Kim Cattrall bored of Samantha Jones

Kim Cattrall is getting fed up!

The 54-year-old star says playing Sex and the City‘s Samantha Jones has left her typecast in Hollywood and led her to find work on independent movies and on the London stage.

“It’s the North American world view,” explains Kim. “I think that’s why, for the last six years, it’s been really important for me to get out of town. Nobody here wants to hire me unless I’m playing Samantha Jones. I love playing Samantha, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t want to play a tailor-made copy of her every time I’m in a movie. I did it already.

“This is a youth-worshipping society, and it’s really tough to be thought of as anything more than what you are. What the industry was giving me was pretty crappy so when I get offered roles in the West End to act with terrific people in theatre, what do you think I’m going to go for?”

Kim recently revealed that she enjoyed taking a break from her usual healthy eating plan to pig out and gain weight for her role as a retired adult movie actress and single mother in movie Meet Monica Velour.

“I had to eat and not exercise, which is a pretty great,” says Kim. “I had milkshakes, bread, pastas just everything I could possibly want.

“I could eat fast food or I could eat a really great steak. I just went on and on and I didn’t have to go to the gym and I didn’t have any guilt because it was for my work.”