With And Just Like That… returning to our screens via HBO Max, it feels right that Kim Cattrall should, too, get back in on the Sex and The City action.
The revival series is currently airing with stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis all reprising the roles that catapulted the group to superstardom in the late ’90s and early ’00s.
Bar a small cameo in the season two finale, Cattrall has not re-teamed with Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte on the streets of New York in the new show and confirmed she won’t be appearing in the third installment. Reports of a long-running feud between Parker and Cattrall have dominated Sex and The City headlines for years following the 2008 and 2010 movies.
However, in a new interview with U.K. outlet The Times, Cattrall is revealing a few tidbits about her connection to the iconic character of sex-positive publicist Samantha Jones.
In the feature published on Thursday evening, the 69-year-old Liverpool-born star said she turned down the role four times, believing that at 41 she wouldn’t be seen by audiences as sexy. “Self-inflicted ageism,” she told the paper. “Well, that changed — 40 became sexy. It became, ‘Man, let’s have more of that.’”
The British-Canadian-American actress continued: “[Samantha] wasn’t a nymphomaniac — well, some people might have thought she was — but she was just enjoying the main course. Everyone else was nibbling on the appetisers when she was going for the steak.”
“And it was always on her terms — that I always insisted on.”
Despite such a celebrated performance, Cattrall, who has been dating BBC audio engineer Russell Thomas since 2016, added that she is not much like her character in real life. “I’m the antithesis of her in many ways. I’m a serial monogamist, and then some.”
The six seasons of the show, that ran from 1998-2004, saw the women battle tumultuous love lives, sex problems and professional hiccups while strengthening their own friendships. The popularity of the show has only increased since its addition to streaming services like Netflix, which broadcast the pinnacle of nineties NYC glamor to a younger, Gen Z audience.
Cattrall was talking to The Times about the second season of Central Intelligence, a retelling of the founding of the CIA in which she stars opposite Ed Harris and Johnny Flynn.
New episodes of And Just Like That… are dropping weekly on HBO Max and on Sky in the U.K.
