Kyle MacLachlan seemed far removed from his Sex and the City character, Trey MacDougal, during a television appearance on Thursday.
The actor, 65, played Charlotte York’s first husband on the HBO series between 2000 and 2002, and the character left a lasting memory with fans thanks to his intense mummy issues.
Showing off his thick gray hair, Kyle looked very different from the charming, dark-haired cardiologist he played on the series.
Speaking on This Morning, he admitted that Trey and his mother Bunny should have had their own spin-off show.
Unfortunately, Frances Hussey Sternhagen, who played Bunny, passed away in November; The actor revealed that she would love to explore the character’s life without his beloved mother.
Kyle MacLachlan, 65, seemed a far cry from his Sex and the City character, Trey MacDougal, during a television appearance on Thursday.
He told hosts Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond: “Oh, Trey could come back for sure.” I loved my time on that show.
‘I always felt like Trey and Bunny could have their own show. An apartment on the Upper East Side.
It comes after Kyle revealed he would love to revisit his iconic character Trey and shared his idea for a possible cameo in the spin-off series, And Just Like That.
Following the sad death of his co-star Frances, the actor revealed that he would love to explore the character’s life without his beloved mother.
Speaking about what might happen if Charlotte, played by Kristin Davis, met Trey in a future episode of AJLT, Kyle told DailyMail.com: “I’d like to see some kind of character growth. People change, obviously.
“I think it’s a disaster for writers, because I think the tendency is to try to find something funny, which would be completely inappropriate, and go down that path.”
Referencing a scene in which Charlotte caught Trey pleasuring himself in the bathroom, he continued: “On the one hand, remember, he was a fan of Juggs magazine. So I thought maybe he had married a woman 30 years younger, that she had very big breasts, and this is now her thing. So maybe she hasn’t really changed after all.
“But I would like to think that there was some dynamic, or a world that they could find each other in, and there could be something substantial between the two of them, that would be nice to see.”
The actor played Charlotte York’s first husband on the HBO series, and the character left a lasting memory on fans thanks to his intense issues with his mummy.
He told hosts Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond: “Oh, Trey could surely come back.” I loved my time on that show.’
It comes after Kyle revealed he would love to revisit his iconic character Trey and shared his idea for a possible cameo in the spin-off series, And Just Like That.
And Just Like That premiered in 2021 and saw Cynthia Nixon return as Miranda, Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw and Kristin Davis as Charlotte York-Goldenblatt (pictured by LR)
Despite her brief stint on the show, her character became a fan favorite thanks to quirky scenes that highlighted her mother’s problems, her helplessness, and her complete disregard for Charlotte’s fertility issues.
In season four, Trey brought home a cardboard baby for Charlotte as a prank, a scene fans still tell the actor to this day.
“Some fans say, ‘I can’t believe you thought a cardboard baby would work,'” the actor recalled. “And I said, ‘Listen, I’m right there with you.’
Kyle, who founded Pursued by Bear wines, continued: “When I read that in the script, I went to the writers and said, ‘Is this supposed to be funny?'” I should have known that was the beginning of the script. End of Trey.
Initially, Kyle had found the role “challenging” because he had an “unrealistic expectation” of what the character “would be.”
The actor shared his idea for a possible cameo in the spinoff series, And Just Like That… in which Trey is married to a younger woman with “very big breasts.”
The actor thinks it might be interesting to explore what the character is like without his beloved mother, played by the late Frances Hussey Sternhagen (pictured).
Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker starred on Sex and The City from 1998 to 2004.
The Twin Peaks star recalled: ‘I thought, “Once again, I’m playing an unusual character with strange conditions. I guess I have to accept my fate.”
Although his character’s problems were often dealt with in a comedic manner, Kyle admitted that the fact that the show addressed topics such as helplessness was greatly appreciated by fans.
“When we were working on it, it was certainly a little embarrassing,” the actor recalls. ‘We didn’t have social media at the level we have today, but I was getting responses from people saying these issues are really serious… People were saying “thanks for bringing this up.” It’s something worth talking about.’
He continued: “It seems like there’s really nothing we can’t talk about these days, no problems at all.” Everyone is much more aware and in tune with the fact that people have things that aren’t quite right and it’s okay to talk about them.
“So I think maybe, in some ways, he was a little ahead of his time.”
