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Is That You, Samantha?

Posted Apr 17, 08 6:55 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Kim Cattrall had to pull a quick-change to start filming the Sex and the City movie: she’d just come off the set of a PBS film in which she played the buttoned-up wife of Rudyard Kipling, the New York Daily News reports. “It was definitely a challenging transition” says the actress, best known for her portrayal of unfettered cougar Samantha Jones.

The TV movie My Boy Jack, which airs Sunday, resonated with Cattrall. “I always was very excited by the whole imperialistic period of the 1890s,” she told the Huffington Post. She also had an ulterior motive: she wanted her nephew, who hopes to fight in Iraq, to see the story of Kipling’s son, who was eager to serve in the First World War. So far, her efforts to dissuade him haven't worked..

Sources New York Daily News, Huffington Post

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Daniel Radcliffe, left, and Kim Cattrall, and David Haig are shown in character on "My Boy Jack."   (AP Photo/PBS, Patrick Redmond)
In this image released by PBS, Kim Cattrall portrays Carrie Kipling in "My Boy Jack."   (AP Photo/PBS, Patrick Redmond)
Actress Kim Cattrall.   (AP Photo/Andy Kropa)
Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes and Kristin Davis as Charlotte York-Goldenblatt in a scene from "Sex and the City."   (AP Photo)
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