Cynthia Nixon Says ‘And Just Like That’ Writers Add ‘Elements’ of Stars’ Real Lives to Series

Cynthia Nixon trusts nan “And Just Like That…” imaginative squad to propulsion successful nan actresses’ existent life experiences erstwhile crafting nan series. While Nixon has directed 3 episodes and serves arsenic an executive shaper — arsenic do co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis — she leaves nan penning to nan writers.

“The writers whitethorn take to adhd elements of each of our experiences,” Nixon said successful an interview pinch Variety. “Michael Patrick King evidently knows america very well, arsenic do nan different writers, peculiarly Elisa Zuritsky and Julie Rottenberg, who were location connected nan original show.”

Season 3 of nan “Sex and nan City” sequel bid has Nixon’s Miranda getting backmost into nan making love world, including a tryst pinch nary different than Rosie O’Donnell. After having to thrust affectional ups and downs, peculiarly successful nan show’s first season, Nixon said that “it was nosy to return a breather.”

“Our show, whether it’s nan aged show aliases nan existent show, is astir quintessentially itself erstwhile group are having unspeakable making love experiences,” she explained. Nixon called Miranda’s 3rd play stories a “throwback” to her “Sex and nan City” days, conscionable making love a different gender.

“When Miranda was making love backmost successful nan day, it often didn’t spell well, but astatine slightest she was not retired of practice. Now, she’s ace retired of practice. She’s making love an wholly different benignant of person. And it’s a brave caller world of intersexual politics; connected making love apps, everything is different. So it felt really fun. Miranda is truthful focused connected her competence, truthful it’s ever nosy to plop her into a business successful which she is reasonably incompetent,” Nixon related.

The character is pulling double-duty connected HBO Max currently, pinch not only caller episodes of “And Just Like That…” airing done July 31, but a the 3rd outing of “The Gilded Age” launching Sunday, June 22 (tonight!). The first section of nan play premiered astatine nan Tribeca Film Festival connected June 12 (and IndieWire’s Ben Travers liked it).

Nixon, whose profession besides included a New York gubernatorial successful 2018, told IndieWire successful 2022 that she modeled her “Gilded Age” characteristic Ada connected her ain grandmother, Violt Dennison.

“Denny was an enthusiastic personification who had each sorts of interests, traveled everywhere, and knew really to alert a level arsenic a young woman,” she explained. She had men that she was successful emotion with, but it ne'er worked out. Denny would say, ‘As you property arsenic an unattached woman, you go much and much invisible successful gatherings.’ But she was a personification who had an tremendous liking successful young people.”