Samantha Jones: podcast appearances and interviews

Samantha Jones is a fictional character created by Candace Bushnell. She first appeared in Bushnell's newspaper column Sex and the City, published in The New York Observer between 1994 and 1996, and was later featured in her 1996 book of the same name. Loosely based on one of Bushnell’s real-life friends, Samantha is depicted as a confident, sexually liberated woman in her forties who frequently engages in non-monogamous relationships. The character was adapted for the HBO television series Sex and the City, which aired from 1998 to 2004, where she was portrayed by British-Canadian actress Kim Cattrall. Cattrall's performance earned her two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe Award. She reprised the role in the feature films Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010, and made a cameo appearance in the Max series And Just Like That... in 2023. Samantha also appears in Bushnell’s young adult novels The Carrie Diaries and Summer and the City, which were later adapted into the television series The Carrie Diaries, broadcast from 2013 to 2014, with Lindsey Gort portraying a younger version of the character.