Cynthia Nixon found a number of issues about “Sex and the City” on a latest rewatch.
The actor advised Grazia journal that she rewatched the hit sequence earlier than manufacturing began on “And Just Like That…”
Based on the outlet, Nixon mentioned that 90% of issues have been “still pretty great,” although “certain things have not aged well.”
“It was always very difficult being on a show that was so white. I always hated that,” Nixon shared within the function, printed on Monday. “When we would raise it, we were told: this is Candace Bushnell’s world and it’s a very white world. I’m like, OK…”
Along with the overwhelming whiteness, Nixon defined that “some of the trans stuff, some of the gay stuff was a little cringy to look at.”
However, Nixon identified that the present was nonetheless revolutionary in some ways.
“What you have to remember is that we were in our thirties and forties,” she mentioned.
“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.”
The present additionally projected pretty radical messaging for a single lady, Nixon mentioned.
“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,” she shared. “You were having sex — because you enjoyed having sex!”
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“Sex and the City” wasn’t the one present within the late 90s and early 2000s that struggled with a scarcity of range.
Marta Kauffman, one of many co-creators of “Friends,” has since apologized for the present’s concentrate on its six white characters, who not often interacted with different individuals of coloration.
“I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” Kauffman advised the Los Angeles Instances in an interview in 2022. “Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.”
