Kim Cattrall says 19-hour days on Sex and the City meant she didn’t have time for a baby
'There's just no way, I could have done that in a healthy, emotional, physical, or even physical state,' says actor
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Your support makes all the difference.Kim Cattrall has said that she didn’t have time to have a baby while filming Sex and the City due to the arduous hours.
Speaking on the Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast, the actor explained that motherhood simply wasn’t an option when she was starring in the cult TV show, on which she played Samantha Jones.
“This was 1998, I would have to become a bit of a science experiment,” she said before going on to reference her husband at the time, Mark Levinson, whom she divorced in 2004.
“My partner and I would have to be available to have sex at a certain time. There's just no way I could have done that in a healthy, emotional, physical, or even physical state, and do 19-hour days."
The 64-year-old actor went on to discuss how there were other barriers that would have made it difficult for her to have children.
“So I was also 41. And, and I just thought that I have to make a decision here for my well being,” she said.
"And I love to work, my work has been my passport to my independence and my freedom and my education.
“So the thought of [having children] in my 40s, where the amount of scripts were more than cut in half, because now I was no longer considered the young lady... ”
Cattrall explained how younger women started taking on the roles she was used to playing.
“So that was the system and still is to a great degree,” she said. "But the great thing is that women now are writing great parts for women, and they're in their 60s.
“But at that time, to get a show, like Sex in the City, which had not at the very beginning, but became very much [pro feminist], especially with my character, a feminist stance about sexuality, in particular.”
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