-Our next guest is a five-time Emmy-nominated
and Golden Globe Award-winning actress
you know for her portrayal of Samantha Jones
in "Sex and the City." She produces and stars
in the new show "Filthy Rich," which airs Mondays on Fox.
Let's take a look.
-You will give up this MMMA thing.
-MMA? -You are Jesús's only parent.
And if you get hurt, who will he have?
Besides, I would very much like for you
to join my security team.
-She just put you on staff, bro.
-It is an entry-level position that you can build on.
-Jason, wherever he is,
he will close that ganja factory.
And...Ginger. -Here it comes.
-You and your mother, you will leave New Orleans.
You will close that porn site of yours, and you will never,
ever speak to any member of the press ever again.
-Please welcome to the show Kim Cattrall!
Thanks for being here, Kim. How are you?
-I'm great. Nice to see you. -Nice to see you, as well.
And congratulations are in order.
You are a new -- a brand-new U.S. citizen.
-I am, proudly. August 17th, I became a citizen.
I took the test and passed.
There were six -- There were ten questions,
and I got the first six right,
so they said, "Okay, you can become a citizen."
-You really -- You joined us at a great time, Kim.
You really got in while the gettin's good.
-You need my vote. -That's true.
Welcome aboard, and we're very happy to have you.
Before we get to your show,
which I am looking forward to talking about,
we had a mutual friend --
We've talked on this show
about his sad passing due to COVID --
Hal Willner, who was the music supervisor at "SNL."
But I did not realize you were close with Hal, as well.
-Yeah. I met Hal through Lou Reed.
They were doing the radio show together, and we became,
you know, really close within that circle of friends.
He was the first person that we lost to COVID,
so it was really sad.
My partner and I, Russ, we were in New York
till about end of April.
And then we got on a plane and went up to Vancouver Island
where my mom is to make sure she'd be okay.
And I brought this little mini pod
that, Hal, a few birthdays before,
had put over 2,000 songs of his music on for me.
So I felt -- You know, we were all grieving Hal,
but every morning, every afternoon,
I just had his music in the room in the house,
so that was comforting.
-He was a man of so many skills,
but that ability to curate a musical list
based on the taste of his friends was really --
it was -- it was something else.
He will definitely be missed.
You -- You have a wonderful, new show.
You play -- This is about a very rich family in the South
who has a Christian TV network.
And we learn pretty early on -- A lot happens in the pilot.
That the patriarch of this family, your husband,
is maybe not living to the values
that he espouses on television.
-That's right.
-Are you enjoying the show so far?
-Oh, my God, yes. It's great to play a woman,
you know, who has that most feminine of qualities --
balls.
She's very ballsy.
She's very stubborn. She's very controlling.
And I really enjoyed, you know --
I don't know that much about religion per se.
I was never brought up with any religion.
My mother was agnostic.
My dad never really made it to church.
So I wanted to sort of understand more about
what it would be like to be an evangelical.
And I didn't want to do the Tammy Faye routine.
I wanted to make her much more complex than that,
which I hopefully think we have achieved.
-And I know you are a producer on this, as well.
Is it more interesting when you get to have
a say in the character
and make those choices from behind the scenes, as well?
-Oh, it is. I mean, I'm -- I'm a woman of a certain age.
And I didn't want to dumb her down at all.
And I love strong, powerful women.
So I wanted to oversee that. I wanted to have a say in that.
I produced another show called "Sensitive Skin,"
and that was my first producing outing.
And I -- I just loved it.
I really, really enjoyed the creative elements of it.
I didn't have anything to do with the raising of the money
or anything like that,
which I don't think I'd be as good at.
But what -- Creatively, it was --
it was definitely an avenue that I want to pursue further.
-I've heard you say that you were drawn to the character
because it wasn't like anything you'd seen before.
I have to imagine, as an actor, it's so exciting
when you're looking through a script
and you have that realization
that this is not a version of something you're familiar with.
-Absolutely. Especially in your sixties.
You know, I played my first grandmother role
about a year and a half ago.
And, you know, I wanted very much to expound on that
because, as you know, you get older,
you have so many more stories to tell.
You have so much more to give, as far as information.
Not just about yourself but what that age, you know,
entitles you to and the challenges of it.
But for me, I love the camp element of "Filthy Rich."
You know, I love the fact that I could be that theatrical
but also be very subtle at the same time.
This character was very broad but very intricately drawn.
And, so, I read the script that Tate Taylor,
the executive producer and creator of it, sent me.
And the first question that I asked him was,
"What happens next?"
Which is always a really good sign that there's --
you're in new territory.
-You shoot this show in New Orleans.
And I would say food is a really nice part of the show.
Especially, the idea of, like,
how food is a communal experience with family.
-Yes. -And I guess family
is the only place left
we're having communal food experiences.
-Or any kind of communal. -I know, right?
And then, at some point, you realize,
"Oh, there's a reason I went out with people
that weren't my family."
-Yeah. Exactly. -You sort of --
Obviously, it's a great city for food.
And you pulled in a bunch of restaurants and chefs
to be involved in the making of the show.
Were they enthusiastic to be part of it?
-Oh, my God, yes.
I mean, and there's -- there's so much to the cuisine.
I had no idea what a hummingbird cake was.
I'd never heard of a hummingbird cake or any of those things.
So, I'd been to New Orleans, but I never really experienced
what it's really like to live there.
We were -- In the first season,
we were there for about seven months all in total.
And it's -- it's friendly.
It's welcoming. It's crazy and zany.
But it also has this little bit of danger to it,
and I'm not just talking spices.
-Lastly, I did not know this about you.
This was a real unknown fact for me.
That you are a fan of the Premier League.
Not only that, but you --
A second congratulations in order.
You support Liverpool, who won the Premier League last year.
Congratulations again.
-We are -- We are the champions. Thank you.
Now, I just have a question for you.
How did West Ham happen? -Yeah.
It's a really good question.
I was -- This is a true story, though -- I was in --
I was doing a show in London in late -- in the late '90s.
And I wanted to see a Premier League game.
And I went to a ticket agent, and it was that or Arsenal.
And you could argue I made a terrible choice.
-Well, I think you made two terrible choices.
-[ Laughs ] But I think --
I think I deserve credit for sticking with my bad choice
because -- -You do. You do.
That's commendable.
You know, when you are born in Liverpool
and both of your parents are Liverpudlian,
you're either for Everton or you're a Red.
And my dad was a Red. So you have no choice.
-You had no choice.
I have a very similar thing with my father and --
and the Pittsburgh Steelers. I will say this.
West Ham is playing Everton on Wednesday.
So maybe you could at least root for me, then.
-Okay. -[ Laughter ]
-How dare you. You know what? You're a bad winner.
You're the champion, and you should be nicer to people like me.
-We've waited a long time. -You -- And it's well-deserved.
Thank you for being here. It's lovely to talk to you.
-Oh, pleasure. Thanks so much.