For Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City would not completely pass the test of time, although it salutes the pioneer side of the series!
For Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City lacked diversity
Pending the 3rd season of the Gilded Age series where she shares the poster with Christine Baranski and Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon returned to Grazia on the series that revealed her. In the very fashionable flagship series by Darren Starr born in 1998, she was Miranda Hobbes, the most skeptical of the girlfriends of the band led by Carrie Bradshaw, alias Sarah Jessica Parker.
Proud of this-fulp series which gave rise to a film and a spin OFF that she made herself, she points to certain aspects which embarrassed her: “It was very difficult to play in such a “white” series. I always hated that! When we tackled the subject, we were told: “It is the universe of Candace Bushnell [qui a signé le recueil de nouvelles à l’origine de la série, ndlr]and his world is very white “. In addition to highlighting this lack of diversity to which she wanted to remedy with the Spin OFF, this activist of LGBTQIA+ rights is also reserved for the representation of this minority: it evokes “certain elements relating to transgender and gays who were a little annoying to look at».
A series that nevertheless had ahead!
If she is lucid about the show’s faults, she also recalls her qualities! At the time of a disturbing masculinist wave, the feminist actress salutes the uninhibited vision of female desire carried by the series: ” We had the right to be a woman and have many sexual relations with lots of different people. It didn’t make you a slut or implied that sex was used to get something. We had sex just because we loved it ! “, She recalled. And the actress to conclude by recalling:”“Sex and the city” remains “a feminist series – it has always been! ». A development that makes you want to review the 6 seasons, available on HBO Max.