Kim Cattrall was always distinctly different to her Sex and the City character.

The 69-year-old actress played the sex-obsessed Samantha Jones on the hit TV show between 1998 and 2004, but Kim admits that she's very different to her on-screen character.

She told People: "I remember in particular, doing that series, people wanted to speak to the character as opposed to me because she was fascinating, wonderful, smart and intelligent and sexy and irreverent and all of those wonderful things that we could be. But she wasn’t me."

Kim also admits that her life is very different these days, having consciously withdrawn from the bright lights of Hollywood.

The actress shared: "I have a home on Vancouver Island, which is my hideaway and basically my paradise because I’m right in the middle of

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