Now that the “Sex and the City” movie is out, it’s time to profile the lovely Kim Cattrall, who plays the role of sexy middle-aged vamp Samantha.
Kim Cattrall sat down and chatted with journalists to discuss how it feels to return to Sex and the City, why she originally turned the movie down a few years ago, what Samantha means to her, and how she overcame a number of personal challenges in between the series and the movie.
Kim Cattrall on why she returned to Sex and the City now after she turned it down four years ago:
“What a difference four years makes. I mean, I look back on four years ago and my life was so completely different. First of all, the Sex and the City job was coming to an end, which was really tough, and I was going through a divorce, and because I was on a TV show, that sort of became a headline. And I’d gone through one other divorce, which was really painful, but I did it in a private way, but this was very, very public. And after playing this character, suddenly I was single and I wasn’t really ready for that, and then my dad was diagnosed with Dementia. So, it was a hell of a year, it was a bad, bad year. And I think about that time as just kind of sad.”
Cattrall on how she got through such a tough time:
“Well, I think I did the smartest thing possible, I went home to Canada and I felt that I had spent so much time with my Sex and the City family, with my work family, that to go back home and just kind of be with my family was the best the medicine and what I needed. I also think that all of us were exhausted from it, you know. We had done so many 19-hour days. And when we weren’t doing the show, we were promoting the show, and we were so into it. It wasn’t like we were feeling anything other than, ‘Wow, this is what we love to do!’ But it does take its toll on your home life, because you’re just not there - you can’t be, your head’s somewhere else. So at the beginning of this whole talk about it coming to fruition again, and Michael Patrick King calling me and saying, ‘I have a script. I have a gorgeous script. You know, the ideas that we had four years ago are not going to work, but I think I nailed it.’ And reading the script and saying, ‘You nailed it and them some!’ It was like, ‘Wow!’ It was sort of like an episode or the end of the movie. It has that kind of fairytale feeling to me because it was like a second chance at a different kind of ending.”
Cattrall on what Samantha means to her:
“I think she helped me get through my forties because when I started the show I was forty-one and, actresses especially, they always accuse Hollywood of ageism. But I found that I was doing that to myself because I was really questioning at the age of forty-one if I could indeed play a woman who was that sexual. Could I still make the vamp real? I’m not kidding, this was a true concern of mine and would it be more than just a one-dimensional character, and is this just about the jokes. And Darren Starr said to me, ‘No, no, no, these characters are going to evolve, and that’s the great thing about being in a series is that you have the time to tell these stories,’ and I had ever done series before. So he kept his word, that’s what came to pass. And I think it got deeper and it got richer and also people started to look differently, I think, because of shows like Sex and the City, differently about forty.”
Cattrall on the scenes in the movie that reflect her strength:
“Oh, there are so many scenes, it’s so difficult. I just have to say when I was in the screening room and I watched the opening credits, I mean I just got kind of those chills where you feel, ‘Wow, not only we did this, it’s real. It’s happening!’ I just thought all the story lines were so beautifully realized. And again, you’re kind of in a bubble doing your lines, your scenes, so watching the movies of my three co-stars, the movie they made, not just the movie that we made together, it was wonderful. I thought that David Eigenberg was wonderful, so touching.”
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