Cattrall feels marginalised

The Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall finds it hard winning roles now she is 54, as casting directors are keen to get her to play characters who are like man eater Samantha Jones, who she plays in the hugely successful TV show.
She said, “Nobody wants to hire me unless I’m playing Samantha Jones. Do you know what it’s like to be 54 and marginalised? It doesn’t get any easier as you get older.” Samantha admits prejudice in Hollywood is nothing new to her and she has found it hard to break away from “sexualised” roles ever since she started getting her first jobs, usually as sexy girls, in films such as Mannequin and Porky’s in the 1980s.
She added to Reveal magazine, “I’ve been sexualised since I was a young actress. If you want to get work as an actress, and not as a waitress, you get sexualised. I think that can be part of your journey, going through the Hollywood mill. It is something I’ve been experiencing in one way or another in my entire career.”
Kim, who is half English, said she has found a better attitude in Europe, where she has received wide praise for her role in London play Private Lives and in European shot thriller The Ghost.
Source: The Asian Age