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Kim Cattrall Turned Down ‘Sex And The City’ Role 4 Times Due To “Self-Inflicted Ageism”
It might seem impossible to imagine anyone other than Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones, but the now iconic character initially took her some convincing.
The Golden Globe winner recently revealed that she turned down the part in HBO ‘s Sex and the City four times before signing on due to “self-inflicted ageism” over being 41 in such a sexually confident role. Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall in ‘Sex and the City’ Max Based on Candace Bushnell’s New York Observer column, Sex and the City ran for six seasons on HBO from 1998 to 2004, followed by two theatrically-released feature films in 2008 and 2010, as well as the CW prequel series The Carrie Diaries(2013-’14).
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