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 Kim Cattrall
Spotlight By: Andrea Tuccillo Kim Cattrall put the ‘sex’ in Sex and the City with her fearless portrayal of the seductive Samantha Jones who preferred falling into bed over falling in love. Cattrall won a Golden Globe for her work on the hit HBO series back in 2003 and was nominated for an Emmy consecutively from 2000 to 2004. Now the fan frenzy surrounding Sex and the City: The Movie proves she’s still bringing the heat. After four years away from the breathy, bed-hopping Samantha, you might think it was hard for Cattrall to get back into character. After all, she was almost unrecognizable in the 2007 television movie My Boy Jack, where she played Daniel Radcliffe’s World War I-era mother. She even went brunette! But in fact, it was easy for Cattrall to slip into Samantha’s sultry ways when the time came. “We were at the read through and I think we were all kind of nervous,” she says. “After the second or third page it was like we were back home. It was fun.” Cattrall knows her character backwards and forwards, which gives her the freedom to improvise. Director Michael Patrick King let her try new things and stray from the script to get the most natural dialogue and movements. “The things for the physical kind of comedy that I do, if I do something naturally or say something naturally, Michael is always listening, so he’ll say ‘Do that, Incorporate that,’” she says. “Like all the dialogue laying on the table was pretty much improvised. Michael has always allowed me the freedom, especially in the physical comedy. He sort of writes something like ‘Samantha falls on the bed’ and then I invent a way that hopefully she’s never fallen on the bed before just to make it my own. But that’s just been the challenge that he sets these really high bars for us and we get over them.” The only problem with playing a character so well is that fans automatically believe you’re that character in real life. But Cattrall’s used to all that by now. “People so associate you with a character on a TV series, especially one that has lasted as long as this,” she says. “Not just on DVD and on TV but also in the hearts and minds of people, it seems, so there is that, there is an expectation. This character that I have lived with for so long that has this amazing passion for life and for me, I much prefer that to playing a manic depressive for 10 years, so I see this as an appendage. It comes with the territory.” Something that also comes with the territory? Keeping tight-lipped on the movie’s secrets. Cattrall and her cast-mates are under strict orders to give anything away. “It’s so difficult, especially in interviews,” she says. “I’m finding it over the last three days is that people say, ‘Well what did you think of the storyline?’ or ‘What did you think of ... |
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