Kim Cattrall is beginning to resent her "Sex and the City" role

[Brian Damage]

The 54-year-old star says playing Sex and the City‘s Samantha Jones has left her typecast in Hollywood and led her to find work on independent movies and on the London stage.

“It’s the North American world view,” explains Kim. “I think that’s why, for the last six years, it’s been really important for me to get out of town. Nobody here wants to hire me unless I’m playing Samantha Jones. I love playing Samantha, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t want to play a tailor-made copy of her every time I’m in a movie. I did it already.

“This is a youth-worshipping society, and it’s really tough to be thought of as anything more than what you are. What the industry was giving me was pretty crappy so when I get offered roles in the West End to act with terrific people in theatre, what do you think I’m going to go for?”

Kim recently revealed that she enjoyed taking a break from her usual healthy eating plan to pig out and gain weight for her role as a retired adult movie actress and single mother in movie Meet Monica Velour.

“I had to eat and not exercise, which is a pretty great,” says Kim. “I had milkshakes, bread, pastas — just everything I could possibly want.

“I could eat fast food or I could eat a really great steak. I just went on and on and I didn’t have to go to the gym and I didn’t have any guilt because it was for my work.”

http://www.showbizspy.com/article/23...tha-jones.html

[Reverend Jim]

[Dr. Thong]

I feel so badly for Miss Cattrall. She achieved great success in her chosen field, made great money and received fan attention and critical acclaim.

Maybe when she read the script, she should have considered the ramifications of taking on such a character. It's not like she was a naive starlet in her early 20s when she agreed to be on Sex And The City.

I'm getting tired of whiny celebrities who have it so good, but still feel the need to complain about their lot in life.

And yes, I see what she's saying about Hollywood being youth-centric and how it's harder for actresses past a certain age to get work, but it's always been that way. Hopefully she saved her money from the SITC days and invested it well.

[robyrob]

she needs to shut up and go back to her pudding commercials.

[OH Nuts!]

I too take a dim view of stars who hit it big on a series, and then whine about being typecast. When you're a REALLY DROP DEAD great actor you can rise above it. Meantime, I bet the many ultra-talented folks in show biz, who have not gotten their breaks or good luck of being in the right place at the right time, would give their right arm for a hit series.

So boo hoo for her.

[ekkostar]

Samantha is the only character I do like from SATC, she's like some amazingly awesome hybrid lovechild of Blanche Devereaux and Dan Fielding. All the other girls on the show are whiny and boring.

[TV Knowledge Fan]

...her earlier TV appearances, including the one that was supposed to make her a star in 1980: the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" movie, "The Gossip Columnist", a potboiler about "Dina Moran", a young woman who reluctantly becomes a Hollywood gossip columnist...or that 1979 "TRAPPER JOHN, M.D." episode, where she's the daughter of this Middle-Eastern potentate who's practically "forced" onto Dr. Gonzo Gates [Gregory Harrison] as a reward for his medical assistance?

I've rarely seen "SEX AND THE CITY", and let me tell you something: Kim is damn lucky to find a role like that, at least once in an actress' life span. Now, if I were a producer, would her track record influence me enough into hiring her for my next project? NO. She needs to improve her acting skills before she'd ever work for me!

[Schmoopie]

Originally Posted by OH Nuts!

I too take a dim view of stars who hit it big on a series, and then whine about being typecast. When you're a REALLY DROP DEAD great actor you can rise above it. Meantime, I bet the many ultra-talented folks in show biz, who have not gotten their breaks or good luck of being in the right place at the right time, would give their right arm for a hit series.

So boo hoo for her.

I completely agree with this. I mean, I'd be flattered if I were best known for a particular role. To me that says that people embraced the character and grew to love her. Sure actors/actresses want to branch out and do other things, but they should be grateful for the role that made them famous. I'm sure there are tons of actors/actresses who got their big break in a particular role-one that people remembered them for-and if future roles aren't that great, I think it still makes them creditable.

The only problem I would see if if people start coming up to a celebrity and calling them by their most famous character's name. I mean, I know enough to differentiate between the actor and the character.