So I approached her with boundaries and when I got there and she really was arms open wide with me and was so gracious and loving and tender and sweet on set, it was like smelling the sweetest perfume. And I didn't want her to feel unsafe around many of us. 'You think about how the world receives them and feels like they have ownership to them. 'When you think about an icon, you think about boundaries,' Way says.

Way expected her to be unapproachable, but was pleasantly surprised that, hey, icons: they're just like us. And then to find out that she was so much better than that, she was so much more.' 'I met her and had all these projections of who I thought she was going to be. It was magic,' Way says of first meeting Cattrall.

'It was like waking up on Christmas morning and seeing a bunch of presents underneath the Christmas tree. I mean, clearly she avoided filming And Just Like That, so.' I feel like people are realizing that, based on her iconic interviews lately. 'She's like, I don't know, she's just really f-ing cool. 'Samantha Jones had been acting as a surrogate mother for me for so long that it only made sense that she became my real TV mom,' O'Connell tells EW, referring, naturally, to Cattrall's iconic SATC character. QUEER AS FOLK - Episode 102 - Pictured: Kim Cattrall as Brenda - (Photo by: Peacock)