Cynthia Nixon was reluctant to join And Just Like That - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity Cynthia Nixon reveals the reason she was persuaded to join And Just Like That By You Magazine - December 29, 2021 Sex and the City’s reboot And Just Like That has seen devoted fans watch and respond in droves, but it turns out one key player in the original series didn’t actually want to return to SATC at all, initially. Getty Actress Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbs, said she was at first ‘very reluctant’ to be part of the new series, and had to be persuaded to reprise her role. ‘I really didn’t think I was going to do it; I was very reluctant,’ Nixon told the Herald Sun, adding that her decision to sign up was ‘very hard.’ Her main reasons, she said, involved the lack of diversity in the original Sex And The City series, which she referred to as ‘occasionally tone deaf on race and gender’. However, Nixon was persuaded by the team’s commitment to tackles these issues. ‘The more I talked to Sarah Jessica [Parker], [writer-creator] Michael Patrick King and Kristin [Davis], about the things that I couldn’t go back without — a real sea change in terms of the lack of diversity in the original series — they were on board’ she added. Getty ‘I was floored by how hard everybody listened and how collaboratively we worked together to not just redecorate the house but to build a whole new house, one that had us in it but new characters, too.’ In keeping with creating a show that accurately reflects modern times, Nixon wanted And Just Like That to reflect how the character’s real lives had changed with age as well. ‘ ‘The characters are 55 so they’re in menopause. And menopause is the punchline to a lot of jokes and certainly has its unpleasant aspects’ said Nixon. ‘But, it’s a time when women have spent decades looking after other people and can again focus on themselves: “Who am I? Who do I want to be?”’ She also added that despite Sex and the City‘s issues, she was forever ‘grateful’ to the show for giving her an ‘adult career’. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved