Max declined to remark to NBC Information relating to the inventive alternative made within the finale. A spokesperson for King didn’t instantly reply to NBC Information’ request for remark.