Kim Cattrall explores 'the next chapter' of her life in return to television

'Coming back to television has changed so much just since I did Sex and the City'

Kim Cattrall at the Winter TCA Press Tour.Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Kim Cattrall is making a return to television, in a series that sounds Samantha Jones-approved.

The actress will star in and produce Fox’s Filthy Rich, which will follow a Southern family who made their money with a Christian television network. After the sudden death of their patriarch, the family schemes to win a slice of his fortune.

Cattrall, of course, made a name for herself starring as Jones in HBO’s Sex and the City, from 1998 to 2004.

Although she appeared in several series since, she didn’t take on another starring role until 2014’s Sensitive Skin. An HBO Canada dark comedy series, Cattrall starred alongside Don McKellar, who also took on directing duties. The series ran for two, critically acclaimed seasons.

“After Sex and the City, I waited a long time to go back to television,” Cattrall said at the Television Critics Association winter press tour recently, according to People. “It wasn’t until I saw Sensitive Skin that I really wanted to go back to television. I was having a lot of questions about mid-life crisis, about menopause, about what now, what is the next chapter of my life.”

“I’ve never been on network television,” she added, noting how much the landscape has changed. “Coming back to television has changed so much just since I did Sex and the City. I mean we don’t cut any more, we just keep going. Everything is digital, instead of one or two cameras, we have five cameras. You can’t kind of warm up to a close-up. You have to be right on your game all the time.”

On her Filthy Rich character Margaret, Cattrall said, “She’s in her 60s like I am. You’re starting to lose your family members; you’re starting to lose friends. It does bring to question, what now and how much longer? I like to work things out in my work. If I have these questions, maybe other women are having them.”

It seems she’s entirely moved on from her Sex and the City days, having announced in 2019 that she refused to do a third movie, after co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon all signed on, effectively killing the project.

In an interview with The Guardian at the time, Cattrall explained, “I went past the finish line playing Samantha Jones because I loved Sex and the City. It was a blessing in so many ways, but after the second movie I’d had enough.”

On to filthier pastures.

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