Kim Cattrall reveals she turned down Sex and the City 4 times for a surprising reason

And just like that, Samantha nearly wasn’t in “Sex and the City.” Kim Cattrall, 68, who starred as Samantha Jones in “Sex and the City,” told The Times of London in a profile published Thursday that she originally turned down the role four times because of “self inflicted ageism.” At the time, she was 41 and didn’t think audiences would find a woman that age sexy, she explained. “Well, that changed — 40 became sexy.It became, ‘Man, let’s have more of that,’” she quipped. Cattrall played the brash publicist Samantha Jones from 1998 to 2004, and reprised the role for spinoff films in 2008 and 2010. The original show followed Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), and her friends Samantha, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) through dating adventures in New York City. “She wasn’t a nymphomaniac — well, some people might have thought she was — but she was just enjoying the main course,” Cattrall said about Samantha. “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.”She added, “But, I’m the antithesis of her [Samantha] in many ways.I’m a serial monogamist, and then some.”Cattrall notably isn’t in the spinoff show “And Just Like That,” which is now in Season 3 on Max, following Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte in their 50s, sans Samantha. Her absence from the spinoff comes amid behind-the-scenes cast feud rumors, which SJP has denied – but Cattrall did make a brief cameo in “And Just Like That” Season 2. In the years following “Sex and the City,” Cattrall hit the UK stage, in plays such as a revival of Noël Coward’s “Private Lives” in the West End of London with “Succession” star Matthew Macfadyen.“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,” Cattrall said, referring to Samantha. �...