Kim Cattrall loved fattening up for film role

Kim Cattrall loved fattening up for film role
Kim Cattrall loved fattening up for film role (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Kim Cattrall says she relished packing on weight for her new film, as she's been watching what she eats for so long. The 54-year-old Sex And The City star had to gain 20lb to play a retired porn star in Meet Monica Velour and reveals on The Graham Norton Show (Friday, BBC One) she loved pigging out after having watched what she ate for more than 35 years. Kim said: "It was a stretch for me - literally a stretch as I had to gain 20lb to play this character... it was fantastic!" She added: "I have been on a diet since 1974 so this was time for me to eat. God I love to eat, chips and crisps and puddings. Oh, it was amazing." British-born Kim is famous for playing stylish, image conscious Samantha in Sex and The City, and revealed she enjoyed not looking her best for the film. She said: "I had no make up on and my hair was just as I got out of bed. I am known so much for looking just one way - that sort of Barbie doll perfection look that Sex And The City promotes - so it was fantastic for me to get to play a real person." Kim admitted the role of Samantha was hard to shake off and she was pleased to try something different. She said: "It's hard. People think you are that character and it follows you." And of the character's raunchy sex scenes she said: "I tell people, 'You have seen Samantha nude, not me nude.'"

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.