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please, get into melody’s dress… hunnny
Kim Cattrall’s a long way from Fifth Avenue in her new film ‘Meet MonicaVelour.’ The ‘Sex and the City’ icon is in the middle of a surprisingcareer move, trading in her Manolos to play a broken-down porn star. Butthis isn’t the first time Cattrall’s avoided being pigeonholed. Asfeminist icon Samantha Jones, she narrowly escaped the humiliatingpurgatory of roles for middle-aged women, yet it’s been seven yearssince she and her small-screen counterparts left HBO. Her next step?Casting off every remnant of glamour to portray a meth-snorting,biker-snogging, aging ’70s porn actress in writer-director KeithBearden’s indie debut, released this weekend in New York and LosAngeles. It’s a semi-sweet coming-of-age story for her character Monicaand her oddball teenage fan (Dustin Ingram) who finds her at her trailerpark. It also shows the world a side of Cattrall we’ve never seen before- makeup-less and carrying an extra 20 pounds. “I’ve been marginalizedin some ways, too,” she confessed to The Daily Beast’s Gina Piccalo. Herlatest role is a small but powerful one, and does plenty to erase anymemories of her cosmo-swilling, man-eating alter-ego.
