Cynthia Nixon and More ‘And Just Like That’ Stars Respond to Meghan McCain’s Criticism of Show

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Standing their ground. Cynthia Nixon and more of the And Just Like That cast brushed off Meghan McCain‘s criticism that the Sex and the City revival was ruined by its “wokeness.”“[Sex and the City] became so beloved … I feel like people have watched it, and they know it so well, inside and out.

Because people know it so well, they have enshrined it in nostalgia,” Nixon, 55, said during a Radio Andy interview on Saturday, February 19. “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.”Nicole Ari Parker, who plays newcomer Lisa Todd Wexley on the HBO Max series, added that she feels as though “comments like that say more about the person saying them” than about the show itself.Host Andy Cohen specifically called out a column that McCain, 37, wrote for the Daily Mail in December 2021, in which she slammed AJLT‘s “clumsy attempt to reformat SATC into the woke and puritanical times we are living in.” The former View panelist continued by referencing Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her new job as the host of a podcast about sex and relationship.“Carrie now plays the part of the ‘cisgender woman’ on a podcast with younger cohosts.

One of them is — of course — queer and nonbinary. Because it’s so boring and unevolved to be a straight white woman,” McCain wrote, claiming that “entire plot lines” were dedicated toward “microagressions” and issues of race. “I don’t know who to blame, the writers of the show or this particularly stupid and repressive time we are living in.”She concluded: “Wokeness kills everything and I am disappointed to tell you