New York, August 14 (ANI): Actress Kim Cattrall surely deserves some accolades for staying on in show business after being rebuked by a Hollywood director as a lousy actress.

In his upcoming biography, "Otto Preminger - The Man Who Would Be King," Foster Hirsch describes how the "Sex and the City" star was berated by director Otto Preminger at the set of her first film, after she failed to perform a nude scene properly.

Otto cast Cattrall at the age of 17 to play one of five nubile young women held for ransom in the nude by Palestinian terrorists in "Rosebud."

"In one shot, Kim had to lean out a window . . . and say some bad dialogue I had written. It was painful," the New York Post quoted Erik Lee Preminger, Otto's son, as saying.

"After making Kim do the shot over and over, Otto said to her, 'Darling, you remind me of Marilyn Monroe - not in looks, of course, but in lack of talent.' I'm amazed Kim stayed in the business," he added. (ANI)