Cynthia Nixon defends SATC reboot after ‘too woke’ criticism

Cynthia Nixon has defended the Sex and the City reboot after the show was slammed for becoming “too politically correct”.

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Meghan McCain recently joined the Sex And the City fans taking issue with the apparently “woke” turn its reboot And Just Like That took — and now the cast has responded to the former daytime host’s critiques, reports Page Six.

Addressing claims from McCain that the show has become “too politically correct,” Cynthia Nixon — who plays Miranda Hobbes — told Andy Cohen flatly on his Sirius XM show Saturday, “I disagree.”

“Because people know it so well,” she explained, “they have enshrined it in nostalgia.

“But this is a show that has always pushed every kind of boundary. I think that that’s what’s so magnificent about the new show — about how many different directions we’re going with that, and pushing boundaries and shaking people up.

“And most importantly, shaking the characters up,” Nixon, 55, added. “We don’t want to see these characters … comfortable. We want to see them out of their comfort zones.”

Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbes, disagrees the reboot is too politically correct. Picture: Kena Betancur / AFP

In her December Daily Mail column, McCain, 37, slammed the show’s “clumsy attempt to reformat … into the woke and puritanical times we are living in.”

“Carrie now plays the part of the ‘cisgender woman’ on a podcast with younger co-hosts. One of them is — of course — queer and nonbinary. Because it’s so boring and unevolved to be a straight white woman,” McCain added.

“I don’t know who to blame, the writers of the show or this particularly stupid and repressive time we are living in.

“Wokeness kills everything and I am disappointed to tell you that And Just Like That is another victim of Hollywood trying to placate a specific audience and not the original one, which was made it [sic] a hit in the first place,” she concluded her column.

Nixon said it was magnificent the show pushed boundaries. Picture: Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Cast newbie Nicole Ari Parker also isn’t buying what McCain’s selling.

“Comments like that say more about the person saying them,” Parker, 51, told Cohen, adding, “What’s too much? Maybe in your living room or when you step outside, it looks the same as inside, and you go to the grocery store and it’s the same. Maybe it is too much for you. For these characters in New York City, it’s not.”

“I can’t think of another situation where someone has done that with a show,” Kristin Davis, 56, added. “People don’t know how to think about it … It gives so much possibility and we are living in a different time.”

This article originally appeared on Page Six and was reproduced with permission.

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