I’m a huge Mr Big fan, he was a great character, perfect casting, and I connected with the part on quite a few levels, even one of my ex-girlfriends called me that. Anyway…
It looks like the much touted movie of the excellent series Sex and the City is back on. HBO were working on it last year but it all fell through, and according to Moviehole that was down to Kim Cattrall.
Cattrall decided she’d rather frost sponge cake than get her gear off for a big-screen Samantha outing again, so it didn’t come together.
To Cattrall’s credit, she apparently didn’t want to committ to a film until she was shown a script. “She would have loved to have done the movie and made a deal to do the movie, but waited as long as possible with no script or start date and felt she had to take other offers that were presented to her after the hold period had passed,” Cattrall’s spokeswoman Marvet Britto said last year. “Kim would of course love to do the film and would be happy to revisit the project in the future.”
Well to be fair to her she was appearing in the West End of London on stage for sometime, so maybe they just couldn’t get a script together, she saw other work and she wanted to go back to the stage for a while. Sounds like a good decision to me, I’d rather work than wait for something to happen which had so far failed to.
However, looks like she’s now ready to look at it again, as they say that E Online is suggesting that Cattrall is reconsidering the idea. Perhaps they now have a decent proposition together and she’s interested.
I’m not sure how the movie format would suit the show. It was designed and delivered around that 50 minute package and worked wonderfully well for that. The big cliffhangers were always around Carrie and Mr Big and a weeks wait to find out, if not the whole series. What’s the feeling out there for a City movie?
** Update **
Just had a shower and was listening to Radio 1 who just happened to be interviewing Cattrall. That was a nice shower with her sexy voice in there with me. She said that talk of the movie was on as long as the script was good and that the pay deals were sorted out.
She said that the pay wasn’t fair even among the actors and it was working out that some people were getting far more out of it than others who brought just as much to the series. Interesting.
Two ways you could read that. First, she’s being really fair and looking out for those other actors and actresses, or secondly she’s one of those that is getting paid less.
