kim in the city

I hope everyone enjoyed reading my colleague Tina's interview with Kim Cattrall in today's Echo.
I didn't realise the Sex and the City sexpot had an auntie who lived in Aigburth or who worked in M&S in Church Street.
The 51-year-old speaks about how she'd love to do something in Liverpool.
Well, it could have been sooner than we thought because I understand that when the Royal Court was looking at the casting for its latest show - Misery - which opens next week, it considered Cattrall for the role of pyscho ex-nurse Annie Wilkes.
In fact, the theatre actually opened tentative talks with Cattrall's agents, but they came to nothing....this time at least.
Cattrall has done dowdy(ish) before - in last year's My Boy Jack on TV. But the role in Misery, made famous by Kathy Bates, would have taken her about as far from Sex and the City's Samantha as you can imagine.
As it is, the marvellous Joan Kempson will be playing psycho opposite Drew Schofield when Misery opens at the Royal Court on Saturday.