Kim Cattrall Talks About 'Sex' and Gaining 15 Pounds

Kim Cattrall is used to the glamour and high fashion of shooting 'Sex and the City,' so she had quite an awakening when she played the anti-Samantha Jones. In 'Meet Monica Velour,' Cattrall plays a washed-up porn star, and director Keith Bearden wanted her to gain a lot of weight for the part.
"He wanted me to gain like 35 pounds. Really, just for health reasons, I couldn't do that. I also didn't have enough time to do it safely with a doctor's care. But what I did was I put on 15 pounds, and that was comfortable. I could do that. I just didn't exercise at all," Cattrall told
NY Magazine.

Of course, Cattrall wasn't fond of her muffin top -- even if it was for her role. "Oh, terrifying, really. Most of the time as an actress, you want to look desirable, you want to be pretty, you want to be sexy, you want to be lit properly -- whereas here, there were days when I didn't even have any makeup on. There were days when they actually changed the light to make me look harder and more overweight or just more f**ked up," she said.
She even avoided the tabloids because she didn't want to know what was being said about her weight gain.
"I didn't see the dailies on it because I thought, 'You know, I've made a stand here that I'm gonna do this in a very truthful way, and if I look at them they might scare me,'" she said.
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Hmmm, usuall trailers contain the BEST part of a movie to generate INTEREST in wanting to see it. Based on what I watched, this movie must be total crap.
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I think they chose this scene only to show her weight gain.
i think this will be a really interesting role to see kim catrall in this movie. im going to see it!
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I thought that she still looked good. I don't think that the 15 pounds did her a disservice at all.
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You are right...the weight didn't hurt at all...She has been really gross for a long time now...ew
Gaining 15 lbs would have put her somewhere around normal.
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wow 15 whole pounds, what an ordeal.
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Hey PopEater staff: Dailies are not tabloids! Can't you at least learn the basic terms of the trade before you crank out another story on the entertainment industry?
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Why couldn't they use a fat suit or a larger actress? Duh!
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I never realized until this how much she looks like Kathleen Turner!
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she is still very pretty - from what I see - probably prettier that most of you guys picking on her
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I LOVE KIM!!!!
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It's a shame the tabloids are always panting to make celebrities look bad...if they don't have something, they make something up...I think she looks great and I hope I age as gracefully....
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