'And Just Like That' Star Karen Pittman Reacts to Being Miranda's Original Love Interest (Exclusive)
s most controversial storylines involved Miranda Hobbes' (Cynthia Nixon) romance with non-binary comedian Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), the reboot almost went in a different direction. In the HBO Max documentary special about the making of the series, Nixon, who is both a star, producer, and even directed one episode of the show, revealed that originally, the plan for Miranda's character had been that she fell for her professor, Dr. Nya Wallace.ET's Nischelle Turner caught up with Karen Pittman, who plays Nya in, and her co-star, Desean Terry, at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, and had to ask her about the could-have-been romance between her character and Miranda. «Listen, Nischelle, I did not know that. Nobody told me that,» she told ET of the original plan.