Cynthia Nixon, the actress who played Miranda Hobbes on the iconic TV show Sex and The City has opened up about the things she ‘hated’ about the show loved by so many.
The show is pretty iconic
Sex and The City, which ran for six seasons from 1998 to 2004, is certainly a cultural phenomenon for all those who tuned in around the globe.
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But Cynthia Nixon seems to feel like she would’ve wanted a few things to be different.
Nixon still feels most of it was good
The 59-year-old actress said that 90% of the beloved show was “still pretty good” but that she felt like “certain things have really not aged well.”
Nixon opened up about her feelings towards the show in a conversation published on Monday, May 26, with Grazia.
She revealed exactly what she ‘hated’
Speaking candidly about the show, Nixon said, “It was always very difficult being on a show that was so white. I always hated that. When we would raise it, we were told this is Candace Bushnell’s [the writer of the newspaper column and 1996 book on which the show is based] world and it’s a very white world. ‘I’m like, OK…”
There were other cultural insensitivities she didn’t like
“Some of the trans stuff, some of the gay stuff was a little cringy to look at,” Nixon, who is married to wife Christine Marinoni added.
The show still feels ‘revolutionary’
Despite her criticism of it, Nixon still called the Sex and The City “revolutionary,” telling the publication it was “a feminist show – it’s always been a feminist show.”
“What you have to remember is that we were in our thirties and forties. 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,” she said.
She liked the central message of the show
Nixon went on to explain, “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!’”