Kim Cattrall: It’s the perfect time to get back together

May 20 2008 by Emma Johnson, Liverpool Daily Post

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“I'm really proud to be part of something that allows that to happen. In the series, Samantha always lied about her age and here you see her at the beginning of the film, she’s given up her home city, she’s given up her business, she’s starting all over again, as a sign of faith to be monogamous to this man (boyfriend Smith Jerrod).”

That Kim returns to the subject of age is interesting, particularly given that success came relatively late in life for her.

Born in Mossley Hill, Kim moved to Canada, aged one, only to return to Liverpool 10 years later. A keen actress, she trained for a year at Lamda, in London, before returning to the States where she graduated from the famous American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

She trod the boards for a while until the TV and film roles began trickling through. She played the lead in 80s comedy Mannequin and a highly sexed high school teacher in the cult film Porky’s as well as a Vulcan in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country but never quite hit the big time.

Then along came Samantha Jones. In 2003, Kim picked up a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the PR woman and the same year, released a sex manual entitled Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm (written with her then husband Mark Levinson), yet she says she struggles to match her alter-ego’s confidence.

“I think in some ways Samantha has certainly given me a platform to talk to women about specific things – sexuality being top of the list,” she reveals. “But I have moments of incredible insecurity. I’m deeply flawed and human, and that’s what I think makes these characters interesting because they are, too.”

One thing Kim and Samantha do have in common, though, is younger men. After years of playing the field, Samantha is with twenty- something actor Smith and three-time divorcee Kim has been dating 28-year-old Canadian chef Alan Wyse since 2004.

She recently admitted: “When I started dating my younger man, I first of all felt very much like Samantha. I think a lot of women feel it, what can I talk about? How is this going to work? But that has never been a problem.”

As for the future, despite all the upheavals getting this film made, Kim is hopeful that we have not seen the last of Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha.

She says: “You know I’m so superstitious. I really want the film to be a big success because I think that we made it for the right reasons – I think the script is really good and the performances and the direction is really great – but ultimately you never know, you just never know.

“People might see it and think it’s beyond their expectations or they might see it and say ‘Oh, I preferred the series’. You just don’t know.

“Our fans are incredibly faithful and they’ll see it to get over the shock that it exists, someone told me this last week in London. She said ‘I’m just going to see it because I know it exists and then I’m going to see it and memorise everything that I saw . . . ’

“I hope it does lead to more. I don’t know though.”

* SEX and the City the Movie opens on May 28.

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emmajohnson@dailypost.co.uk