Kim Cattrall Shares How She Feels About Being Remembered For ‘Sex and the City’

Fans of “Sex and the City” were heartbroken when Kim Cattrall announced that she wouldn’t be reprising her role as Samantha Jones for the “And Just Like That” revival. But Cattrall made it clear that she didn’t like the direction the character was heading. “I made my feelings clear after the possible third movie,” she told Variety in 2022.

“As difficult as it was, and as scary as it is to stand up and not be bullied by the press or the fans or whomever — to just say, ‘I’m good. I’m on this track,'” she added. “‘It was so great working with you. I so enjoyed it, but I’m over here.'”

Three years later, she seems to have softened her stance even more. She’s always professed to loving the character she created, but in an interview with The Times of London, she took it a step further.

Kim Cattrall Reflects on ‘Sex and the City’ Legacy: ‘I Put a Lot of Love In It’

“I created a fantastic character that I loved, and I put a lot of love in it,” she told the Times. “And if I’m remembered only for that, then that’s really OK.”

Cattrall, 41, when the show started, admits that she didn’t take the part right away. When she was offered the role for a fifth time, she finally agreed to take it. But she had her doubts that viewers would want to see a ‘sexy’ forty-something woman.

“Self-inflicted ageism,” she joked. “Well, that changed — 40 became sexy. It became, ‘Man, let’s have more of that.’”

The “How I Met Your Father” star felt proud that she created a sexually liberated, powerful, successful woman; despite any negative traits some applied to Samantha.

“She wasn’t a nymphomaniac — well, some people might have thought she was — but she was just enjoying the main course,” she insisted. “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.”

Kim Cattrall Says Her Real Personality Is the ‘Antithesis’ of Samantha

Cattrall insists that Samantha was just a character, and her real personality is much different. “I’m the antithesis of her [Samantha] in many ways,” she told the Times. “I’m a serial monogamist, and then some.”

After “Sex and the City” ended, her quest to disengage from Samantha found her on the stage in the UK. “One of the things that was so attractive about coming to work in the UK was that they saw an actor. In America, they saw her [Samantha],” she said. “And in America I was perceived as a woman of a certain age, whereas in England I was perceived [simply] as a woman.”

Currently, she’s costarring in the second series of “Central Intelligence,” a BBC Radio 4 production. She plays real-life CIA agent Eloise Page, along with the narrator.

Even though Cattrall has been married three times, she can relate to Page. She told the Times that Page “didn’t have children, she was never married, her job was her life … And I think she was completely fulfilled and happy.”