Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha Jones in the hit series 'Sex and the City' and now stars in 'The Movie', talks to us about her infamous character.

When playing Samantha were you aware you were becoming a sexual icon for a lot of women?

Kim Cattrall: Wow! (laughs). My goodness, no sort of foreplay here! When playing a character like that every day there's a new script and most of them terrified me. I'd just turned 40 when I started the series and I didn't know if I could play such a sexual, crazed woman because I believe that all those years ago - which is not that many years ago, really - people really did believe that women in their forties weren't very sexy and that women in their twenties and thirties were really beautiful because in their close up they were perfect... desirable. What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

Is Samantha dating younger men in the movie? How do you feel about that?

KC: Most of the men I have gotten to know - and I'm now dating a younger man - they have been raised by some really amazing women who were not at home all the time so they couldn't really be Mommy's boy. They had to get on with it and realise that Mom wasn't going to be there all the time and they like a strong, independent woman. Women now are not giving up girl time, like guys don't give up going to play sports or poker or whatever they do. I think that's really fabulous.

You had some memorable storylines in the show. Which one is your favourite?

KC: Well, the trannies (transvestites) was so great, I just loved that. I also very much liked the firemen episode...

How will the story have moved on from the series? How will it be cinematic?

KC: Well, I think the look of it first of all is really quite gorgeous. I think it does much more location wise and shot wise than we could, time wise on the series. I also think that the four years that we weren't making the show means that Michael [Patrick King, director] had a tremendous amount of time to contemplate it. And with that time came a lot of subtlety.

Did you always believe that the film would happen?

KC: When Chris Albrecht called me last year when I was just about to go to Dublin to do 'My Boy Jack' for ITV, and he said: 'this is a voice from your past, I was in a movie theatre and I was watching 'The Devil Wears Prada' and it was absolutely packed and I looked around and said 'we created this audience'. And I think we really need to do the film.'

And I was floored. All of us had gone in our different directions, had different life paths and leaving the show was really, really hard. Personally it was a very difficult time in my personal life. So I was trying to put a lot of things together. And I'm glad that we didn't do the movie right away because I don't think we would have had any kind of perspective about what was happening to us and what was about to happen. I think it was the perfect time to get back together and do this.

So could there be more films after this?

KC: You know I'm so superstitious. I really want the film to be a big success because I think that we made it for the right reasons -I think the script is really good and the performances and the direction is really great - but ultimately you never know, you just never know. I mean, people might see it and think it's beyond their expectations, or they might see it and say 'oh I preferred the series'. You just don't know. But I'm hoping that it does well. I hope it does lead to more. I don't know, though.

When we left Samantha she was just recovering from breast cancer and in a serious relationship. What's she dealing with in the movie?

KC: Well, I think she is older and that in itself is a huge struggle in our world still. And that's why I am so happy to be of a certain age playing a woman of a certain age. And we kind of changed the way people thought about 40 so

Huge thanks to my mate Gus's mam who smuggled a bag of Wispa's into the country, and gave me one

Noth joins Sex and the City movie

Chris Noth, who played 'Mr Big' in 'Sex and the City', has joined the cast of the eagerly-awaited 'Sex and the City' movie.

Roth joins 'Sex and the City' stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon in the film, which will be written and directed by series veteran Michael Patrick King.

Commenting on Noth's casting, King said: "There is no need for funeral arrangements. I assure you that 'Mr Big' is a very 'big' part of the 'Sex and the City' movie. While I have not spoken to him myself, Chris Noth assures me that 'Mr Big' is alive and well and ready to report to the set in September."