“If you only remember me for that, then it's very good”: Kim Cattrall has nevertheless refused this cult role 4 times! – News series

If Kim Cattrall regularly turned for the big screen in the 90s (especially in the pyre of the vanities of Brian de Palma in 1991 or suspect memories of John Dahl in 1997), his most famous role of the end of the decade – and even of her career, to date – is undoubtedly the one she held in the cult series of a whole generation: Sex & The City.

In this series created by Darren Star and broadcast from 1998 to 2004 on HBO, she embodied there alongside Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis the hilarious Samantha, uninhibited business woman with very active sex life. The series will also be closed by two feature films released in 2008 and 2010.

“I created a fantastic role”

A role that has largely made its glory. In a recent interview with TimeKim Cattrall, however, reveals that she declined the role no less than four times before giving in. The reason? A form of self-censorship and internalized egism, fearing that being 41 years old disqualifying it to embody a New York-Safe New York and the fulfilled sex life.

“Things have changed, now being 40 years old has become sexy. […] Samantha was not nymphomaniac even if some people could think that it was “ said the actress to the Times. “She only appreciated the main dish. All the others nibbled the appetizers as she was attacked in the steak.” She adds : “I am his opposite in many ways, I am a series monogamous”.

“I have created a fantastic role that I like, and if you only remember me for that, then it's very good” continues the one who had refused to resume her role in the series and Just Like That, before giving in the time of a cameo in season 2 of this sequel to Sex & The City. In 2024, some were caressing the idea of ​​a crossover between Samantha and Emily in Paris, the heroine of Netflix. That is to say how much Kim Cattrall has not been finished with his iconic character …