📺 Cynthia Nixon Says This Part Of 'Sex And The City' Has "Really Not Aged Well"

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Emma Gillespie is here.

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Hello Emma, Hello, Well Jonesy's favorite TV show is back
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season three is coming to Max.

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This is, of course, the Sex.

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And the City reboot, and we have this new interview
from Cynthia Nixon. She reveals what she kind of hated
about the show and what hasn't aged well. Cynthia Nixon
plays Miranda, the kind of iconic character who sort of
ironically is now of cult status. She's a lawyer, she's
the kind of funny, cynical one. But she wasn't really

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anyone's favorite back in the day. But I think she
has become a really significant character of the show. But
she's explained what it's like portraying the character through a
twenty twenty five lens and what parts of the original
show don't sit so well anymore so. She said, some
of the gay stuff, some of the trance stuff, it's
a little cringey to look at now. But what I
really liked about this interview with Grazia uk is that

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she was quite refreshing about that nostalgic element.

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She really defended a lot of elements of the show.

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I think sometimes we hear these actors look back on
those shows from the nineties and noughties and they're kind
of like, oh, I wouldn't hold up today. I have
wret doing it, but she sort of stood by. It's
always been a feminist show. She said that when it
first aired in nineteen ninety eight that its message was groundbreaking.
She said women that women could be single in their
thirties and forties have sex because they wanted to, not
because they were chasing marriage, and still be the heroes

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of their own stories was a revolutionary idea at the time.

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And I think she's right, Matt. I loved it when
it first started. I loved it.

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And also, we as a society have marched alongside the
changing storylines, and she's talking about we all look back
through a different lens.

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But that's the point.

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Yeah, and her character, I mean, continues to hold up
nearly thirty years on.

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She's a bit of a life rod.

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Now, this Miranda journey that we've all kind of gone
on with that character, and I think that has to
speak to the integrity of the show in its original form.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
She did touch on that the cast.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
She didn't say specifically who we know that there's this
famous beef between Sarah, Jessica Parker and Think Control, but
she said that some of the cast members often raised
concerns about there not being enough diversity culturally on the show.
She said, we always hated that it was so white,
but we were always told it's based on a book
by Candice Bushnell and that's her world. It's a white world,

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and the actors just kind of had to say, Okay,
so interesting to hear a talk about that. But apparently
this season on IM just like that. We can expect
Miranda will be dating again. The last two seasons she's
been with this character, This non binary character, Jay Diaz,
sparked a lot of debate amongst fans, but she said,
a feminist show doesn't show women being perfect.

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If we're just going to play it safe and nice,
why are you sorry? What's the non binary forgot?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
They gender fluid identity not your thing.

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There's a lot going.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
On, but I think if that makes you uncomfortable, you know,
this is a show that he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Make me uncomfortable. I just don't have time for it.
You you, But if that makes one uncomfortable, I wouldn't
be disrespectful having said that.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
But if I did, if I did for some reason,
you know, misspeak about it.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Apologies before it happens, is what I'm saying. I think
I wasn want you to try your best.

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And on the other side of the sky. When I
went to New York a number of years ago, I
went to the shop that the designer who's who has designed.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
All their clothes, Patricia Field.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
She had an amazing shop and I bought an enormous
necklace that had smurfs, enormous smooth dolls all around it.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I don't know what's happened to that. I wish I
still had that next That shot.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Closed recently, but it was a bit of a museum, yeah,
and I think the sixties, and it was kind of
a safe space for all of the colorful figures of
New York City.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
An amazing story. Patricia Fields smurf necklace.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's where you go.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Look on the Urban Dictionary for that. Well, thank you,
am

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Thank you such a carrying that docy you can catch
it on HBO max