Cynthia Nixon Thinks SATC’s Miranda Had Many ‘Queer and Lesbianic Qualities’ Before ‘And Just Like That’

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Nearly 11 years after Sex and the City concluded, viewers saw a change in Miranda Hobbes when she planned to split from her longtime husband, Steve Brady, to pursue something new with Che Diaz — though actress Cynthia Nixon asserts that it’s hardly a new character development.“Even though she was only really interested in men [on Sex and the City], I think that Miranda had many other queer and, frankly, lesbianic qualities about her,” the Gilded Age star, 56, told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday, June 1. “And I think for a lot of gay women, she — we didn’t have a gay woman — but she was a stand-in for the gay women we didn’t have.”She continued: “Miranda has always grappled with power, and female power versus male power, and women getting the short end of the stick — and that’s a big issue for women who are queer.

I think not having to be under a man’s thumb has always been one of the very appealing things that being with another woman has to offer.”Nixon worked closely with the HBO Max revival showrunner, Michael Patrick King, to tell an authentic story about Miranda’s coming-out journey.“I was like, ‘Sure, why not,’” the New York native — who publicly came out in 2004 before marrying partner Christine Marinoni in 2012 — told Variety of learning that her character would be exploring her sexuality in the revival, which has been renewed for a second season. “If we’re trying to do different stuff, and show different worlds, and show different aspects of these characters, why not do that?”During a January episode of And Just Like That, Miranda revealed to Steve — with whom she shares son Brady — that she wanted a divorce after falling in love with Che Diaz (Sara Ramírez), a nonbinary comedian who worked with