While "Sex and the City" ended up becoming the show that made Nixon a star (and an Emmy winner), she had nearly zero expectations for it when she signed on.

"It was a really off-kilter show," she explains. "It was on HBO. There weren't really shows on HBO at that point. The Sopranos hadn't happened. It was not like anything else, and the pilot, in particular, was very dark and cynical."



But Nixon realized the show was a veritable phenomenon when she and her three costars appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline, "Who Needs a Husband?" in 2000.

"We left the entertainment world and we went into this greater zeitgeist," she notes.





Over the years, Miranda Hobbes has changed quite a bit, now identifying as queer after pursuing a relationship with Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez) on sequel series "And Just Like That..."

Fans of the series will remember that Miranda once experimented with being a lesbian but decided it was not for her. For Nixon, who has had long-term relationships with both men and women, it seemed a perfectly reasonable pivot.

"She gave it the old college try and she kissed the girl in the elevator, but it was like, 'nope,'" Nixon reflects. "But the fact that you kissed one person and you don't feel anything, and then you kiss another and you do at a totally different time of your life, that doesn't seem strange to me. But we always used to say back in the old days that Samantha and Miranda were kind of the guys, and Carrie and Charlotte were kind of the girls."

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