In a city of millions of stories, one of the boldest ones almost didn’t get told — because Kim Cattrall nearly said no to her role in “Sex and the City.”
Cattrall portrayed Samantha Jones — the sex-positive, PR powerhouse with a Rolodex of lovers and even quicker wit — in the hit TV series “Sex and the City” and its cinematic spin-offs. But this force of nature almost never made it to our screens. While chatting with The Times of London on June 12, Cattrall revealed she initially passed on the part “four times,” citing what she called “self-inflicted ageism.”
But she said that shifted when “40 became sexy.”
“[Samantha] wasn’t a nymphomaniac — well, some people might have thought she was — but she was just enjoying the main course,” she added. “Everyone else was nibbling on the appetizers when she was going for the steak. And it was always on her terms — that I always insisted on.”
But in her real life? Cattrall told the Times that she saw a lot of herself in her character.
“I’m the antithesis of her [Samantha] in many ways,” she said. “I’m a serial monogamist, and then some.”
When HBO Max revived the series in 2021 with “And Just Like That…,” Cattrall stood firm as the lone original lead who didn’t return full-time, though she did offer fans a fleeting cameo in the Season 2 finale. Her absence was felt, but her stance was clear, as she told “Today” in 2023, “This is as far as I’m going to go.”
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