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.”
02.02.2022 - 05:05 / justjared.com
Willie Garson sadly passed away last year after making a brief appearance in Sex & The City reboot series, And Just Like That.
Executive producer Michael Patrick King opened up about his role in an interview with Variety, and the original plans for Willie‘s character Stanford Blatch.
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In the series, Stanford abruptly decides to divorce husband Anthony [Mario Cantone] and move to Tokyo to manage a rising TikTok star. However, Michael revealed that his arc was going to be different.
“Stanford was going to have a midlife crisis,” he said.
“Stanford’s character always had a borderline career as a manager, and we were like going to explore the fact that it wasn’t a real career. It was going to be Carrie [Sarah Jessica Parker] and him, feeling the shifts. Anthony and him were probably going to have split anyway,” he continued.
“Then we would keep both of them in, and everybody would be relieved that they were divorced because it was not pleasant for anybody. But there was a series of really fun, flirty, hilarious confidante scenes with Carrie that I loved. That old, old, very specific chemistry that Carrie and Stanford have, which is based totally on the uniqueness of Willie and Sarah Jessica’s history,” he added.
He also explained how they wrote off Willie‘s character.
“Life and death is one thing in fiction: When it’s real, it’s not funny or cute. I didn’t want to even flirt narratively with cute business about where he is. I knew the audience would never invest in it, because they knew he was never coming back. It’s the most threadbare writing I’ve ever done just to move him along without much maneuvering, because it was just so sad. There was no way I could write myself out of that in any
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.”
A post shared by Nathen Garson (@nathen_garson)«I love you so much papa. Rest In Peace and I'm so gad you got to share all your adventures with me and were able to accomplish so much,» the caption read in part.
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Cynthia Nixon, went from being ambitious in her career and somewhat settled in her marriage to Steve Brady (David Eigenberg) to pushing her career to the back burner and falling for Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), a non-binary, semi-celebrity comedian. The plot for the beloved character has been polarizing, to say the least, with Nixon publicly defending Miranda's journey multiple times. In a new documentary special, which was released by HBO Max on the same day as the show's season 1 finale, Nixon reveals that Miranda actually had an entirely different love interest when the reboot was first conceived. «Originally, when [showrunner] Michael [Patrick King] was trying to think about what would happen in our season, he talked about Nya, Miranda's professor being the romantic relationship,» Nixon shares, referencing Professor Nya Wallace, played by Karen Pittman. «Nya was a straight character and Miranda's a straight character and I was like, 'Well, that doesn't sound very sexy at all.' Two women who've gotten to this age and who are now just fumbling around.
Cynthia Nixon, went from being ambitious in her career and somewhat settled in her marriage to Steve Brady (David Eigenberg) to pushing her career to the back burner and falling for Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez), a non-binary, semi-celebrity comedian. The plot for the beloved character has been polarizing, to say the least, with Nixon publicly defending Miranda's journey multiple times. In a new documentary special, which was released by HBO Max on the same day as the show's season 1 finale, Nixon reveals that Miranda actually had an entirely different love interest when the reboot was first conceived. «Originally, when [showrunner] Michael [Patrick King] was trying to think about what would happen in our season, he talked about Nya, Miranda's professor being the romantic relationship,» Nixon shares, referencing Professor Nya Wallace, played by Karen Pittman. «Nya was a straight character and Miranda's a straight character and I was like, 'Well, that doesn't sound very sexy at all.' Two women who've gotten to this age and who are now just fumbling around.
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Mario Cantone is reflecting on his time filming and saying goodbye to the late Willie Garson. Cantone's Anthony Marentino and Garson's Stanford Blatch had quite the journey in the couple of episodes they were together before Garson devastating death. The actor opened up about being on set the day after Garson died, and filming his divorce scene with Sarah Jessica Parker.«It was very sad, and it was filmed before Willie passed.
get back on your Peloton, a second season of the critically panned “And Just Like That” looks set to hit small screens.After Page Six last week reported that the likelihood of the HBO Max “Sex and the City” revival being renewed was “high,” Sarah Jessica Parker has confirmed she’s spoken with executive producer Michael Patrick King about making a start on Season 2. “Michael and I spoke two weeks ago, and said: ‘OK, when are we going to talk about this?’ ” Parker, 56, told Variety on Tuesday.
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executive producer, writer and director Michael Patrick King is talking about beloved late actor Willie Garson, and his original plans for Garson's character in the revival before the actor's devastating death.Garson, who played Carrie Bradshaw's best friend Stanford Blatch, had been battling pancreatic cancer and died in September at 57 years old. As viewers found out in the fourth episode of the new HBO Max series, Stanford abruptly decided to get a divorce from his husband, Anthony, and moved to Tokyo to manage a 17-year-old TikTok star.