Though some people weren’t pleased with Miranda Hobbes’ (Cynthia Nixon) storyline on And Just Like That, she is more than satisfied that she got to explore her character again.
“I think that’s a bizarre reaction,” she said of the criticism. “First of all, I think Miranda is brave, and I think Miranda is charging forward. She doesn’t know where she’s going exactly, but she knows she has to go somewhere. And I think that’s always been true of Miranda, right?”
“Miranda’s very smart, and she’s very tenacious, but the idea that she’s levelheaded — she’s never been levelheaded!” she continued. “She’s a loose cannon, a very opinionated loose cannon. She’s always been a bull in a china shop and losing her temper and blowing things up then having to backtrack when she calms down.”
In the series, fans were pleasantly surprised to learn that Miranda’s marriage to Steve (David Eigenberg) is in a rut, so when Che (Sara Ramirez) comes into her life, she finds another part of herself that she didn’t know.
“She gives up her very lucrative corporate job and goes back to try and make something more of her life. As Miranda says: We’re not old, we’re 55. I mean, you’re certainly closer to the end than to the beginning. But if you’re not happy with where you are, you still have a lot of time to make a change,” she said of Miranda’s decision to leave her relationship behind.
Nixon even thinks Che and Miranda’s romance is similar to when Carrie and Mr. Big (Chris Noth) were on and off in the original Sex and the City series.
“It reminds me very much of Carrie and some of her most seminal moments of being in love with Mr. Big and trying to make herself be in love with Aidan but having an affair,” the actress stated. “Like I was saying before, a feminist show shouldn’t be agitprop, it shouldn’t be propaganda showing women as these sensible, wise, kind, attractive people. First of all, who wants to watch that? I don’t want to watch that.”
“It’s to show women and our struggles and our dreams and our foibles. You don’t always know where you’re going,” she added. “Those are the people that I’m interested in, not the people who are playing it safe.”
