How And Just Like That Gave Stanford Blatch The Perfect Send-Off Following Actor Willie Garson's Passing
17.08.2023 - 20:11
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And Just Like That has officially bid farewell to Willie Garson‘s beloved character Stanford Blatch.
As Perezcious readers know, the actor tragically passed away two years ago following a secret battle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 57.
Willie had been filming the first season of the Sex and the City reboot when he died. During the first few episodes, Stanford and his husband Anthony Marentino (played by Mario Cantone) split up. To make up for Willie’s sudden absence, Stanford then moves to Asia to manage a TikTok star. Since then, Anthony has struggled to move on, but on Thursday’s episode, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) offered up an important update in hopes of helping him. The scene also seems to serve as the character’s final send-off.
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In the episode, Carrie reveals she received a letter from Stanford, who was no longer managing the young star after they got into an argument. She shares:
She explains Stanford has found a very unexpected new job:
Aw!
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Anthony then wonders, “Why didn’t he tell me this himself?” Per Carrie, Stanford is afraid to tell Anthony in case he mocked his newfound happiness. Sad! Instead, he started all the paperwork for a divorce, she notes:
The fact that Stanford could move on leaves Anthony “stunned” considering he’s struggled to do the same, even though the show introduced a new love interest for him in an Italian poet named Giuseppe (Sebastiano Pigazzi). Getting a bit teary, Anthony achieves his own peace, saying:
The friends then share a toast to “Stanny,” and Carrie says she’d like to “keep the photo” of her BFF since she’d grown “very attached” to the