Kim Cattrall: "I'm trying to find out what's at the end of it"

June 14, 2016 9:15 AM

An interview with Q's Shad, on telling the story of facing midlife, as a woman (CBC) Kim Cattrall discusses working through her own questions around mortality through her remake of the BBC series Sensitive Skin.
posted by cotton dress sock (16 comments total)

I haven't seen either series yet. I happened upon this interview, and thought Kim Cattrall was wonderful. ~ 25 mins.
posted by cotton dress sock at 9:16 AM on June 14, 2016

Kim Cattrall, Kim Cattrall,
Kim Kim Kim Kim Kim Cattrall.
You were in "Mannequin," and that was a really good movie
Kim Cattrall, Kim Cattrall,
Kim Cattrall, Kim Caaaattraaaaa-halll!
Kim Cattrall, Kim Cattrall,
Kim Cattrall, Kim Cattrall,
Kim Cattrall, Kim Cattrall,
Kim Kim Kim Cattrall.
You've never made a bad film.
Oh, What the hell, ring my bell.
Let's go to The Dells.
Our relationship will gel.
I like your smell, you're really swell.
(as Charlton Heston) I'm Charlton Heston for Con-Tel.
I love you, Kiiiiiiiim-
(spoken, slyly) I liked your dress at the Ace awards-
(singing) Caaaattraaaaaaaall
posted by SansPoint at 9:20 AM on June 14, 2016 [9 favorites]

Should probably be Sensitive Skin
posted by Going To Maine at 9:43 AM on June 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Thanks, and sorry. I have no idea why I did that (tired but still :/). The show's called "Sensitive Skin".
posted by cotton dress sock at 9:46 AM on June 14, 2016

Mod note: Swapped in the correct name; carry on.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 9:52 AM on June 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

I have a fond memory of the time I happened to catch an interview between Kim Cattrall and Ben Mulroney on TV. Ben Mulroney has pretty much zero ability to conduct a good interview -- he's so vapid he brings nothing to the table, and his guests are usually clearly just suffering through the whole experience -- and I ordinarily would never watch him but was channel surfing and thought it was worth while to pause long enough to see what Cattrall had to say, because I find her intelligent and interesting and very forthright about it. She gave him kind of a hard time, which was very enjoyable. He tried to reference her being "of a certain age" in a very awkward, inept way, and she said, "I'm in my fifties. You can say it," and she then talked about the decreased opportunities for older actresses and volunteered some thoughts on how the cruelty of people's comments about aging actors stemmed from their being reminded of their own mortality. This is basically how the interview went -- the best moments were moments she said something of her own accord, because Ben never asked her any interesting questions. At the end she got in a dig about his father. I then congratulated myself on having paused on that channel.
posted by orange swan at 10:13 AM on June 14, 2016 [14 favorites]

I'd say her resume as an actress consists of a lot of guilty pleasures for me, but I don't believe in guilty pleasures. I really, genuinely, without shame, enjoy Porky's, Police Academy, and Mannequin, and I think everybody loves Big Trouble. She's not a showy actress, but she somehow always manages to be exactly right for every role she appears in, even when they are very different, which shows genuine, if unflashy, talent. If attractive actresses were respected in the same way as craggy actors, she'd be recognized as a very skilled character actress, and her skill would what she is celebrated for, rather than her attractiveness, and there would still be plenty of work for her.

And there is a long list of actresses I could say this about.
posted by maxsparber at 10:49 AM on June 14, 2016 [10 favorites]

You were in "Mannequin," and that was a really good movie

The sketch in question.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:35 AM on June 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

I like her. She cool.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:01 PM on June 14, 2016

(Anyone else have Claudia O'doherty's Kim Catrall impression from CBB in their head now?)
posted by kittensofthenight at 1:34 PM on June 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

You all are leaving out the best part.

Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm
posted by bukvich at 2:38 PM on June 14, 2016

I like her. She cool.

Yeah, me too. I mean I only watched a few episodes of SATC, but I was looking for stuff to watch, and saw this interview among many. I was interested in the question of how someone so closely identified with a certain kind of sexuality might face the question of aging. Looks like, she takes it on.

I liked what she said about wanting to show what it is to be a middle-aged woman considering her neck in a mirror, and to frame that moment as something beautiful, instead of turning her into a joke or caricature. I'm interested in seeing how she did it, will check out this show.
posted by cotton dress sock at 3:30 PM on June 14, 2016

At the end she got in a dig about his father.

Heh. Considering that Cattrall had been romantically linked to Pierre Trudeau, I hope she got in less a dig and more like a good satisfying knife-twisting. (God I hate the Mulroneys.)
posted by hangashore at 3:54 PM on June 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

I love Kim Cattrall in everything she's in, and the thing I love about her most is that she always looks like she's having so much fun, no matter what she's doing or who she's talking to. Maybe she's just terrific at pretending she's a blast to hang out with, but I'm betting she's just a riot.
posted by xingcat at 4:05 PM on June 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

There's an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? about her family and it's fascinating. I think she ended up having secret cousins in Australia that nobody knew anything about.

Also: "Don't worry, it's only me, Gracie Law!"
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 6:56 PM on June 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

Not that we NEED an American version of Miss Fisher's Mysteries, but it occurs to me that Cattrall would make a great American Phryne Fisher.
posted by papercake at 7:30 PM on June 14, 2016 [6 favorites]