Cynthia Nixon was ‘very reluctant’ to do ‘And just like that…”
“I really don’t think I’ll do it – I’m very reluctant,” she said. “But the more I talked to Sarah Jessica, [writer-creator] Michael Patrick King and Kristin [Davis], about the stuff I couldn’t go back to without – a real twist on the lack of diversity in the original series, they were on board. “
It turns out that while Nixon said she was “very proud of the original series,” she also found it “sometimes to be racially and gender-impaired.”
But she was convinced to return after seeing the plot changes, including the addition of new characters and the chance to focus on the lives of women in their 50s – not at all. popular things on television.
“The characters are 55 years old, so they’re going through menopause,” Nixon said. “But it’s a time when women who have spent decades taking care of others can focus again on themselves: who am I? Who do I want to be?”