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KIM Cattrall is proud to look stunning at 53 – but confesses she hates being judged by her age.

The super-toned Sex And The City star says she prefers the way she looks now to how she did at 25.

Kim, whose parents left Liverpool for a new life in the US when she was a baby, says she has not succumbed to the plastic surgeon’s knife, so far. “I don’t think ‘Not for me’, I just don’t know yet,” she says.

“But this adage ‘She looks good for her age’ … Why can’t I just ‘look good’?” the actress fumes in Easy Living magazine, explaining the phrase is a “pet peeve” of hers. Asked if she would like to be 25 again, Kim replied: “God, no. No, no, no. I had a good time but I don’t want to be 25, and I don’t want to look that way, either. I like the way I look, and I like the way I feel.”

She is about to star in a West End production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives opposite Matthew Macfadyen, 35. She says: “People keep asking, ‘How do you feel about your leading man being so much younger?’

“I think, ‘You would not be asking that question if it was the other way around and Matthew was in his 50s’.”
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One of the more unexpected screen appearances so far this year comes in “The Ghost Writer,” when Kim Cattrall turns up in director Roman Polanski’s new film as an aide to a disgraced British prime minister. Cattrall had an extensive movie career before starring as Samantha in the “Sex and the City” series, but many of those roles were in light comedies like “Baby Geniuses” or “Mannequin.” To see her in a political thriller, speaking with a British accent and playing a woman whose sexuality is as covert as Samantha’s is overt, is initially shocking.

As it turns out, Cattrall was born in England (and raised in Canada), and is currently back in her birth country appearing on stage in a revival of Noel Coward’s play “Private Lives.” Cattrall said she has been following local politics, “reading about the tough times Gordon Brown is going through,” a reference to England’s current prime minister and the successor to Tony Blair, clearly a model for the politician character played by Pierce Brosnan in “The Ghost Writer.” Asked how British politics differs from the American version, Cattrall said, “the Brits are more used to shenanigans.”

Cattrall said she isn’t a political junkie (”I don’t have the time for that”) but allowed that she follow the news, including the U.S. health care debate and the way “socialist” has become a dirty word in some circles. “I grew up in Canada, which is basically a socialist country,” Cattrall said. “That word socialism has gotten a bad rap. It’s akin to commie, or close to it.”

In “The Ghost Writer,” much is made of the fact that Brosnan’s character was an actor before becoming a politician. Cattrall was asked if she saw parallels between the two professions. “I think there is a representational part of both of those jobs and a public fascination with both of those jobs,” she said. “It’s difficult to be private in both of those jobs. I became an actor to act. I didn’t become an actor to be asked political questions.”

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Shutter Island got all the ink last weekend. So I’m here to remind you not to forget about The Ghost Writer, which opened in limited release around the country on February 19. In my review I called it a “well-made, sleekly retaliatory, pleasurably paranoid tale” — which goes along with my old colleague Peter Travers’ declaration that the movie “ties you up in knots of tension.” Much of that tension has to do with the fraught intersection of political power, covert agendas and operations, and capitalism: Ewan McGregor plays a journalist hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of Pierce Brosnan as a former British Prime Minister. (The PM’s name is Adam Lang, but it might as well be Not Tony Blair.) The book ought to make everyone some money. Trouble is, the original hired ghostwriter inconveniently died a drowning death. And the more the replacement “ghost” (as the scribe is consistently called) investigates the PM’s early life, the more dangerously foggy the tale becomes. Polanski, ever the master of unsettling detail, signals that murk in the color of the skies, as well as in gestures as tiny the swipe of an electronic key card or the futile brushing of beach debris from the deck of a seaside house. (The filmmaker recently won the award for Best Director at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.)

Based on a thrilled by Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer is a grown-up story with bite, consequence, and current-events resonance — to which the filmmaker adds his own Hitchcockian taste for stories about overmatched individuals in a forboding world. That POV, in turn, liberates the cast to concentrate their performances, rather than having to play broad and swing for mass-market popularity. As a result, everyone does superior work, from Brosnan and McGregor in the big roles to Timothy Hutton, Tom Wilkinson, James Belushi, and nonegenarian Eli Wallach in a sharp, small cameo.

And then there are the women. Ah: A fine sexual current always runs through a good Polanski film. Olivia Williams, recently seen as the encouraging, clear-eyed teacher with high hopes for her pupil (Carey Mulligan) in An Education, plays the PM’s wife — a political force in her own right who clearly knows a lot, hides a lot, and puts up with a lot, especially regarding her husband’s personal-assistant-and-then-some, Amanda. Amanda! As Kim Cattrall plays her, in pencil skirts and clicking high-heeled pumps, we instantly know that Amanda is a fiercely loyal guardian of her employer’s privacy — and, well, there’s surely something else going on between the two. I love how Cattrall conveys that Something Else with none of the cartoon-y, bedroom-eyed leers she invented for Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones. Instead, using the British accent she can claim by rights of her UK birth, Cattrall creates an entirely new kind of powerful woman-behind-the-power.

More, please. And while we’re at it, I’m now hungry for more taut, mid-sized adult thrillers like this one. You, too?

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Sex And The City maneater Kim Cattrall is putting her cougar days behind her.

The 53-year-old screen siren may be on the prowl for a new boyfriend, but has reportedly told pals she’s over her attraction to younger men.

The actress, who plays promiscuous blonde Samantha Jones in the hit TV series, split from her last beau – 30-year-old Alan Wyse – last year.

‘Kim is through with younger men – now she’s on the hunt for an older, more mature man. Kim still believes in true love, and she wants to marry again. But with Alan, Kim felt more like a babysitter than a girlfriend – and they had ferocious fights over marriage and kids.’

It is claimed that while Kim was looking to settle down, Alan wasn’t ready to tie the knot.

‘The bottom line is that she wants a serious, grown-up relationship now,’ said a source.

Although the three-times-married star helped popularise the term ‘cougar’ – an older woman who preys on younger men – with her onscreen character, she has reportedly pinned her own relationship troubles on the sizeable age gap between her and Wyse.

‘Since Kim and Alan split, she’s been besieged with offers from guys young enough to be her grandsons,’ the source added. ‘She’s flattered, but not interested. She put her friends on notice that if they want to play matchmaker, she’ll consider only dates who are close to her age or older.’

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The edgy one from Sex and the City is in the West End in Private Lives. But do Samantha and Noel Coward mix?

So, where does Samantha Jones end and Kim Cattrall start? Has the 53-year old actress ever felt herself blurring into the vivacious, voracious character she has played, on and off, for more than a decade? “No. Never. It’s such a clear definition,” she shakes her head. “Totally clear. It ends when they say ‘cut!’” Really? To the casual observer, there have been plenty of times since Sex and the City exploded all over our screens in 1998 when it has been tricky to draw a line between the actress and the fictional Manhattan man-eater.

As Samantha sauce-potted her way around New York, bedding toy-boy models and millionaire executives, dispensing X-rated advice over brunch and, as a naked human sushi platter in one of the movie’s funniest scenes, “getting wasabi in places you should never get wasabi,” Kim was busily racking up her own column inches. There are her three marriages, the book, Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm, she wrote with her third, now ex-, husband Mark Levinson and her latest, now defunct, relationship with Alan Wyse, a chef 20 years her junior. Then there are other appearances which deliberately play on her glamazon/siren image: the Nissan advert banned in New Zealand for being too risqué (“I’ve just had the ride of my life…”); a television documentary, Sexual Intelligence, which saw her dancing with glee on the 26ft phallus of the Cerne Abbas giant; her semi-naked publicity campaign to save Diana and Actaeon for the nation (cue “Nice Titians, Kim” headlines); and, my favourite, her guest spot on Sesame Street where she proclaimed the “word on the street” to be (what else?) “fabulous”. So Samantha, darling.

There’s a hint of Samantha, too about her upcoming film roles – as the formidable PA (and mistress) to the prime minister in the Robert Harris thriller The Ghost and as a fading glamour girl in Meet Monica Velour. First, though, is a run on the West End stage as fiery divorcee Amanda in Private Lives. Given the hysteria which tracks her every step in Manhattan, I wonder whether she’s experiencing a similar reaction over here. “I don’t really feel like they’re reacting to me because they don’t know who I am,” she corrects me, stiffly. “They’re reacting to projected images, and my work – not to me. It’s a little overwhelming. The thing I really love about London is that I can merge a bit”.

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Kim Cattrall has claimed that she would have been “fine” without Sex And The City.

The 53-year-old star – who bagged her role as Samantha Jones in the series at 42 – insisted that although the show was her big break, she could have been happy without finding fame in the hit drama.

“If it hadn’t come along I think I’d have been alright, too,” she told The Independent. “I’d have a really good, strong, journeyman actress career. That would have been fine.”

Cattrall went on to reveal that she nearly passed on the script when she first read it, dismissing it as a “miserable” woman and several other people she “didn’t care” about.

Despite eventually agreeing to the series, Cattrall explained that her reluctance to take on projects is because of the huge commitment most entail.

“When you sign a contract to do a series, you’re effectively signing away six, possibly seven, years of your life based on 30 pages of dialogue,” she added. “That’s a little scary.”

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