Cynthia Nixon is nit-picking “Sex and the City.”
In a brand new interview with Grazia, Nixon, 59, stated that whereas she feels 90% of the beloved HBO sequence is “still pretty great,” she thinks “certain things have really not aged well.”
“It was always very difficult being on a show that was so white. I always hated that,” stated the Miranda Hobbes actress.
“When we would raise it, we were told: this is Candace Bushnell’s world and it’s a very white world. I’m like, OK…,” she added.
Nixon, who has been married to Christine Marinoni since 2012, additionally advised the outlet that “some of the trans stuff, some of the gay stuff was a little cringy to look at.”
“Sex and the City,” created by Darren Starr and based mostly on Bushnell’s newspaper column and guide, aired from 1998 to 2004.
The franchise sparked two movies, launched in 2008 and 2010, and the sequel sequence “And Just Like That” with returning solid members Nixon (Miranda), Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte). “AJLT” additionally options various characters performed by Nicole Ari Parker, Sarita Choudhury and Karen Pittman.
Nixon famous that “Sex and the City” remains to be “a feminist show – it’s always been a feminist show.”
“What you have to remember is that we were in our thirties and forties,” she defined of starring within the sequence. “Of course, I look at the show now, we look like babies, but being single at that age, at that time, still had a kind of stigma.”
“Its central message was unheard of: ‘You can be a woman, you can have a lot of sex with a lot of different people. It didn’t make you a slut and it didn’t mean you were using sex to get something. You were having sex – because you enjoyed having sex!’” Nixon added.
Nixon acknowledged that Miranda initially wasn’t the fan-favorite out of the good friend group (together with Kim Cattrall’s Samantha) as a result of she was “defined by her career and friendships.”
“People used to see her as very didactic and strident and humorless,” Nixon stated.
However in the present day, Nixon believes many extra followers are Crew Miranda.
“Stuff she was ballyhooing from the rooftops, I think, became common wisdom,” she shared. “The culture did sort of move to meet where Miranda was standing. I mean, that has been true in recent history.”
“Of course, in America, and I think in many places, the world is moving again,” Nixon acknowledged. “Away from a lot of the feminist ideas that Miranda had.”
“And Just Like That” Season 3 premieres Thursday on HBO Max.
