Kim Cattrall

She is the most beautiful and the best actress of that silly series.

"The television role which made her famous is the epitome of female emancipation."

Such utter and complete bullshit. She's a slave to dick. She wants it and needs it and craves it like a junkie needs smack.

She's the exact opposite of "female emancipation."

R2 how is that different than most DLers?

R2 OP uses AI for these ridiculous threads.

R4 I do not!

Samantha was actually the kindest character on the show. She had more heart than those other 3 bitches put together.

R6 I agree

Who said it wasn't, R3? Besides, the topic at hand is the alleged female liberation of the characters in SATC, not the sexual proclivities of the denizens of DL.

Besides, I always maintained Samantha was simply female embodiment the series gay male creator, Darren Star and head writer, Michael Patrick King, another gay male.

With the possible exception of Miranda, the other three characters sole purpose in life is to bag a man. They all consider themselves failures if they don't have a man in their lives.

Any woman who reads "Bride" magazine is not liberated in any way, shape or form.

R8 I agree, kind of.

Samantha just likes sex, but she doesn't live for a man the way Carrie or Charlotte do.

She was the most interesting character by far. She wasn't just about the sex, you could see she'd overcome a tough childhood, she was self-made and didn't take crap.

Underneath that we did get beautifully played moments of vulnerability, self-doubt, regret, hurt and confusion. Kim was great at making a caricature more human.

Kim was also beautiful and got hotter as the show went on.

She's beautiful but what I really love about her is her voice.

She's an ungrateful bitch!!

This interview is a true delight

“400 years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word "sabotage."

Kim on Graham Norton!

You need to learn more from your SAT vocab. Epitome doesn’t mean what you may think it means, Op.

R1, I agree. And had the best story arc

I hated her voice. Ugh. Worse than carrie’s baby voice.

She’s fabulous, would’ve loved to have seen her take on Demi’s part in The Substance.

Kim was serviceable in the role but she was obviously channeling the raw sexuality, confidence and sensual power of Sharon Stone.

She IS Kim Cattrall!!

r8 what is wrong with reading bride magazine.

Love her in Mannequin

Her character was such a caricature - which I guess many shows have.

But I remember Christina Aguilera imitating Samantha on SNL - and it really drew out how insane her speaking voice and mannerisms were on that show.

I get it - you had the prude and there needed a counter-balance to that. She actually did 90% of the sex in SATC.

But it felt so forced and fake. It was entertaining but over the top and ridiculous at a certain point.

R22 = JLo.

R24 Like most American shows, the characters become caricatures of themselves because of lazy writing and acting.

In many ways Samantha Jones is the finish line that Marlo Thomas started: the single woman - with her own career and aspirations- owning her space and being an equal to men, if not better. Imagine if Marlo, or Mary or Rhoda or Tina could have been that free and in control. Deep down in their hearts that what Harriet Nelson, Donna Reed, and Barbara wanted. So I think Kim Cattrall spoke a powerful voice for women to be themselves. But what these young women who love her don't get is that to be Samantha you have to work hard, have your own money and space, and feel equal. You aren't using sex to catch a man but to pleasure yourself.

My sister thinks she is just a gay man character written in a woman's body. I am gay and even I couldn't be that sexually free.

[quote] Imagine if Marlo, or Mary or Rhoda or Tina

Who the fuck is Tina?

We did one movie together.

Her character Samantha was hilarious.

R29 Call girls. How quaint.

Her characteristic snigger wore on me quickly.

There's a fabulous episode (Hot Child in the City) where Samantha handles PR for some spoiled little sluts Bat Mitzvah and she overhears a bunch of girls talking about giving bj's at 13. Sam is shocked, concerned and grateful she had a real childhood and it all registers beautifully on Kim's face. She gave Samantha much more depth than what was in the script.

I always thought she outclassed Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristen Davis, and Cynthia Nixon

Kristen Davis was the Rose Nyland on that show.

[quote] “I don't think there has ever been a woman on television who has expressed so much sexual joy without being punished."

Um, the writers gave her cancer.

Her character on the Sex and the City show was getting simply gross as the writers made her sexually depraved. I don’t blame Catrell for quitting.

There have long been rumors she had some nude photos on the bridge of the Enterprise. Spock found that illogical so he had the photos destroyed. Supposedly.

Best actor on the show hands down. wouldn’t do latter sequels she was over it.

I'm sorry Kim gave in and made the second movie. I wish she had tossed the script as soon as she got to Lawrence of my labia.

Later.

"what is wrong with reading bride magazine."

Bridezilla wannabes in the making.

Just because you think this is the most important day in your pathetic existence doesn't mean the rest of the world has to feel the same way.

Men don't read "Groom" magazine. At least I hope not. 😬.

Bitch, ya know?

I was sad the first movie ruined the Smith character. He was so kind, when Samantha slept with Richard one more time Smith was waiting for her.

R45 he was the same in the movies as the series. He worked hard and loved Sam but she had moved past him. He let he go with love

Who the fuck is Tina?

Always thought the hags were the wrong way round - that rancid Italian shopping-bottom was more that Yenta’s style rather than that frigid white woman.

And that mumsey bald one was definitely a DataLounger…

And they made Kim the lezza? Not the ginger one?

R49. Both Charlotte and Miranda had minor lesbian storylines but neither actually went clam digging. While Sam caused her partner to squirt in her face. Carrie was a prude. A girl kissed her during a game of spin the bottle and she was clearly not happy about it.

r37 A lot of US shows end up with characters who are "flanderized' as the show goes on. It is annoying. This is why I never like Samantha.

r42 Given the cost of weddings, I don't see the problem in having that magazine to plan. Are you serious?? As far as groom magazine--- men generally don't plan their weddings--- outside of gay men.

R49 I stand corrected.

But those fags. Sheesh!

r42 bride magazines existed before the internet/blogs to give women advice on weddings. I think planning a wedding before an engagement. But most weddings cost like car or sometimes college education. It is worth the investment.

R54 - what's worth the investment - a wedding, a car, a college education or a bride magazine?

What's so unique about weddings that hasn't been written about a million times over online? It's a fucking party - get a venue, invite some people, buy some clothes, decide on food, flowers, and a band. Boom - done!

Overthinking it and focusing on the small details that no one fucking cares about is what drives people crazy and the bills up.

Tina Fey

She was excellent in the Canadian version of the late mid-life crisis series Sensitive Skin.

Weddings.

The number of schmucks that continue to throw money away on something as silly and wasteful as a massive wedding just launch me onto a crazy train of insanity.

SATC really jumped the shark when Samantha went lezzie. It was not believable, especially coming from a horn dog that loved cock.

r55 The cost of a bride magazine pales in comparison to the actual cost of the wedding. There are now online forums to help people plan. But before then bride magazines helped. Even if you have a micro wedding, the magazine is a minor cost or investment.

[quote] SATC really jumped the shark when Samantha went lezzie. It was not believable, especially coming from a horn dog that loved cock.

When I look at the original episodes of SATC, Miranda is really pinging.

R60, it's not the COST of the magazine. It's the entire Bridezilla / frautastic ridiculous spectacle, which includes Bride magazine.

I don't think you understand.

r62 You don't have to be a bridezilla however to be interested in the whole wedding planning is my point.

You don't understand, R63.

SATC jumped the shark when Big chased after Carrie after marrying Natasha. HBO has been airing a lot of their old series lately and they showed the entire SATC series a few weeks ago. Seasons one and two were great. After that, it was all about the clothes and Carrie being a cunt. The Aiden episodes are painful to watch because she treated him like garbage and he took it. Then he came back for more. Also, the writing was just plain sloppy.

Down to earth (by celebrity standards), and decent taste in movies to boot!

She was a great comedienne. One of her best episodes is My Motherboard, Myself, a great episode for all of the characters and probably peak SATC.

It’s the episode where she tries “to find” her orgasm. It’s a hilarious episode for SJP as well, and Nixon of course excels as we learn that Miranda’s mother has died. Charlotte swings into action and is hilariously sent up as well.

Cattrall’s Samantha was that rare character who was sexually active and driven by not only without being punished for it but also by being funny with it, while being in on the joke.

She should have won an Emmy for her appearance as Sharon Kellerman in Charlie's Angels "Angels At The Altar".

r64 I do. You are an idiot.

She was also in the failed Bonfire of the Vanities. She played Tom Hanks' materialistic and wafer thin wife.

Quite medium tits.

R80 that was going to be a breakthrough for her. She was fine—everything else about that movie was a disaster. Great books often make bad movies. That one failed all around.

R70 ^

So, she is a DL fav?

Kim Cattrall's Closet Picks!

Great Taste:

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Repulsion

Wanda (1970)

Heave Can Wait (1943)

Limelight (1952)

Nashville (1975)

Jules and Jim (1962)

A Taste of Honey (1961)

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

I like her because she said fuck you to fakery. We all spend so much of our lives pretending, but when she had enough of it, she had enough and said so quite clearly.

R76 SJP thinks her shit doesn't stink and Kim called her out on it.

I think she is just average looking but when acting with SJP or Cynthia Nixon she is the clear winner.

Kim was the best actress on the show but Michael Patrick King had no vision for the character and that got worse and worse over time. Samantha was unrecognizable by the second movie. She was supposed to be a sophisticated cosmopolitan woman and they had her acting like she never heard of conservative Islamic mores & rubbing yams on her hoo-ha

Again in the minority here but there is no one more fake than Kim Katrall. As mentioned, she started her career in a Preminger movie, so she knew Isabelle Hupert from back then. Please listen to the podcast they made a couple years ago where Kim’s narcissism becomes clear (it is supposed to be a mutual interview but Hupert barely speaks).

Katrall is at her most passive agressive self: she tells, in a mealy mouthed voide, how she was exploited in the series as a bomb sex personna that had nothing to do with her , and in the next sentence flounces her books of sex after a certain age. Also, her supposedly reluctant cameos in And Just Like That evidences her thirst.

Having said all this she is decidedly a fine actress and also not as crazy as SJP, who is a millionaire who fits shoes tp flag her brand.

What about her irritating voice in SATC, though? So mannered. Yes, I realized these women were supposed to be cartoon-ish, but that was too much.

In the battle between Kim and SJP I don't think there's a winner. Kim lost credibility when she made the second movie. Did she not read the script? Did she take the money and not care how they turned Samantha into a dirty joke? SJP came from nothing and supported her entire family on her Annie paycheck. She turned Carrie Bradshaw into an empire and you gotta admire her for that. She would have had a nice career without SATC but she wouldn't have the wealth.

Kim is just so much prettier, classier, and more elegant than SJP.