Cynthia Nixon On How The Women Of ‘The Gilded Age’ Paved The Way For ‘Sex And The City’
deadline.comCynthia Nixon will be playing another New York City singleton in the upcoming HBO series , a period drama from Julian Fellowes that’s been dubbed, the American Downton Abbey.What will become clear from the premiere episode on Jan.
24 is that Nixon’s character Ada Brook paved the way in her sensible shoes in 1882 so the ladies of Sex and the City—including her Miranda Hobbes— could strut in Manolos through those same streets over a century later.“I think that Ada could not even imagine a world in which someone like Miranda Hobbes would exist,” Nixon shared with Deadline. “Ada is the youngest child in the family and she’s been taken care of almost like an object.
I think the thing that is true of Ada is she’s very tender and she’s very, very fearful. She didn’t have anybody to instill her with dreams for herself.
And so, her dreams are very small. But what we say at the beginning of the show is that even if she can’t dream for herself, she can dream for her young niece.”The lives of Ada and her sister Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) are turned upside down with the arrival of their niece Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), who left Pennsylvania after the death of her father left her penniless.Agnes is old school and very set in her ways.
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