The Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall feels "marginalised" as an actress.
The 54-year-old says that she finds it very hard to win roles at this age.
Casting directors are reluctant to hire her for roles that are radically different from her Sex and the City character Samantha Jones.
"Nobody wants to hire me unless I'm playing Samantha Jones. Do you know what it's like to be 54 and marginalised? It doesn't get any easier as you get older," quoted the actress .
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Striking it big in an epic role as a character with many fans is the dream of many struggling actors, but as Kim Catrall can tell you, typecasting can be a frustrating business.
So much so that the actress has fled to England, where she says it’s far easier to work and not be seen eternally as the tough-talking, man-eating Samantha Jones off Sex and the City. 54-year-old Catrall says that she has a few irons in the fire in the UK, free of her Samantha connections:
“In England they aren’t interested in casting me as Samantha. Across the pond they see me as an actress who plays many roles, so I am interested in continuing to work in television and I have a project with the BBC which I am producing,” she told PopEater.
Catrall says that it’s not the first time in her long career she’s struggled with shaking off a theme or genre:
“My early career was supporting my theatre habit and there was no way I could pay a loan, never mind my rent on what I was making in theatre,” she explained.
“Movies became a way for me to do that and I didn’t take it quite seriously.
“For basically four or five days’ work in Porky’s I made enough money to live over an eight month period. I needed the money, I was broke and I made that choice for survival. I didn’t want to go back and be a waitress again.”
Among Catrall’s new SATC-free roles was playing an aging porn star in Meet Monica Velour, a role for which she put on 20 lbs. She gushes:
“They asked me to gain 30 but I didn’t want to make myself sick,” the 54-year-old star said. “We made a deal saying I would gain 15 lbs. before the film and 5 lbs. during. But I did enjoy grabbing my stomach and feeling what that extra weight felt like.”
