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from www.nydailynews.com – The name of director Keith Bearden’s first feature-length film is “Meet Monica Velour,” but it really should be “Meet Kim Cattrall.”

The 54-year-old actress — best known as Samantha Jones in the “Sex and the City” franchise, which ran on TV from 1998-2004 and produced two movies — puts on an image-altering performance as an aging porn star who befriends a lonely teenage fan.

Cattrall says she hopes the role of Monica Velour, for which she gained 15 pounds and tragically cut her hair, will prove to America that she’s an actress, not just a character.

In your first feature film, how did you get Kim Cattrall on board?

Keith Bearden: “We’re proud New Yorkers, so we met over lunch at a Thai restaurant in midtown and had a great time going over the script. She was smart and funny and really understood the script. Then I said, ‘The only qualm with you is that you are the best-looking 50-year-old woman in America, and this is a character that has had a rough life and doesn’t take care of herself. For the realism I can’t have you looking the way you look now, in this movie. No gym arms. It would just be too Hollywood, too fake.'”

Kim Cattrall: “Originally he wanted me to gain 35 pounds, but I couldn’t do it in the time period that we had, so I gained 15 pounds by eating bar food and drinking whatever I wanted. Then I would go to bed. The deal was no exercise. It was great. I could say that I was doing this for my work.”

Bearden: “She also transformed how she carried her body. Normally, Kim carries herself very regally. She’s a very sophisticated woman. Monica, on the other hand, was supposed to look like a pissed-off Catholic high-school girl. So she slouches and her legs are always spread and her posture is really bad. Kim had to get massages and see a chiropractor after we were done filming.”

Were you worried about Samantha creeping into the film?

Cattrall: “This might be breaking news for some people, but I’m not Samantha Jones. I’m paid to play the role and I love doing it, but as soon as they say cut I’m not Samantha anymore.”

Bearden: “I knew this was going to change what people who only know you as Samantha think of you. It’s going to blow Samantha to tiny little pieces. I knew Kim’s background and I knew she did a lot of serious theater and she was getting pigeonholed as this one character. These people confuse the performer and the character. Here was her chance to do something completely different.”

Cattrall: “Some actors don’t want that chance because it’s scary. That’s what you are known for. That’s your bread and butter, and you enjoy doing it and it’s easy. But at the same time, for me, I don’t really have a choice. Working with somebody like Keith on a movie like this is just too much fun. I don’t want to miss it.”

What does this movie say about the sexuality of older women?

Bearden: “America is a very strange, young country. It is very important for women to be sexy and desirable. We have all these huge industries of fashion and porn and entertainment based on sexy stars.

But while it is such an important part of a woman’s identity, there is an expiration date, and by the age of 40 we kick them off a cliff. They are a mom now or a crazy aunt. They are no longer sexy and they are not supposed to have desire. Women lose that part of their identity. Why? A woman in her 40s and 50s is still capable of desire, is still capable of being loved and loving, and all those things that we have a hard time swallowing.”

Cattrall: “Now that I’m in my early 50s it’s a constant battle. I see some of these blogs and it is not just repulsion, it’s also that they are really angry that I am aging. Being in the public eye, I am not allowed to age. At the same time, if I want to do something about it, which most of us are terrified to do, then that’s ridiculed and I am a freak. How do you win and just exist?

“I think that’s one of the reasons over the past six years, since the ‘Sex and the City’ series ended, that I’ve been working so much in Europe, because I think that people wanted me to do one thing here in America and that’s reserved for a specific age group that I am no longer part of. In my 40s I was pushing it. Now that I’m in my 50s, forget about it, it’s over.”

Bearden: “Let’s face it, as men, we are all going to get old if we are lucky and we are still going to want to have sex. That’s not going to always be with a 24-year-old. We are going to have to love women who are in their 50s, 60s and 70s. Why is that not talked about in society? People are upset that this movie is about a teenage boy and a 50-year-old woman, but I think they are really more upset about the 50-year-old woman than the teenage boy.”