Kim Cattrall has talked about having to gain weight for a new role.
The 'Sex and the City' star had to put on 15 pounds for her part in a new independent film, 'Meet Monica Velour'.
Cattrall told New York Magazine: "He (director Keith Bearden) was very adamant about me gaining a lot of weight. He wanted me to gain like 35 pounds!"
The actress didn't have time to gain that much weight, she explained: "I didn't have enough time to do it safely with a doctor's care. But what I did was I put on fifteen pounds, and that was comfortable. I could do that. I just didn't exercise at all."
Cattrall also revealed that it was difficult to watch herself on screen in her new role.
"Most of the time as an actress, you want to look desirable, you want to be pretty, you want to be sexy, you want to be lit properly - whereas here there were days when I didn't even have any makeup on," she revealed.
"There were days when they actually changed the light to make me look harder and more overweight."
